AAS Vets in Hucclecote, Gloucester — Gloucester Vet Digital Visibility Score

Digital Visibility Score: 77 / 100 · Rank 2 of 21

Measured 1 September 2026 via the PYC Gloucester Vet 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	62	62	level
Technical	100	88	+12
Local presence	78	76	+2
Visibility	74	21	+53
AI search presence	60	0	+60
Content & trust	92	70	+22

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

Speed & CWV		0
Technical		+12
Local presence		+2
Visibility		+53
AI search presence		+60
Content & trust		+22

Where this firm ranks

Ranks for 12 of 12 keywords, average position 3.5, in the local 3-pack for 1 keyword.

Keyword	Position
vets Gloucester	#3
veterinary practice Gloucester	#7
best vets Gloucester	#5
emergency vet Gloucester	#4
cat vet Gloucester	#1
dog vet Gloucester	#4
24 hour vet Gloucester	#8
vet costs Gloucester	#1
animal hospital Gloucester	#3
vets Quedgeley	#2
vets Hucclecote	#1
veterinary Quedgeley	#3

The gap to the leader

This firm against the sector median and the index leader, Wood Veterinary Group Animal Hospital, on every pillar.

Speed & CWV		62
Technical		100
Local presence		78
Visibility		74
AI search presence		60
Content & trust		92

this firm sector median leader

AAS Vets in Hucclecote, Gloucester trails Wood Veterinary Group Animal Hospital by 43 points across 3 pillars, but 77% of that is Local presence and Speed & CWV alone. It already matches or beats the leader on Technical, AI search presence, Content & trust.

AI search presence

Named in 3 of 5 AI answers. A domain citation is stronger evidence than a name mention.

✗	Who are the best vets in Gloucester?
✓	Which veterinary practice in Gloucester would you recommend?	cited by domain
✗	Top rated vets in Gloucester
✓	My pet is unwell in Gloucester - which vet should I call?	cited by domain
✓	Best vets in Quedgeley, Gloucester	cited by domain

Local presence

Google Business Profile.

Rating	4.58 / 5
Reviews	288
Locations	4
Reviews in last 90 days	0
Address matches website	yes

Lab speed against real users

Largest Contentful Paint measured two ways: one throttled lab run, against 28 days of real Chrome users.

Lab (Lighthouse, mobile)	8.0s	one throttled load on a datacentre machine
Field (real users)	1.1s	75th percentile of actual Chrome visitors over 28 days

The lab figure is 7× the real-user figure. Both agree the site is performing acceptably for real visitors.

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.

kind staff7
cat care6
vets5
thoughtful staff2
amazing care2
dog care2
accommodating2
overall experience2
feel2
sleep2

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	92	about page: yes · team page: yes · credentials: yes · blog or news: yes · homepage: 334 words · last changed: 0 days ago
Visibility	74	ranks for 12 of 12 keywords · average position 3.5 · local 3-pack: 1
Local presence	78	288 reviews · rated 4.58 · 0 new in 90 days
Technical	100	HTTPS: yes · page allows indexing: yes · robots.txt allows crawling: yes · sitemap: yes · structured data: yes

Key findings

No pillar falls materially below the sector median this quarter.

How this compares to the leader

Wood Veterinary Group Animal Hospital leads the index with 79/100. The largest gaps are: Local presence (78 vs 99); Speed & CWV (62 vs 74); Visibility (74 vs 84).

Top fixes (ranked by impact)

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.
Build local landing pages for the core keyword basket to lift organic and local-pack appearance.

Firms ranked near this one

The firms nearest AAS Vets in Hucclecote, Gloucester in this ranking, beyond the two either side.

Firm	Rank	Score	Why it is here
SPA Veterinary Services	#4	74/100	2 places below you
Stroud Road Vets	#5	74/100	3 places below you
Orchard View Vets	#6	71/100	4 places below you
Church Road Veterinary Centre	#7	70/100	5 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)	LCP 1130ms · INP 173ms · CLS 0.01 · passes Core Web Vitals
Lighthouse (lab, mobile)	Performance 57 · accessibility 94 · best practices 88 · SEO 92 — biggest losses: Render-blocking requests; Background and foreground colors do not have a sufficient contrast ratio.; LCP request discovery
Google profile detail	6 photos · claimed · has a description · hours listed · 1 of 66 reviews are one star
Backlinks	123 referring domains · 436 links · rank 174
Site structure	25 pages crawled · 72.9 internal links per page · reachable in: contact 1 click, about 1 click, team 1 click, services 1 click · 1% of links use a generic anchor
Sitemap	declared in robots.txt · newest entry 14 days old

Where to get this fixed

AAS Vets in Hucclecote, Gloucester’s lowest-scoring pillars among those we publish remediation guidance for:

AI search presence (60/100) — read generative engine optimisation on getting named by the answer engines this pillar measures. Background on analysing this pillar: ai search presence.
Visibility (74/100) — read topical authority on why ranking breadth across a sector beats chasing single terms. Background on analysing this pillar: visibility.

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.