Gloucester Vet Digital Visibility Index — Q3-2026

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

2 of the firms below are missing at least one pillar: Content & trust (19 of 21). 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: Dragon Vets, Kingsway, Splash Canine Hydrotherapy Centre. See the methodology.

The PYC Gloucester Vet Digital Visibility Index ranks 21 gloucester vets 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 1 September 2026 to the published methodology.

As of Q3-2026, 10% of the 21 gloucester vets measured on Speed & Core Web Vitals score below 50 on mobile (PYC Gloucester Vet Digital Visibility Index, measured 1 September 2026).

Who owns the first page

Across 12 keywords there are 120 first-page organic slots. The firms in this index hold 74 of them (61.7%); 48 distinct domains appear in total.

this index (74)   directories, national chains and firms not indexed (46)

Ranking well but not currently indexed:

• ledburyvets.co.uk — 8 top-10 slots, best #5
• eastcottreferrals.co.uk — 5 top-10 slots, best #2
• cvsvets.com — 5 top-10 slots, best #6
• vets4pets.com — 4 top-10 slots, best #2
• linnaeusgroup.co.uk — 4 top-10 slots, best #3

38.3% 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 Vet	Score	Spd	Tech	Local	Vis	AI	Cont
1	Wood Veterinary Group Animal Hospital	79	74	88	99	84	60	49
2	AAS Vets in Hucclecote, Gloucester	77	62	100	78	74	60	92
3	The Brambles Veterinary Surgery Barnwood Road	76	81	100	75	50	80	49
4	SPA Veterinary Services	74	82	75	95	73	40	70
5	Stroud Road Vets	74	57	88	85	62	60	100
6	Orchard View Vets	71	46	100	94	43	60	75
7	Church Road Veterinary Centre	70	59	63	88	57	80	79
8	Vale Vets	56	62	100	47	42	0	75
9	Arvonia Vets Churchdown Veterinary Centre	55	69	63	81	0	20	96
10	Cheltenham Equine Vets	52	55	100	76	0	0	53
11	K Wakeman Veterinary Physiotherapy	52	61	88	71	0	0	80
12	Cotswold Equine Physio	51	65	100	69	0	0	40
13	Even Stride Veterinary Physiotherapy - Cheltenham	50	68	88	66	0	0	55
14	Four Wet Paws Hydrotherapy and Physiotherapy	48	58	75	76	0	0	60
15	Poultry Health Services (at Wood Vets)	48	51	100	56	0	0	70
16	BCVA Ltd	46	69	75	47	0	0	80
17	Dragon Vets, Kingsway	45	57	0	99	42	20	—
18	Gloucester Laboratories at Wood Veterinary Group	45	95	38	61	39	0	3
19	Pet Care Scheme at SPA Vets Painswick Road	45	63	75	69	0	0	35
20	Jollyes Pet Clinic - Gloucester	41	36	75	50	4	0	83
21	Splash Canine Hydrotherapy Centre	41	71	0	98	21	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.

	vets	veterinary practice	best vets	emergency vet	cat vet	dog vet	24 hour vet	vet costs	animal hospital	vets Quedgeley	vets Hucclecote	veterinary Quedgeley
Wood Veterinary Group Animal Hospital	2	1	6	1	2	2	1	5	1	1	12	1
AAS Vets in Hucclecote, Gloucester	3	7	5	4	1	4	8	1	3	2	1	3
The Brambles Veterinary Surgery Barnwood Road	4	2	3	15	7	8	27	15	9	42	2	39
SPA Veterinary Services	1	4	1	2	6	1	3	9	4	3	17	2
Stroud Road Vets	5	3	2	6	4	3	6	4	12	8		7
Orchard View Vets	24	25	13			24		26	18		39	34
Church Road Veterinary Centre	9	10	4	7	5	9	12	11	5
Vale Vets	22	24		10	28		5	34	24	21	27	19
Arvonia Vets Churchdown Veterinary Centre
Cheltenham Equine Vets
K Wakeman Veterinary Physiotherapy
Cotswold Equine Physio
Even Stride Veterinary Physiotherapy - Cheltenham
Four Wet Paws Hydrotherapy and Physiotherapy
Poultry Health Services (at Wood Vets)
BCVA Ltd
Dragon Vets, Kingsway	20	21	22	3	23	14	2	6		12		13
Gloucester Laboratories at Wood Veterinary Group	47	40		43	39	37			27	58	46	60
Pet Care Scheme at SPA Vets Painswick Road
Jollyes Pet Clinic - Gloucester						41
Splash Canine Hydrotherapy Centre	48			51	25	35		18

1–3 4–10 11–20 21+ absent

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. 4 of 21 appear in all three.

