Hydes of Bristol — Bristol Estate Agent Digital Visibility Score

Digital Visibility Score: 47 / 100 · Rank 14 of 18

Digital Visibility Score47/100Rank 14 of 18One page from the first2Closest: best estate agents Bristol at #17Furthest behind-61.5Local presence: 22 against a sector median of 83.5

Measured 3 October 2026 via the PYC Bristol Estate Agent Digital Visibility Index. Every figure is objective and reproducible from the methodology. Spotted an error? Request a correction.

Pillar breakdown vs sector median

Each pillar scored 0–100 against the sector median for this index. The final column is this firm's distance from that median.

Pillar	Score	Median	vs median
Speed & CWV	30	70	−40
Technical	100	88	+12
Local presence	22	83.5	−61.5
Visibility	17	13	+4
AI search presence	40	0	+40
Content & trust	80	62	+18

Pillar performance against the sector median. Bars right of centre are above the median, left are below.

Speed & CWV		-40
Technical		+12
Local presence		-61.5
Visibility		+4
AI search presence		+40
Content & trust		+18

Where this firm ranks

Ranks for 4 of 12 keywords, average position 13, in the local 3-pack for 0 keywords.

Keyword	Position
estate agents Bristol	not in top 100
best estate agents Bristol	#17
top estate agents Bristol	not in top 100
letting agents Bristol	not in top 100
sell my house Bristol	not in top 100
house valuation Bristol	not in top 100
property for sale Bristol	not in top 100
estate agent fees Bristol	#8
rental properties Bristol	not in top 100
estate agents Clifton	#8
estate agents Redland	not in top 100
letting agents Clifton	#19

The gap to the leader

This firm against the sector median and the index leader, CJ Hole, on every pillar.

Speed & CWV		30
Technical		100
Local presence		22
Visibility		17
AI search presence		40
Content & trust		80

this firm sector median leader

Hydes of Bristol trails CJ Hole by 117 points across 3 pillars, but 88% of that is Local presence and Speed & CWV alone. It already matches or beats the leader on Technical, AI search presence, Content & trust.

Closest to the first page

Ranked between #11 and #20 — one page from the first, ordered by how close.

best estate agents Bristol		#17
letting agents Clifton		#19

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

AI search presence

Named in 2 of 5 AI answers. A domain citation is stronger evidence than a name mention.

✗	Who are the best estate agents in Bristol?
✗	Which estate agent in Bristol would you recommend for selling a house?
✗	Top rated letting agents in Bristol
✓	I am looking for an estate agent in Bristol - who should I contact?	cited by domain
✓	Best estate agents in Clifton, Bristol	cited by domain

Why this score

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.

Pillar	Score	Made up of
Content & trust	80	about page: yes · people introduced: yes · credentials: no · blog or news: yes · homepage: 1,376 words
Visibility	17	ranks for 4 of 12 keywords · average position 13 · local 3-pack: 0
Local presence	22	0 reviews · 0 new in 90 days
Technical	100	HTTPS: yes · page allows indexing: yes · robots.txt allows crawling: yes · sitemap: yes · structured data: yes

Key findings

• Speed & CWV: 30/100, below the sector median of 70.
• Local presence: 22/100, below the sector median of 83.5.

How this compares to the leader

CJ Hole leads the index with 67/100. The largest gaps are: Local presence (22 vs 83); Speed & CWV (30 vs 72); Visibility (17 vs 31).

Top fixes (ranked by impact)

1. Build local landing pages for the core keyword basket to lift organic and local-pack appearance.
2. Restart Google review generation and complete the Business Profile to close the local-pack gap.
3. Cut mobile LCP below 2.5s (optimise images and remove render-blocking resources) — the biggest score and ranking lever.

Firms ranked near this one

The firms nearest Hydes of Bristol in this ranking, beyond the two either side.

Firm	Rank	Score	Why it is here
Maggs & Allen	#12	56/100	2 places above you
Leese & Nagle	#16	44/100	2 places below you
Elephant Estate Agents	#11	56/100	3 places above you
Edison Ford	#17	40/100	3 places below you

Context (not scored)

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 OC443785 · 4.1 years old · active
Real-user speed (CrUX)	Too little traffic to appear in Chrome’s public dataset
Lighthouse (lab, mobile)	Performance 35 · accessibility 87 · best practices 96 · SEO 100 — biggest losses: Reduce unused CSS; Layout shift culprits; Network dependency tree
Backlinks	123 referring domains · 298 links · rank 223 · 138 broken
Site structure	25 pages crawled · 48.2 internal links per page · reachable in: contact 1 click, about 1 click, team 1 click · 0% of links use a generic anchor
Sitemap	215 URLs listed · declared in robots.txt · newest entry 0 days old · 5 of 5 sampled URLs resolve

Where to get this fixed

Hydes of Bristol’s lowest-scoring pillars among those we publish remediation guidance for:

• Visibility (17/100) — read topical authority on why ranking breadth across a sector beats chasing single terms. Background on analysing this pillar: visibility.
• Local presence (22/100) — read local case studies on what moving these signals did for comparable service businesses. Background on analysing this pillar: local presence.

↑ Ranked aboveBesley Hill#13 · 51/100 Full indexAll 18 firms ↓ Ranked belowConnells Bristol#15 · 44/100

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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.