Gloucester Food Dock — Gloucester Restaurant Digital Visibility Score

Digital Visibility Score: 61 / 100 · Rank 4 of 44

Digital Visibility Score61/100Rank 4 of 44 · top 7%Problems found1The site has not changed in a long time Furthest behind-11Speed & CWV: 58 against a sector median of 69

Measured 29 August 2026 via the PYC Gloucester Restaurant 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	58	69	−11
Technical	100	75	+25
Local presence	82	84	−2
Visibility	54	0	+54
AI search presence	20	0	+20
Content & trust	20	26.5	−6.5

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

Speed & CWV		-11
Technical		+25
Local presence		-2
Visibility		+54
AI search presence		+20
Content & trust		-6.5

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 3.6 years ago.

Where this firm ranks

Ranks for 11 of 12 keywords, average position 10.1, in the local 3-pack for 3 keywords.

Keyword	Position
restaurants Gloucester	#4
best restaurants Gloucester	#4
places to eat Gloucester	#3
restaurants near me Gloucester	#4
fine dining Gloucester	#24
family restaurants Gloucester	#7
sunday lunch Gloucester	#32
book a table Gloucester	#23
top rated restaurants Gloucester	#3
restaurants Gloucester Quays	#5
restaurants Westgate	not in top 100
places to eat Gloucester Quays	#2

The gap to the leader

This firm against the sector median and the index leader, Greek on the Docks, on every pillar.

Speed & CWV		58
Technical		100
Local presence		82
Visibility		54
AI search presence		20
Content & trust		20

this firm sector median leader

Gloucester Food Dock trails Greek on the Docks by 86 points across 4 pillars, but 71% of that is AI search presence and Speed & CWV alone. It already matches or beats the leader on Technical, Visibility.

AI search presence

Named in 1 of 5 AI answers. A domain citation is stronger evidence than a name mention.

✓	What are the best restaurants in Gloucester?	named
✗	Where should I eat in Gloucester tonight?
✗	Top rated restaurants in Gloucester
✗	I want a nice meal in Gloucester - where should I book?
✗	Best places to eat in Gloucester Quays, Gloucester

Local presence

Google Business Profile.

Rating	4.8 / 5
Reviews	48
Locations	1
Reviews in last 90 days	8
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.

food options6
burgers4
ice cream3
atmosphere3
building3
coffee2
Serves wine2
bottle2

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	20	about page: no · team page: no · credentials: no · blog or news: no · homepage: 857 words · last changed: 1322 days ago
Visibility	54	ranks for 11 of 12 keywords · average position 10.1 · local 3-pack: 3
Local presence	82	48 reviews · rated 4.8 · 8 new in 90 days
Technical	100	HTTPS: yes · page allows indexing: yes · robots.txt allows crawling: yes · sitemap: yes · structured data: yes

Key findings

Speed & CWV: 58/100, below the sector median of 69.

How this compares to the leader

Greek on the Docks leads the index with 67/100. The largest gaps are: AI search presence (20 vs 60); Speed & CWV (58 vs 79); Local presence (82 vs 99).

Top fixes (ranked by impact)

Publish structured, citable content and entity schema so AI engines surface the business for core local queries.
Add about/team pages, and refresh stale content.
Build local landing pages for the core keyword basket to lift organic and local-pack appearance.

Firms ranked near this one

The firms nearest Gloucester Food Dock in this ranking, beyond the two either side.

Firm	Rank	Score	Why it is here
Portivo Lounge	#2	64/100	2 places above you
Karak Chaii Gloucester	#6	58/100	2 places below you
Greek on the Docks	#1	67/100	3 places above you
Pepe's	#7	58/100	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	Company 06543132 · 18.4 years old · active · SIC 68320
Real-user speed (CrUX)	Too little traffic to appear in Chrome’s public dataset
Food hygiene (FSA)	No confident match on the registered trading name
Lighthouse (lab, mobile)	Performance 52 · accessibility 94 · best practices 58 · SEO 92 — biggest losses: Improve image delivery; Avoid multiple page redirects; Document request latency
Google profile detail	87 photos · claimed · has a description · hours listed · 0 of 48 reviews are one star
Backlinks	45 referring domains · 101 links · rank 134 · 3 broken
Site structure	1 pages crawled · 18 internal links per page · 0% of links use a generic anchor

Where to get this fixed

Gloucester Food Dock’s lowest-scoring pillars among those we publish remediation guidance for:

AI search presence (20/100) — read generative engine optimisation on getting named by the answer engines this pillar measures. Background on analysing this pillar: ai search presence.
Content & trust (20/100) — read topical authority on how depth and coverage compound into citation-worthiness. Background on analysing this pillar: content & trust.

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.