Applied Bacterial Control Ltd — Exeter Vet Digital Visibility Score

Digital Visibility Score: 46 / 100 · Rank 19 of 21

Digital Visibility Score46/100Rank 19 of 21Problems found1The site has not changed in a long timeFurthest behind-24Local presence: 44 against a sector median of 68

Measured 1 September 2026 via the PYC Exeter Vet Digital Visibility Index. Every figure is objective and reproducible from the methodology. Spotted an error? Request a correction.

Pillar breakdown vs sector median

Each pillar scored 0–100 against the sector median for this index. The final column is this firm's distance from that median.

Pillar	Score	Median	vs median
Speed & CWV	61	66	−5
Technical	100	88	+12
Local presence	44	68	−24
Visibility	0	0	level
AI search presence	0	0	level
Content & trust	49	58.5	−9.5

Pillar performance against the sector median. Bars right of centre are above the median, left are below.

Speed & CWV		-5
Technical		+12
Local presence		-24
Visibility		0
AI search presence		0
Content & trust		-9.5

Problems found

These are specific, checkable faults on the site — not opinions about it.

• Worth knowingThe site has not changed in a long timeThe homepage last reported a change 3.2 years ago.

Where this firm ranks

Ranks for 0 of 12 keywords, in the local 3-pack for 0 keywords.

Keyword	Position
vets Exeter	not in top 100
veterinary practice Exeter	not in top 100
best vets Exeter	not in top 100
emergency vet Exeter	not in top 100
cat vet Exeter	not in top 100
dog vet Exeter	not in top 100
24 hour vet Exeter	not in top 100
vet costs Exeter	not in top 100
animal hospital Exeter	not in top 100
vets Heavitree	not in top 100
vets St Leonards	not in top 100
veterinary Heavitree	not in top 100

The gap to the leader

This firm against the sector median and the index leader, City Vets in Heavitree, on every pillar.

Speed & CWV		61
Technical		100
Local presence		44
Visibility		0
AI search presence		0
Content & trust		49

this firm sector median leader

Applied Bacterial Control Ltd trails City Vets in Heavitree by 265 points across 5 pillars, but 54% of that is Visibility and AI search presence alone. It already matches or beats the leader on Technical.

AI search presence

Named in 0 of 5 AI answers. A domain citation is stronger evidence than a name mention.

✗	Who are the best vets in Exeter?
✗	Which veterinary practice in Exeter would you recommend?
✗	Top rated vets in Exeter
✗	My pet is unwell in Exeter - which vet should I call?
✗	Best vets in Heavitree, Exeter

Why this score

What each score is made of. Every input here is in the open dataset, so the arithmetic can be checked rather than taken on trust.

Pillar	Score	Made up of
Content & trust	49	about page: yes · team page: no · credentials: no · blog or news: yes · homepage: 411 words · last changed: 1155 days ago
Visibility	0	ranks for 0 of 12 keywords · local 3-pack: 0
Local presence	44	0 reviews · 0 new in 90 days
Technical	100	HTTPS: yes · page allows indexing: yes · robots.txt allows crawling: yes · sitemap: yes · structured data: yes

Key findings

• Local presence: 44/100, below the sector median of 68.

How this compares to the leader

City Vets in Heavitree leads the index with 87/100. The largest gaps are: Visibility (0 vs 82); AI search presence (0 vs 60); Local presence (44 vs 99).

Top fixes (ranked by impact)

1. Build local landing pages for the core keyword basket to lift organic and local-pack appearance.
2. Publish structured, citable content and entity schema so AI engines surface the business for core local queries.
3. Restart Google review generation and complete the Business Profile to close the local-pack gap.

Firms ranked near this one

The firms nearest Applied Bacterial Control Ltd in this ranking, beyond the two either side.

Firm	Rank	Score	Why it is here
TopVet	#17	47/100	2 places above you
South West Equine Referral Practice	#21	20/100	2 places below you
St David's Poultry Team Ltd	#16	47/100	3 places above you
Exonia Veterinary Emergency Service	#15	48/100	4 places above you

Context (not scored)

Recorded alongside the measurement to make it easier to judge, but carrying no weight in the Digital Visibility Score. See the methodology.

Companies House	No confident match on the registered name
Real-user speed (CrUX)	Too little traffic to appear in Chrome’s public dataset
Lighthouse (lab, mobile)	Performance 61 · accessibility 92 · best practices 81 · SEO 92 — biggest losses: Font display; Links do not have descriptive text; Links do not have a discernible name
Google profile detail	unclaimed · no description · hours listed
Backlinks	226 referring domains · 1719 links · rank 256
Site structure	1 pages crawled · 36 internal links per page · reachable in: contact 1 click, about 1 click, services 1 click · 3% of links use a generic anchor · 7 sitemap pages not reachable by following links
Sitemap	7 URLs listed · declared in robots.txt · newest entry 47 days old · 5 of 5 sampled URLs resolve

Where to get this fixed

Applied Bacterial Control Ltd’s lowest-scoring pillars among those we publish remediation guidance for:

• Visibility (0/100) — read topical authority on why ranking breadth across a sector beats chasing single terms. Background on analysing this pillar: visibility.
• AI search presence (0/100) — read generative engine optimisation on getting named by the answer engines this pillar measures. Background on analysing this pillar: ai search presence.

↑ Ranked aboveTor Equine Vets#18 · 47/100 Full indexAll 21 firms ↓ Ranked belowThe Chicken Vet#20 · 43/100

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How this is measured: see the index methodology, and the statistical methods behind each pillar. This index is published by PYC; if you want this score moved, start here.