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St Davids Veterinary Clinic - Topsham — Exeter Vet Digital Visibility Score

Digital Visibility Score: 49 / 100 · Rank 14 of 21

Digital Visibility Score49/100Rank 14 of 21Critical problem1Search engines are being told not to index this siteFurthest behind-13Technical: 75 against a sector median of 88

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

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Each pillar scored 0–100 against the sector median for this index. The final column is this firm's distance from that median.
PillarScoreMedianvs median
Speed & CWV7566+9
Technical7588−13
Local presence7068+2
Visibility00level
AI search presence00level
Content & trust—58.5not measured
Pillar performance against the sector median. Bars right of centre are above the median, left are below.
Speed & CWV+9
Technical-13
Local presence+2
Visibility0
AI search presence0
Content & trustnot measured

Problems found

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1 critical problem found. These are specific, checkable faults on the site — not opinions about it.
  • CriticalSearch engines are being told not to index this siteThe site’s own robots.txt disallows crawling. Until that changes, nothing else on this page can help — the pages cannot enter the index in the first place.

Where this firm ranks

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Ranks for 0 of 12 keywords, in the local 3-pack for 0 keywords.
KeywordPosition
vets Exeternot in top 100
veterinary practice Exeternot in top 100
best vets Exeternot in top 100
emergency vet Exeternot in top 100
cat vet Exeternot in top 100
dog vet Exeternot in top 100
24 hour vet Exeternot in top 100
vet costs Exeternot in top 100
animal hospital Exeternot in top 100
vets Heavitreenot in top 100
vets St Leonardsnot in top 100
veterinary Heavitreenot in top 100

The gap to the leader

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This firm against the sector median and the index leader, City Vets in Heavitree, on every pillar.
Speed & CWV75
Technical75
Local presence70
Visibility0
AI search presence0

this firm sector median leader

St Davids Veterinary Clinic - Topsham trails City Vets in Heavitree by 199 points across 5 pillars, but 71% of that is Visibility and AI search presence alone.

AI search presence

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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

Local presence

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Google Business Profile.
Rating4.8 / 5
Reviews12
Locations1
Reviews in last 90 days0
Address matches websiteyes

Why this score

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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.
PillarScoreMade up of
Visibility0ranks for 0 of 12 keywords · local 3-pack: 0
Local presence7012 reviews · rated 4.8 · 0 new in 90 days
Technical75HTTPS: yes · page allows indexing: — · robots.txt allows crawling: no · sitemap: yes · structured data: —

Key findings

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  • Technical: 75/100, below the sector median of 88.

How this compares to the leader

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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 (70 vs 99).

Top fixes (ranked by impact)

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  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

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The firms nearest St Davids Veterinary Clinic - Topsham in this ranking, beyond the two either side.
FirmRankScoreWhy it is here
Phoenix Equine#1251/1002 places above you
St David's Poultry Team Ltd#1647/1002 places below you
Stringer Equine Veterinary Practice, Exeter#1152/1003 places above you
TopVet#1747/1003 places below you

Context (not scored)

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Recorded alongside the measurement to make it easier to judge, but carrying no weight in the Digital Visibility Score. See the methodology.
Companies HouseNo confident match on the registered name
Real-user speed (CrUX)Too little traffic to appear in Chrome’s public dataset
Lighthouse (lab, mobile)Performance 51 · accessibility 100 · best practices 96 · SEO 36 — biggest losses: Reduce unused JavaScript; Links do not have descriptive text; Render-blocking requests
Google profile detail7 photos · claimed · has a description · no hours listed · 0 of 12 reviews are one star
Backlinks1545 referring domains · 25520 links · rank 328 · 116 broken
Site structureNot crawled — homepage HTTP 404

Where to get this fixed

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St Davids Veterinary Clinic - Topsham’s lowest-scoring pillars among those we publish remediation guidance for:

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.