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Dental Touch — Bristol Dentist Digital Visibility Score

Digital Visibility Score: 57 / 100 · Rank 5 of 9

Measured 5 October 2026 via the PYC Bristol Dentist Digital Visibility Index. Every figure is objective and reproducible from the methodology. Spotted an error? Request a correction.

Each pillar scored 0–100 against the sector median for this index. The final column is this firm's distance from that median.
PillarScoreMedianvs median
Speed & CWV5862−4
Technical8888level
Local presence9184+7
Visibility2117+4
AI search presence00level
Content & trust6670−4
Pillar performance against the sector median. Bars right of centre are above the median, left are below.
Speed & CWV-4
Technical0
Local presence+7
Visibility+4
AI search presence0
Content & trust-4
These are specific, checkable faults on the site — not opinions about it.
  • Worth fixingStructured data present, but no LocalBusiness markupThe page describes something to machines, but not that it is a local business with an address and opening hours.
  • Worth knowingThe site has not changed in a long timeThe homepage last reported a change 10.5 years ago.
Ranks for 5 of 12 keywords, average position 18.4, in the local 3-pack for 0 keywords.
KeywordPosition
dentist Bristol#15
best dentist Bristolnot in top 100
private dentist Bristol#16
NHS dentist Bristol#8
emergency dentist Bristolnot in top 100
cosmetic dentistry Bristolnot in top 100
dental implants Bristolnot in top 100
teeth whitening Bristolnot in top 100
invisalign Bristol#26
dentist Cliftonnot in top 100
dentist Bishopstonnot in top 100
dental practice Clifton#27
This firm against the sector median and the index leader, Clifton Dental Surgery, on every pillar.
Speed & CWV58
Technical88
Local presence91
Visibility21
AI search presence0
Content & trust66

this firm sector median leader

Dental Touch trails Clifton Dental Surgery by 124 points across 3 pillars, but 83% of that is AI search presence and Visibility alone. It already matches or beats the leader on Speed & CWV, Technical, Local presence.

Ranked between #11 and #20 — one page from the first, ordered by how close.
dentist Bristol#15
private dentist Bristol#16

2 positions sit between #11 and #20 — one page away, and the cheapest ranking work available to this firm.

Named in 0 of 5 AI answers. A domain citation is stronger evidence than a name mention.
✗Who are the best dentists in Bristol?
✗Which dental practice in Bristol would you recommend?
✗Top rated private dentists in Bristol
✗I need to register with a dentist in Bristol - who should I contact?
✗Best dentist in Clifton, Bristol
Google Business Profile.
Rating4.8 / 5
Reviews125
Locations1
Reviews in last 90 days12
Address matches websiteyes
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.
PillarScoreMade up of
Content & trust66about page: no · people introduced: yes · credentials: yes · blog or news: yes · homepage: 744 words · last changed: 3834 days ago
Visibility21ranks for 5 of 12 keywords · average position 18.4 · local 3-pack: 0
Local presence91125 reviews · rated 4.8 · 12 new in 90 days
Technical88HTTPS: yes · page allows indexing: yes · robots.txt allows crawling: yes · sitemap: yes · structured data: yes
  • No pillar falls materially below the sector median this quarter.

Clifton Dental Surgery leads the index with 72/100. The largest gaps are: AI search presence (0 vs 80); Visibility (21 vs 44); Content & trust (66 vs 87).

  1. Publish structured, citable content and entity schema so AI engines surface the business for core local queries.
  2. Build local landing pages for the core keyword basket to lift organic and local-pack appearance.
  3. Cut mobile LCP below 2.5s (optimise images and remove render-blocking resources) — the biggest score and ranking lever.
The firms nearest Dental Touch in this ranking, beyond the two either side.
FirmRankScoreWhy it is here
Bristol Dental Specialists#365/1002 places above you
Windmill Hill Smiles#754/1002 places below you
DentaQuest Clifton#266/1003 places above you
Promenade Dental#853/1003 places below you
Recorded alongside the measurement to make it easier to judge, but carrying no weight in the Digital Visibility Score. See the methodology.
Companies HouseNo confident match on the registered name
Real-user speed (CrUX)Too little traffic to appear in Chrome’s public dataset
Lighthouse (lab, mobile)Performance 64 · accessibility 68 · best practices 96 · SEO 85 — biggest losses: Network dependency tree; Reduce unused JavaScript; Links do not have descriptive text
Backlinks101 referring domains · 382 links · rank 152 · 72 broken
Site structure25 pages crawled · 49.2 internal links per page · reachable in: team 1 click · 3% of links use a generic anchor
Sitemap8 URLs listed · declared in robots.txt · newest entry 350 days old · 5 of 5 sampled URLs resolve

Dental Touch’s lowest-scoring pillars among those we publish remediation guidance for:


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.