Bristol Dentist Digital Visibility Index — Q3-2026

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

One firm below is missing at least one pillar: Speed & CWV (8 of 9). 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 it is ranked on less evidence than the rest, and its position should be read with that in mind. Affected: DentaQuest Clifton. See the methodology.

The PYC Bristol Dentist Digital Visibility Index ranks 9 bristol dentists 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 27 August 2026 to the published methodology.

As of Q3-2026, 25% of the 8 bristol dentists measured on Speed & Core Web Vitals score below 50 on mobile (PYC Bristol Dentist Digital Visibility Index, measured 27 August 2026).

Who owns the first page

Across 12 keywords there are 120 first-page organic slots. The firms in this index hold 15 of them (12.5%); 81 distinct domains appear in total.

this index (15)   directories, national chains and firms not indexed (105)

Ranking well but not currently indexed:

• nhs.uk — 13 top-10 slots, best #1
• bupa.co.uk — 9 top-10 slots, best #1
• thebristoldentist.co.uk — 8 top-10 slots, best #1
• cliftonsmiles.com — 5 top-10 slots, best #2
• lodgecausewaydentalcentre.com — 5 top-10 slots, best #2

87.5% 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	66	43	88	69	47	60	100
2	Redland Road Dental Practice	60	64	75	80	46	20	67
3	Clifton Down Dental Practice	59	68	100	76	23	20	33
4	Bristol Dental Specialists	57	59	88	80	35	0	67
5	Dental Touch	56	57	88	79	33	20	33
6	Zetland Road Dental Practice	52	82	88	70	4	0	33
7	Promenade Dental	50	28	100	77	14	0	67
8	Windmill Hill Smiles	50	56	75	80	29	0	33
9	DentaQuest Clifton	34	—	50	75	17	0	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.

	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	37	10	22		23	22	37	72	47	2		2
Redland Road Dental Practice	6	6	6	20	34	26	38	41		22	17	21
Clifton Down Dental Practice	28					70			54	8		5
Bristol Dental Specialists	19	18	23			1	5	16	10		21
Dental Touch	21	26	18	10	12		39	30	32
Zetland Road Dental Practice							14
Promenade Dental					51			11			1
Windmill Hill Smiles	20	19	27	44	9	39		8
DentaQuest Clifton					25	13		37	29

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. 2 of 9 appear in all three.

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

2 of 9 firms are visible in all three channels. 2 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 ↑

Bristol Dental Specialists is the widest split: search surfaces it far more readily than AI engines name it (visibility 35, 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.

Promenade Dental	Promenade Dental — teeth whitening Bristol		#11
Dental Touch	Dental Touch — emergency dentist Bristol		#12
DentaQuest Clifton	DentaQuest Clifton — cosmetic dentistry Bristol		#13
Zetland Road Dental Practice	Zetland Road Dental Practice — dental implants Bristol		#14
Bristol Dental Specialists	Bristol Dental Specialists — teeth whitening Bristol		#16
Redland Road Dental Practice	Redland Road Dental Practice — dentist Bishopston		#17
Bristol Dental Specialists	Bristol Dental Specialists — best dentist Bristol		#18
Dental Touch	Dental Touch — private dentist Bristol		#18
Bristol Dental Specialists	Bristol Dental Specialists — dentist Bristol		#19
Windmill Hill Smiles	Windmill Hill Smiles — best dentist Bristol		#19

12 winnable positions across 7 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 13 to 522 and ratings 4.5 to 5, yet the Local pillar separates these firms by only 11 points — the raw figures discriminate where the score does not. Most reviews: Clifton Dental Surgery (522). 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

Searching “dentist near me” from 9 points across a 7.5-mile square, not one of the 9 firms in this index appeared in the local 3-pack at any location. The pack was held entirely by businesses outside the index.

Which bristol dentist has the best website?

Clifton Dental Surgery tops the Q3-2026 index with a Digital Visibility Score of 66/100. 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:

Phil Yarrow (PYC) — Local Digital Visibility Index: Bristol Dentist, Q3-2026. https://hub.pyc.agency/indices/bristol-dentists/

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