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.
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 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.
This firm against the sector median and the index leader, Clifton Dental Surgery, on every pillar.
Speed & CWV
63
Technical
75
Local presence
91
Visibility
17
AI search presence
0
Content & trust
55
this firm sector median leader
Windmill Hill Smiles trails Clifton Dental Surgery by 152 points across 4 pillars, but 74% of that is AI search presence and Content & trust alone. It already matches or beats the leader on Speed & CWV, Local presence.
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.
Clifton Dental Surgery leads the index with 72/100. The largest gaps are: AI search presence (0 vs 80); Content & trust (55 vs 87); Visibility (17 vs 44).
Publish structured, citable content and entity schema so AI engines surface the business for core local queries.
Build local landing pages for the core keyword basket to lift organic and local-pack appearance.
Introduce the people who do the work, on an about or team page and the credentials that matter in this sector (GDC registration, CQC rating), and refresh stale content.
Visibility (17/100) — read topical authority on why ranking breadth across a sector beats chasing single terms. Background on analysing this pillar: visibility.