Hobbs Vet Physio — Gloucester Physiotherapy Digital Visibility Score

Digital Visibility Score: 50 / 100 · Rank 29 of 46

Digital Visibility Score50/100Rank 29 of 46 Critical problem1Search engines are being told not to index this site Furthest behind-10.5Visibility: 0 against a sector median of 10.5

Measured 1 September 2026 via the PYC Gloucester Physiotherapy 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	55	63	−8
Technical	88	88	level
Local presence	71	72.5	−1.5
Visibility	0	10.5	−10.5
AI search presence	0	0	level
Content & trust	75	49	+26

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

Speed & CWV		-8
Technical		0
Local presence		-1.5
Visibility		-10.5
AI search presence		0
Content & trust		+26

Problems found

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

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

Keyword	Position
physiotherapy Gloucester	not in top 100
physio Gloucester	not in top 100
best physiotherapist Gloucester	not in top 100
sports injury clinic Gloucester	not in top 100
back pain treatment Gloucester	not in top 100
chiropractor Gloucester	not in top 100
osteopath Gloucester	not in top 100
private physio Gloucester	not in top 100
rehabilitation clinic Gloucester	not in top 100
physiotherapy Quedgeley	not in top 100
physiotherapy Hucclecote	not in top 100
physio Quedgeley	not in top 100

The gap to the leader

This firm against the sector median and the index leader, 5 Valleys Physio Ltd (Gloucester), on every pillar.

Speed & CWV		55
Technical		88
Local presence		71
Visibility		0
AI search presence		0
Content & trust		75

this firm sector median leader

Hobbs Vet Physio trails 5 Valleys Physio Ltd (Gloucester) by 194 points across 5 pillars, but 79% of that is AI search presence and Visibility 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 physiotherapists in Gloucester?
✗	Which physio clinic in Gloucester would you recommend for a sports injury?
✗	Top rated physiotherapy in Gloucester
✗	I have back pain and live in Gloucester - who should I see?
✗	Best physiotherapy in Quedgeley, Gloucester

Local presence

Google Business Profile.

Rating	5 / 5
Reviews	20
Locations	1
Reviews in last 90 days	0
Address matches website	yes

What customers talk about

Themes Google extracted from this business’s reviews, by how often customers raise them. Not scored — this is what people say, not how findable the business is.

vet physiotherapist4
clear explanations4
laser therapy3
dog treatment3
thorough examination3
osteoarthritis treatment2
home visits2
treatment plans2
knowledgeable professional2
horse care2

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	75	about page: yes · team page: yes · credentials: no · blog or news: yes · homepage: 470 words
Visibility	0	ranks for 0 of 12 keywords · local 3-pack: 0
Local presence	71	20 reviews · rated 5 · 0 new in 90 days
Technical	88	HTTPS: yes · page allows indexing: yes · robots.txt allows crawling: no · sitemap: yes · structured data: yes

Key findings

Visibility: 0/100, below the sector median of 10.5.

How this compares to the leader

5 Valleys Physio Ltd (Gloucester) leads the index with 78/100. The largest gaps are: AI search presence (0 vs 100); Visibility (0 vs 54); Local presence (71 vs 90).

Top fixes (ranked by impact)

Build local landing pages for the core keyword basket to lift organic and local-pack appearance.
Publish structured, citable content and entity schema so AI engines surface the business for core local queries.
Cut mobile LCP below 2.5s (optimise images and remove render-blocking resources) — the biggest score and ranking lever.

Firms ranked near this one

The firms nearest Hobbs Vet Physio in this ranking, beyond the two either side.

Firm	Rank	Score	Why it is here
Hill Osteopathy	#27	51/100	2 places above you
Er Chiropractic	#31	49/100	2 places below you
K Wakeman Veterinary Physiotherapy	#26	52/100	3 places above you
Even Stride Veterinary Physiotherapy - Cheltenham	#32	49/100	3 places below 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 39 · accessibility 95 · best practices 37 · SEO 92 — biggest losses: Avoid multiple page redirects; Network dependency tree; Uses deprecated APIs
Google profile detail	17 photos · claimed · has a description · no hours listed · 0 of 20 reviews are one star
Backlinks	45 referring domains · 50 links · rank 65
Site structure	1 pages crawled · 29 internal links per page · reachable in: contact 1 click, about 1 click, services 1 click · 10% of links use a generic anchor · 25 sitemap pages not reachable by following links
Sitemap	25 URLs listed · declared in robots.txt · newest entry 1541 days old · 5 of 5 sampled URLs resolve

Where to get this fixed

Hobbs Vet Physio’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.

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.