Gloucester Restaurant Digital Visibility Index — Q3-2026

Not every firm could be measured on every pillar (Q3-2026)

6 of the firms below are missing at least one pillar: Speed & CWV (41 of 44), Content & trust (38 of 44). Where a pillar could not be measured for a firm it is excluded from that firm’s score and its remaining weights are renormalised, rather than scored zero — so those firms are ranked on less evidence than the rest, and their position should be read with that in mind. Affected: Moft Caffe, Olympian Bites, Saeeds, Tim Hortons - Gloucester, Dough from dough (events only), TANK. See the methodology.

The PYC Gloucester Restaurant Digital Visibility Index ranks 44 gloucester restaurants on how well they perform online — website speed, technical SEO, local presence, search visibility, AI search presence and content & trust — each scored 0–100 to a single Digital Visibility Score. Measured 29 August 2026 to the published methodology.

As of Q3-2026, 0% of the 41 gloucester restaurants measured on Speed & Core Web Vitals score below 50 on mobile (PYC Gloucester Restaurant Digital Visibility Index, measured 29 August 2026).

Who owns the first page

Across 12 keywords there are 120 first-page organic slots. The firms in this index hold 11 of them (9.2%); 76 distinct domains appear in total.

this index (11)   directories, national chains and firms not indexed (109)

Ranking well but not currently indexed:

• tripadvisor.co.uk — 11 top-10 slots, best #1
• visitgloucester.co.uk — 10 top-10 slots, best #2
• gloucesterquays.co.uk — 7 top-10 slots, best #1
• exploregloucestershire.co.uk — 7 top-10 slots, best #4
• bills-website.co.uk — 6 top-10 slots, best #3

90.8% of the first page belongs to businesses outside this index — directories, national chains and local firms not tracked here. These firms are not mainly competing with each other.

The league table

#	Gloucester Restaurant	Score	Spd	Tech	Local	Vis	AI	Cont
1	Greek on the Docks	67	79	88	99	15	60	28
2	Portivo Lounge	64	81	88	98	35	0	53
3	Hatherley Manor Hotel & Spa	63	54	100	94	28	0	91
4	Gloucester Food Dock	61	58	100	82	54	20	20
5	Nala Restaurant	61	74	100	100	0	0	58
6	Karak Chaii Gloucester	58	75	100	97	0	0	33
7	Pepe's	58	77	100	97	0	0	28
8	The Lock Keepers	57	74	100	96	6	0	25
9	Burger Boi - Gloucester	56	90	75	85	0	0	60
10	Five Guys Burgers and Fries Gloucester Quays	56	88	88	83	0	0	46
11	Café René	55	68	100	98	4	0	15
12	The Linden Tree	55	69	100	80	0	0	50
13	The New Dawn Inn	55	70	100	87	0	0	33
14	Chuck Burgers	53	81	75	94	0	0	25
15	Poppins	53	91	75	79	4	0	30
16	Roots + Seeds Cafe Kitchen Gloucester Food Docks	53	55	88	95	4	0	49
17	Royal Oak	53	56	88	94	8	0	40
18	Eat Unique	52	65	100	47	29	0	49
19	Farmhouse Deli	52	70	100	79	0	0	20
20	Hare & Hounds	52	55	88	93	8	0	40
21	GO SPICE	51	76	75	94	0	0	17
22	Fly Wingz	50	85	75	89	0	0	5
23	The Old Elm Inn	50	68	75	98	0	0	20
24	Bombay Mix	48	100	57	75	0	0	15
25	Côte Gloucester	48	68	75	78	0	20	10
26	Indian Memories	48	61	75	87	0	0	35
27	Banchina Italian	47	61	43	97	13	0	46
28	Golden City	47	74	75	78	0	0	13
29	Tara	47	59	100	66	0	0	16
30	Friar Tucks	46	75	63	84	0	0	20
31	NepaleseChef	46	60	43	98	0	0	60
32	Seymour Fryer	46	65	75	82	0	0	17
33	Brimble's Cafe	45	65	63	84	0	0	25
34	Nineteen at Brickhampton	45	84	63	68	0	0	20
35	Khans Kebabs & Grill	44	57	75	80	0	0	17
36	Spice Master	44	57	75	79	0	0	17
37	The Victoria Hotel	44	62	75	78	0	0	10
38	Coney Hill Fish & Chips	42	68	50	79	0	0	30
39	Moft Caffe	40	100	0	80	0	0	—
40	Olympian Bites	39	100	0	75	0	0	—
41	Saeeds	32	60	0	83	0	0	—
42	Tim Hortons - Gloucester	27	—	0	95	0	0	—
43	Dough from dough (events only)	22	—	0	77	0	0	—
44	TANK	21	—	0	75	0	0	—

Which keywords are contested, and which are open?

