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Head Rush Hornby

Hairdresser · Hornby-Islington, Christchurch

What your customers see when they look for you, and where that puts you among 498 Christchurch hair salons & barbers.

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Checked13 October 2026
Your marketChristchurch hair salons & barbers · 498 businesses
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Head Rush Hornby

Hairdresser · Hornby-Islington, Christchurch

Where you stand#283of 498 hair salons & barbers
Overall health4.3/10across the eight areas
How AI describes youMarketbase business report

What AI tells people about you

Head Rush Hair Salon is a hair salon in Hornby, Christchurch, offering cuts, colour and styling from a small local team. Clients book for services such as colour corrections, bridal and bridesmaid styling, and tailored consultations. Review themes note a warm, professional approach and careful consultations, with customers often mentioning fixes for previous salon mistakes and a helpful new-client package.

Head Rush Hair Salon operates in Hornby, Christchurch, providing hair services from a compact local team. The salon lists general hair services including cuts, colour work and styling, and notes bridal and bridesmaid hair and makeup among its offered services.

The team at Head Rush describes targeted work such as colour corrections and personalised consultations. Reviews reference specific staff members handling corrective colour work and trial styling; the salon also offers a new-client package intended to introduce clients to their process.

Customers report a consistently warm and professional experience, with staff taking time during consultations and making detailed notes. Several reviews describe being helped after poor results elsewhere, and highlight careful, thorough consultations and attentive service from named stylists.

Locally, Head Rush Hair Salon presents as a Hornby salon that focuses on consultative styling and corrective colour work, alongside event styling for bridal parties. The combination of a new-client package, emphasis on thorough consultations, and specific mentions of corrective work helps distinguish the salon within its neighbourhood.

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01Google listingMarketbase business report

Your Google listing

Head Rush Hair Salon shows an above-average health score of 6.8/10 for its Google Business Listing, indicating solid basic setup with room to improve. The listing already has claimed status, open-for-business status, a website link, a title, and a phone number. Key strengths include clear contact details and availability, while opportunities focus on enriching the description and photos.

Strengths

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    Open statusYour listing shows the business as trading, so customers see accurate availability and Google treats the listing as live.
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    ClaimedYour listing is claimed, so you control what it says, you can reply to reviews, and edits suggested by the public come to you first.
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    NameYour business name is showing on the listing, so a customer searching for you by name finds you, and everything else on the listing hangs off it.

Top three opportunities

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    Description lengthYour description is far shorter than what most businesses here have written, which means a customer comparing listings gets a line from you and three paragraphs from the business beside you.
  • 2
    Photos on the listingThere are more pictures on most listings around you than on yours, so a customer flicking between them gets a fuller look at the businesses either side of you.
  • 3
    Category fitYour categories cover this market better than the middle of the field, so you appear in most of the searches your competitors appear in.
11 checks on your Google listing. You're seeing 6 of them.
6.4Good
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5.0 ★★★★★ (11)
Hairdresser · Hornby-Islington3
Open 5 days · late Wed and Thu ✓
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Hair Salon in Hornby, Christchurch

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Google listingChristchurch hair salons & barbers · 498 businesses
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02ReviewsMarketbase business report

Your reviews

Head Rush Hair Salon's Google Business presence shows an overall health score of 3.4 out of 10, which is below average for the local market. The business has a strong star rating in the top 10% and is actively gathering reviews, but has not yet responded to any reviews. Focused engagement with customers through review replies could lift trust and perception, while continued review collection would improve overall standing.

Strengths

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    Star ratingYour rating is among the highest in this market and it does its own selling - a customer sees it before they read anything else.

Top three opportunities

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    Response rateNone of your reviews have a reply, which means a customer reading them sees your happiest and your angriest customers with nothing from you in between.
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    Review countYour review count sits well below what buyers here are used to seeing, which means a customer comparing options side by side reads you as the less proven choice.
  • 3
    Review confidenceYour rating and your review count together sit behind half the businesses here, so a customer weighing three listings has slightly less reason to trust yours.
4 checks on your reviews. You're seeing all of them.
2.9Room to grow
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3How far your rating and your review count together can be trusted
Google reviewsChristchurch hair salons & barbers · 498 businesses
You are #352 for your Google reviews
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Where you show up on the map

Head Rush Hair Salon shows a high overall Google Maps health score of 7.8/10, indicating strong visibility, with room to broaden reach beyond the core suburb. The borough score has improved above the bottom quartile, suggesting growing local presence in Hornby and surrounding areas.

Strengths

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Top two opportunities

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    Maps visibility in your own suburbYou show up in local Maps searches less often than half your suburb, so on a search from nearby you sit below businesses a customer would otherwise treat as equal.
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    Maps visibility across the city groupYou turn up across more of the surrounding suburbs than nearly everyone here, so a customer searching well outside your own patch still sees you.
2 checks on your map positions. You're seeing both.
8.0Strong
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2Top three for "unisex hairdresser" in 1 suburb, seen in 5
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Bellsie's Hair & Beauty Salon5.0 ★ (55) · Hairdresser
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Trends Hair Beauty and Nails4.7 ★ (104) · Hairdresser
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Rodney Wayne Hornby4.5 ★ (214) · Hairdresser
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Synergy Hair Hornby4.4 ★ (34) · Hairdresser
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Map positionsChristchurch hair salons & barbers · 498 businesses
You are #102 for map positions
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Where customers find you

Head Rush Hair Salon shows a below-average health score of 3.9/10 for social presence and directories, suggesting limited reach. The strongest current asset is a very high trust Facebook profile, with ongoing opportunities to improve by expanding Instagram reach and adding TikTok, NoSecretSalon, LinkedIn personal, and LinkedIn company presence to broaden visibility.