Visible in	Firms	Which
All three channels	4	Wood Veterinary Group Animal Hospital, AAS Vets in Hucclecote, Gloucester, SPA Veterinary Services, Church Road Veterinary Centre
Organic + local pack	0	—
Organic + AI	3	The Brambles Veterinary Surgery Barnwood Road, Stroud Road Vets, Dragon Vets, Kingsway
Local pack + AI	1	Orchard View Vets
Organic only	1	Vale Vets
Local pack only	1	Gloucester Laboratories at Wood Veterinary Group
AI only	1	Arvonia Vets Churchdown Veterinary Centre
None of the three	10	Cheltenham Equine Vets, K Wakeman Veterinary Physiotherapy, Cotswold Equine Physio, Even Stride Veterinary Physiotherapy - Cheltenham, Four Wet Paws Hydrotherapy and Physiotherapy, Poultry Health Services (at Wood Vets), BCVA Ltd, Pet Care Scheme at SPA Vets Painswick Road, Jollyes Pet Clinic - Gloucester, Splash Canine Hydrotherapy Centre

4 of 21 firms are visible in all three channels. 10 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 ↑

Vale Vets is the widest split: search surfaces it far more readily than AI engines name it (visibility 42, AI 0) — search without brand. 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.

Church Road Veterinary Centre	Church Road Veterinary Centre — vet costs Gloucester		#11
Wood Veterinary Group Animal Hospital	Wood Veterinary Group Animal Hospital — vets Hucclecote		#12
Stroud Road Vets	Stroud Road Vets — animal hospital Gloucester		#12
Church Road Veterinary Centre	Church Road Veterinary Centre — 24 hour vet Gloucester		#12
Dragon Vets, Kingsway	Dragon Vets, Kingsway — vets Quedgeley		#12
Orchard View Vets	Orchard View Vets — best vets Gloucester		#13
Dragon Vets, Kingsway	Dragon Vets, Kingsway — veterinary Quedgeley		#13
Dragon Vets, Kingsway	Dragon Vets, Kingsway — dog vet Gloucester		#14
The Brambles Veterinary Surgery Barnwood Road	The Brambles Veterinary Surgery Barnwood Road — emergency vet Gloucester		#15
The Brambles Veterinary Surgery Barnwood Road	The Brambles Veterinary Surgery Barnwood Road — vet costs Gloucester		#15

15 winnable positions across 9 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 4.1 so the cluster is readable; one firm rated below that sits on the floor, drawn hollow and named.

horizontal: reviews (log) →   vertical: rating ↑

Review volume spans 1 to 668 and ratings 3 to 5, yet the Local pillar separates these firms by only 43 points — the raw figures discriminate where the score does not. Most reviews: SPA Veterinary Services (668). Highest rating: 6 firms tied at 5.

What the keyword basket is asking

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

commercial		7 of 12
informational		3 of 12
navigational		2 of 12

Local pack coverage across the city

Local 3-pack for “vets 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. 8 of 9 points contain at least one indexed firm, and 7 of the 21 indexed firms appear somewhere on the grid.

N ↑

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

3NWnorth-west, 51.918, -2.325 — Orchard View Vets, Splash Canine Hydrotherapy Centre, Church Road Veterinary Centre	3Nnorth, 51.918, -2.238 — Church Road Veterinary Centre, Orchard View Vets, SPA Veterinary Services	NEnorth-east, 51.918, -2.151 — no indexed firm in the pack here
2Wwest, 51.864, -2.325 — Orchard View Vets, Church Road Veterinary Centre	2·centre, 51.864, -2.238 — SPA Veterinary Services, Stroud Road Vets	1Eeast, 51.864, -2.151 — SPA Veterinary Services
3SWsouth-west, 51.810, -2.325 — SPA Veterinary Services, Stroud Road Vets, Wood Veterinary Group Animal Hospital	3Ssouth, 51.810, -2.238 — Stroud Road Vets, Dragon Vets, Kingsway, SPA Veterinary Services	2SEsouth-east, 51.810, -2.151 — SPA Veterinary Services, Stroud Road Vets

3.7 miles between points

none 1 firm 2 3 of the pack

Which gloucester vet has the best website?

Wood Veterinary Group Animal Hospital tops the Q3-2026 index with a Digital Visibility Score of 79/100. 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:

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