Every firm against every keyword, shaded by position. Darker is stronger; blank means outside the top 100. Read down a column for a contested term, across a row for a firm's reach.

	restaurants	best restaurants	places to eat	restaurants near me	fine dining	family restaurants	sunday lunch	book a table	top rated restaurants	restaurants Quays	restaurants Westgate	places to eat Quays
Greek on the Docks										9		11
Portivo Lounge	22		16			18		13		20		15
Hatherley Manor Hotel & Spa							3
Gloucester Food Dock	4	4	3	4	24	7	32	23	3	5		2
Nala Restaurant
Karak Chaii Gloucester
Pepe's
The Lock Keepers							21
Burger Boi - Gloucester
Five Guys Burgers and Fries Gloucester Quays
Café René								24
The Linden Tree
The New Dawn Inn
Chuck Burgers
Poppins						38
Roots + Seeds Cafe Kitchen Gloucester Food Docks												20
Royal Oak							17	19
Eat Unique	20	14	9	13	23	27			13
Farmhouse Deli
Hare & Hounds						24	19
GO SPICE
Fly Wingz
The Old Elm Inn
Bombay Mix
Côte Gloucester
Indian Memories
Banchina Italian					39			21		18
Golden City
Tara
Friar Tucks
NepaleseChef
Seymour Fryer
Brimble's Cafe
Nineteen at Brickhampton
Khans Kebabs & Grill
Spice Master
The Victoria Hotel
Coney Hill Fish & Chips
Moft Caffe
Olympian Bites
Saeeds
Tim Hortons - Gloucester
Dough from dough (events only)
TANK

1–3 4–10 11–20 21+ absent

No firm in this index reaches the first page for “fine dining Gloucester”, “book a table Gloucester”, “restaurants Westgate”. That is uncontested ground, and it is invisible in a league table.

Where each firm is visible

Where each firm is visible: ranked in the organic top 10 for at least one keyword, present in the local 3-pack, or named in at least one AI answer. 2 of 44 appear in all three.

2

Visible in	Firms	Which
All three channels	2	Greek on the Docks, Gloucester Food Dock
Organic + local pack	0	—
Organic + AI	0	—
Local pack + AI	0	—
Organic only	2	Hatherley Manor Hotel & Spa, Eat Unique
Local pack only	2	Portivo Lounge, The Lock Keepers
AI only	1	Côte Gloucester
None of the three	37	Nala Restaurant, Karak Chaii Gloucester, Pepe's, Burger Boi - Gloucester, Five Guys Burgers and Fries Gloucester Quays, Café René, The Linden Tree, The New Dawn Inn, Chuck Burgers, Poppins, Roots + Seeds Cafe Kitchen Gloucester Food Docks, Royal Oak, Farmhouse Deli, Hare & Hounds, GO SPICE, Fly Wingz, The Old Elm Inn, Bombay Mix, Indian Memories, Banchina Italian, Golden City, Tara, Friar Tucks, NepaleseChef, Seymour Fryer, Brimble's Cafe, Nineteen at Brickhampton, Khans Kebabs & Grill, Spice Master, The Victoria Hotel, Coney Hill Fish & Chips, Moft Caffe, Olympian Bites, Saeeds, Tim Hortons - Gloucester, Dough from dough (events only), TANK

2 of 44 firms are visible in all three channels. 37 appear in none of them.

Search visibility against AI presence

Search visibility against AI search presence. The dashed diagonal is parity; a firm far from it is strong in one channel and weak in the other.

horizontal: search visibility →   vertical: AI presence ↑

Greek on the Docks is the widest split: AI engines name it far more readily than search surfaces it (AI 60, visibility 15) — brand without search. Those are different problems behind a similar overall score.

Closest to the first page

Ranked between #11 and #20 — one page from the first, ordered by how close.

Greek on the Docks	Greek on the Docks — places to eat Gloucester Quays		#11
Portivo Lounge	Portivo Lounge — book a table Gloucester		#13
Eat Unique	Eat Unique — restaurants near me Gloucester		#13
Eat Unique	Eat Unique — top rated restaurants Gloucester		#13
Eat Unique	Eat Unique — best restaurants Gloucester		#14
Portivo Lounge	Portivo Lounge — places to eat Gloucester Quays		#15
Portivo Lounge	Portivo Lounge — places to eat Gloucester		#16
Royal Oak	Royal Oak — sunday lunch Gloucester		#17
Portivo Lounge	Portivo Lounge — family restaurants Gloucester		#18
Banchina Italian	Banchina Italian — restaurants Gloucester Quays		#18

15 winnable positions across 7 firms sit between #11 and #20 — one page off, and closer than any keyword the index does not already measure.