Strengths

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    Having a Facebook page at allWe found your Facebook Profile page, and the trail is strong enough that nobody would question it is yours - it is linked from something you own, or it dominates a search for your name.

Top three opportunities

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    Instagram ProfileWe found your Instagram Profile page through search rather than through anything you own.
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    Tiktok ProfileWe could not find an active TikTok account for your business, so anyone who looks for you there finds nothing.
  • 3
    Yellow ProfileWe could not find an active Yellow Profile listing for your business, which means anyone checking you there finds nothing and moves on to whoever is listed.
14 checks on your listings and social. You're seeing 4 of them.
4.4Room to grow
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FacebookheadrushhairnbeautyFound through search, not linked from anything you own✓
Instagramhead_rush_hairFound through search, not linked from anything you own1
TiktokNo account found2
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Listings and socialChristchurch hair salons & barbers · 498 businesses
You are #277 for listings and social
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Your Facebook page

Strengths

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    People following your pageYours is one of the largest local followings in this market.
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    Where your page link pointsThe link on your page goes to a domain that is yours, so a visitor who came for the photos leaves on your terms and the enquiry lands in your inbox rather than someone else's.
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    A page address you choseThe address on your page carries your business name, so a customer told about you at a barbecue can find the page by typing what they heard.

Top three opportunities

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    A phone numberNo phone number is published on your Facebook page, so someone who found you there and wants to ring has to go hunting elsewhere or send a message and wait.
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    A street addressYour page publishes no street address, so someone deciding whether you are near enough to bother with has nothing to check and moves on to a page that tells them.
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    What your page says about youThere is more in your intro than in half the pages here, so a visitor has a real sense of the business before they reach the photos.
8 checks on your Facebook page. You're seeing 6 of them.
7.2Good
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Thanks for visiting the Head Rush FB page! Award winning salon & stylists Sydenham (03)3778180 Rangiora (03)3136656 Merivale (03)42147493
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Facebook pageChristchurch hair salons & barbers · 498 businesses
You are #139 for your Facebook page
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Your website

Head Rush Hair Salon shows a fragile on-page SEO health score of 4.5 out of 10, indicating limited technical optimisation on the homepage. The most important findings relate to missing meta description and title tag, and a slow page load time above 3 seconds. Addressing these areas should improve click-through rates and user experience while laying a stronger baseline for further optimisation.

Strengths

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Top three opportunities

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    On-page scoreYour home page did not return anything we can measure, and a page that will not answer a scanner is usually the same page that keeps a customer waiting.
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    Separate sites linking to youNo separate website links to yours.
  • 3
    Meta descriptionYour pages carry no summary line of your own, so the two lines under your name in search results are whatever Google decides best fits the search.
23 checks on your website. You're seeing 3 of them.
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How people find you on Google

Head Rush Hair Salon shows a mixed website traffic health with a score of 4.5 out of 10 and limited organic visibility. The most important findings indicate near-zero organic traffic value and no top-100 organic keywords, suggesting a need for content and on-page SEO improvements. Paid activity is also unclear, with potential opportunities to start targeted paid campaigns.

Strengths

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Top three opportunities

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    What that traffic is worthSearch is delivering you nothing you would otherwise have to pay for.
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    Monthly search visitsYour site draws no measurable visitors from search, so the only people reaching it are ones you sent yourself.
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    Search terms you rank forYour site does not appear in search results for any terms we can measure, so nobody is finding it by searching for what you do.
6 checks on your search and traffic. You're seeing 3 of them.
0.0Room to grow
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Google search and trafficChristchurch hair salons & barbers · 498 businesses
You are #212 for Google search and traffic
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Your hours against demand

Head Rush Hair Salon's hours mostly match local demand, with strong alignment mid-day on Saturdays and Tuesdays around 11am-1pm. However, several high-demand Monday lunch hours and a Tuesday late afternoon and Sunday mid-afternoon peak occur while the salon is closed, representing missed bookings. No low-demand open hours were flagged. Consider targeted openings at missed peaks or a limited extra shift to capture demand.

Strengths

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Top opportunity

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    Hours aligned with demandYour hours cover some of the busy stretches but fewer than half the businesses here, which means someone ringing round on a Saturday morning reaches your competitors and your voicemail.
1 check on your opening hours. You're seeing it.
5.5Room to grow
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Head Rush Hornby
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Hours 1
MondayClosed
Tuesday9am-4pm
Wednesday10am-9pm
Thursday10am-9pm
Friday9am-5pm
Saturday9am-4pm
SundayClosed
Popular times Sunday · Hornby-Islington
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Opening hoursChristchurch hair salons & barbers · 498 businesses
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These are your top 21 opportunities, from the 69 checks we run on every business. Tick any of them to see where it takes you.

01Google listing3 opportunities

02Reviews3 opportunities

03Map positions2 opportunities

04Listings and social3 opportunities

05Facebook page3 opportunities

06Your website3 opportunities

07Google search and traffic3 opportunities

08Opening hours1 opportunity

Where you'd stand#283of 498 Christchurch hair salons & barbers
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Christchurch hair salons & barbersOverall · 498 businesses
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