Bristol Dentist Digital Visibility Index — Q4-2026

The PYC Bristol Dentist Digital Visibility Index ranks 9 dentists in Bristol 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 5 October 2026 to the published methodology.

As of Q4-2026, 22% of the 9 dentists in Bristol measured on Speed & Core Web Vitals score below 50 on mobile (PYC Bristol Dentist Digital Visibility Index, measured 5 October 2026).

Who owns the first page

Across 12 keywords there are 120 first-page organic slots. The firms in this index hold 12 of them (10%); 108 distinct domains appear in total.

this index (12)   directories, national chains and firms not indexed (108)

Ranking well but not currently indexed:

• nuyu-dental.co.uk — 6 top-10 slots, best #1
• cqc.org.uk — 6 top-10 slots, best #1
• topdoctors.co.uk — 5 top-10 slots, best #1
• bristoldentalsuite.co.uk — 5 top-10 slots, best #2
• reddit.com — 5 top-10 slots, best #3

90.0% 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

#	Bristol Dentist	Score	Spd	Tech	Local	Vis	AI	Cont
1	Clifton Dental Surgery	72	44	88	89	44	80	87
2	DentaQuest Clifton	66	70	100	76	27	20	100
3	Bristol Dental Specialists	65	61	88	83	14	60	70
4	Clifton Down Dental Practice	57	65	100	77	19	0	62
5	Dental Touch	57	58	88	91	21	0	66
6	Redland Road Dental Practice	57	62	75	84	13	20	80
7	Windmill Hill Smiles	54	63	75	91	17	0	55
8	Promenade Dental	53	28	100	97	6	0	74
9	Zetland Road Dental Practice	53	84	88	71	0	0	46

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.

	dentist	best dentist	private dentist	NHS dentist	emergency dentist	cosmetic dentistry	dental implants	teeth whitening	invisalign	dentist Clifton	dentist Bishopston	dental practice Clifton
Clifton Dental Surgery			6			4	6		7			1
DentaQuest Clifton	8					8			3
Bristol Dental Specialists		23	23						43
Clifton Down Dental Practice												7
Dental Touch	15		16	8					26			27
Redland Road Dental Practice			7	16								21
Windmill Hill Smiles			11			5
Promenade Dental									41
Zetland Road Dental Practice

1–3 4–10 11–20 21+ absent

No firm in this index reaches the first page for “best dentist Bristol”, “emergency dentist Bristol”, “teeth whitening Bristol” and 2 other keywords. 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. 1 of 9 appear in all three.

Visible in	Firms	Which
All three channels	1	Clifton Dental Surgery
Organic + local pack	1	Clifton Down Dental Practice
Organic + AI	2	DentaQuest Clifton, Redland Road Dental Practice
Local pack + AI	1	Bristol Dental Specialists
Organic only	2	Dental Touch, Windmill Hill Smiles
Local pack only	1	Promenade Dental
AI only	0	—
None of the three	1	Zetland Road Dental Practice

1 of 9 firms are visible in all three channels. 1 appears 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 ↑

Bristol Dental Specialists is the widest split: AI engines name it far more readily than search surfaces it (AI 60, visibility 14) — 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.

Windmill Hill Smiles	Windmill Hill Smiles — private dentist Bristol		#11
Dental Touch	Dental Touch — dentist Bristol		#15
Dental Touch	Dental Touch — private dentist Bristol		#16
Redland Road Dental Practice	Redland Road Dental Practice — NHS dentist Bristol		#16

4 winnable positions across 3 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.

horizontal: reviews (log) →   vertical: rating ↑

Review volume spans 14 to 539 and ratings 4.6 to 5, yet the Local pillar separates these firms by only 26 points — the raw figures discriminate where the score does not. Most reviews: Clifton Dental Surgery (539). Highest rating: DentaQuest Clifton (5).

What the keyword basket is asking

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

navigational		6 of 12
informational		3 of 12
commercial		2 of 12
transactional		1 of 12

Local pack coverage across the city

Local 3-pack for “dentist near me” searched from 9 points on a 3×3 grid across a 7.5-mile square centred on 51.455, -2.588. 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. 1 of 9 points contain at least one indexed firm, and 1 of the 9 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, 51.509, -2.674 — no indexed firm in the pack here	Nnorth, 51.509, -2.588 — no indexed firm in the pack here	NEnorth-east, 51.509, -2.501 — no indexed firm in the pack here
1Wwest, 51.455, -2.674 — Clifton Dental Surgery	·centre, 51.455, -2.588 — no indexed firm in the pack here	Eeast, 51.455, -2.501 — no indexed firm in the pack here
SWsouth-west, 51.400, -2.674 — no indexed firm in the pack here	Ssouth, 51.400, -2.588 — no indexed firm in the pack here	SEsouth-east, 51.400, -2.501 — no indexed firm in the pack here

3.7 miles between points

none 1 firm 2 3 of the pack

What changed since last quarter

Change between Q3-2026 and Q4-2026 on the 6 pillars measured in both quarters — Speed & CWV and Technical and Local presence and Visibility and AI search presence and Content & trust. The other pillars were not measured in Q3-2026, so no comparison is possible and none is drawn.

Bristol Dental Specialists		+60	AI search presence
DentaQuest Clifton		+50	Technical
Redland Road Dental Practice		-33	Visibility
Bristol Dental Specialists		-21	Visibility
Clifton Dental Surgery		+20	AI search presence
DentaQuest Clifton		+20	AI search presence
Clifton Down Dental Practice		-20	AI search presence
Dental Touch		-20	AI search presence
Promenade Dental		+19	Local presence
Zetland Road Dental Practice		-17	Content & trust
Dental Touch		-12	Visibility
Windmill Hill Smiles		-12	Visibility

Hollow mark is Q3-2026, solid is Q4-2026. Showing the 12 largest of 29 changes. 24 readings unchanged and not drawn, across 9 firms that moved.

Bristol Dental Specialists moved furthest: AI search presence up 60 points since Q3-2026. 29 of 53 comparable readings changed at all — which is what a quarter of movement actually looks like.

Which dentist in Bristol has the best website?

Clifton Dental Surgery tops the Q4-2026 index with a Digital Visibility Score of 72/100. 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/

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