Reputation: reviews against rating

Google review volume (log scale) against average rating. Bubble size is review count. The rating axis starts at 3.9 so the cluster is readable; 2 firms rated below that sit on the floor, drawn hollow and named.

horizontal: reviews (log) →   vertical: rating ↑

Review volume spans 5 to 3223 and ratings 3.7 to 5, yet the Local pillar separates these firms by only 34 points — the raw figures discriminate where the score does not. Most reviews: Greek on the Docks (3223). Highest rating: 2 firms tied at 5.

What the keyword basket is asking

Search intent across the measured keyword basket, classified by DataForSEO.

commercial		9 of 12
informational		1 of 12
transactional		1 of 12
navigational		1 of 12

Local pack coverage across the city

Local 3-pack for “restaurants near me” searched from 9 points on a 3×3 grid across a 7.5-mile square centred on 51.864, -2.238. North is up; each cell names its position and carries its coordinates and the firms found there. Each cell counts how many indexed firms hold a pack slot at that location; a chain counts wherever any of its branches appears. 2 of 9 points contain at least one indexed firm, and 2 of the 44 indexed firms appear somewhere on the grid.

N ↑

Indexed firms holding a local pack slot, by grid position from north-west to south-east

NWnorth-west, 51.918, -2.325 — no indexed firm in the pack here	Nnorth, 51.918, -2.238 — no indexed firm in the pack here	NEnorth-east, 51.918, -2.151 — no indexed firm in the pack here
1Wwest, 51.864, -2.325 — Portivo Lounge	2·centre, 51.864, -2.238 — Portivo Lounge, Roots + Seeds Cafe Kitchen Gloucester Food Docks	Eeast, 51.864, -2.151 — no indexed firm in the pack here
SWsouth-west, 51.810, -2.325 — no indexed firm in the pack here	Ssouth, 51.810, -2.238 — no indexed firm in the pack here	SEsouth-east, 51.810, -2.151 — no indexed firm in the pack here

3.7 miles between points

none 1 firm 2 3 of the pack

Food hygiene rating against digital visibility

Food Standards Agency hygiene ratings, matched to 11 of 44 businesses on an exact registered name with the location corroborated by distance or local authority. The match rate is low by design: venues register under names that differ from the one they trade under, and an unmatched venue is left unmatched rather than guessed at. Recorded alongside the measurement and carrying no weight in any score.

Hygiene rating	Venues	Median visibility score
5	9	52
4	1	55
3	1	47

What the register says this cohort is

Companies House matched 5 of 44 businesses on an exact name with a corroborating registered address. Firms are seeded by trading name, which is how a business presents itself rather than what it is registered to do — so the mix below is often broader than the index title suggests. Median company age is 11.3 years, ranging from 1.8 to 18.4. Recorded alongside the measurement and carrying no weight in any score.

SIC	Registered activity	Firms
56101	Licensed restaurants	3
68320	Management of real estate	1
56102	Unlicensed restaurants and cafes	1

Which gloucester restaurant has the best website?

Greek on the Docks tops the Q3-2026 index with a Digital Visibility Score of 67/100. Each firm has a full diagnostic scorecard linked from the table above.

How this is measured

Every score follows the same six-pillar methodology: Speed & Core Web Vitals (20%), Technical foundation (20%), Local presence (20%), Visibility (15%), AI search presence (15%) and Content & trust (10%). Each pillar links to the knowledge-base article that explains what it measures; the statistical methods behind the scoring are written up separately. Download the full dataset: JSON · CSV.

Who publishes this

The index is compiled and published by PYC, a search consultancy run by Phil Yarrow. It exists because the questions it answers — who is actually visible in a local market, and by how much — were being answered with opinion. The collection and scoring code is open source, so any figure here can be recomputed rather than taken on trust.

Related reading on the practice behind the measurements: topical authority, generative engine optimisation, and case studies from comparable service businesses.

Using this data

This dataset is published under CC BY 4.0. You may reuse it, including commercially and in AI-generated answers, provided you credit Phil Yarrow (PYC) by name and link back. That credit is a condition of use, not a courtesy.

Phil Yarrow (PYC) — Local Digital Visibility Index. https://hub.pyc.agency/indices/

That one credit covers every dataset on this site — one figure or all of them. When quoting this particular dataset precisely, the fuller form is:

Phil Yarrow (PYC) — Local Digital Visibility Index: Gloucester Restaurant, Q3-2026. https://hub.pyc.agency/indices/gloucester-restaurants/

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