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.
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.
Worth fixingNo structured data on the homepageNothing tells a search engine or an assistant what this business is, where it is, or what it does — in machine-readable terms.
This firm against the sector median and the index leader, Wood Veterinary Group Animal Hospital, on every pillar.
Speed & CWV
59
Technical
63
Local presence
88
Visibility
57
AI search presence
80
Content & trust
79
this firm sector median leader
Church Road Veterinary Centre trails Wood Veterinary Group Animal Hospital by 78 points across 4 pillars, but 67% of that is Visibility and Technical alone. It already matches or beats the leader on AI search presence, Content & trust.
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.
Wood Veterinary Group Animal Hospital leads the index with 79/100. The largest gaps are: Visibility (57 vs 84); Technical (63 vs 88); Speed & CWV (59 vs 74).
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 14023194 · 4.4 years old · active · SIC 75000
Real-user speed (CrUX)
Too little traffic to appear in Chrome’s public dataset
Lighthouse (lab, mobile)
Performance 60 · accessibility 89 · best practices 58 · SEO 100 — biggest losses: Issues were logged in the `Issues` panel in Chrome Devtools; Improve image delivery; LCP breakdown
Google profile detail
8 photos · claimed · has a description · hours listed · 0 of 57 reviews are one star
Backlinks
39 referring domains · 195 links · rank 115
Site structure
1 pages crawled · 34 internal links per page · reachable in: contact 1 click, about 1 click, team 1 click, services 1 click · 0% of links use a generic anchor · 24 sitemap pages not reachable by following links
Sitemap
25 URLs listed · declared in robots.txt · newest entry 12 days old · 5 of 5 sampled URLs resolve
Church Road Veterinary Centre’s lowest-scoring pillars among those we publish remediation guidance for:
Visibility (57/100) — read topical authority on why ranking breadth across a sector beats chasing single terms. Background on analysing this pillar: visibility.
Technical (63/100) — read SEO automation on running these technical checks continuously rather than once a quarter. Background on analysing this pillar: technical.