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Hornby Veterinary Centre

Veterinarian · Hornby-Islington, Christchurch

What your customers see when they look for you, and where that puts you among 64 Christchurch vets.

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Checked12 October 2026
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Hornby Veterinary Centre

Veterinarian · Hornby-Islington, Christchurch

Where you stand#14of 64 vets
Overall health7.9/10across the eight areas
How AI describes youMarketbase business report

What AI tells people about you

Hornby Veterinary Centre is a veterinary clinic in Hornby, Christchurch, offering a wide variety of services for local pets. Its team of veterinarians has individual areas of expertise, enabling both routine care and more advanced medical and surgical treatments. Customers can expect a neighbourhood clinic focused on ongoing pet health and practical, compassionate care.

Hornby Veterinary Centre is a veterinary clinic based in Hornby, Christchurch, providing a wide variety of veterinary services for animals in Hornby and the surrounding areas. The clinic describes itself as offering lifelong service, expertise and compassion to local pet owners.

The team includes veterinarians with individual areas of expertise, which allows the practice to provide both routine care and more advanced medical and surgical treatments. Services promoted by the clinic include comprehensive pet care tailored to individual needs and a breadth of clinical and surgical options arranged through those internal specialisations.

Customer feedback highlights a welcoming, knowledgeable team and professional, compassionate consultations. Reviews note helpful, accommodating staff who can sometimes adjust scheduling when needed, punctual appointments, and a friendly reception from both staff and pets. Several long-term clients mention multi-pet households and continued satisfaction over many years.

Locally, Hornby Veterinary Centre is positioned as a community-focused clinic combining general practice care with access to advanced treatments through veterinarians' differing specialities. The combination of long-term client relationships, accommodating service, and a team-based clinical approach is presented as a practical advantage for pet owners in Hornby and nearby suburbs.

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01Google listingMarketbase business report

Your Google listing

Hornby Veterinary Centre's Google Business Listing shows strong basic details and solid ownership, with a health score of 7.3 out of 10. The listing is claimed and verified, with a clear phone number and a working website link. Open-for-business status helps customers see availability. Overall health indicates room for minor optimisation in description and photos.

Strengths

  • ✓
    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

  • 1
    Description lengthYour description gives a reader less than half the listings here do, so someone reading yours and then a competitor's gets less to go on from 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 category set is one of the better-fitted in this market, so you are eligible for nearly every search happening around you.
11 checks on your Google listing. You're seeing 6 of them.
7.3Good
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Hornby Veterinary Centre✓✓
4.8 ★★★★★ (108)
Veterinarian · Hornby-Islington3
Open 6 days · late Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu and Fri ✓
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OverviewReviewsPhotosAbout
From the business

We are pleased to provide a wide variety of veterinary services for animals in Hornby and surrounding areas. Our veterinarians have individual areas of expertise which allow us to provide both routine and advanced medical and surgical treatments.

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Google listingChristchurch vets · 64 businesses
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02ReviewsMarketbase business report

Your reviews

Hornby Veterinary Centre shows an overall health score of 5.4 out of 10, indicating average performance in Google reviews. The most notable opportunities are the lack of responses to reviews and ongoing momentum in ratings and review counts. Customers are seeing room for improved engagement with feedback, while rating quality and volume show solid progress.

Strengths

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Top three opportunities

  • 1
    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.
  • 2
    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.
  • 3
    Review countYour review count sits under the middle of this market, so you are readable to a customer without yet being convincing.
4 checks on your reviews. You're seeing 3 of them.
4.8Room to grow
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4.8★★★★★108 reviews 3
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caring staff 19kind staff 9care for dogs 6affordable 5welcoming team 2clear instructions 2
2How far your rating and your review count together can be trusted
Google reviewsChristchurch vets · 64 businesses
You are #34 for your Google reviews
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03Map positionsMarketbase business report

Where you show up on the map

Hornby Veterinary Centre shows very high overall health in Google Maps search, with a 9.7/10 score. The borough-specific visibility is outstanding, placing in the top 10% locally. The business ranks highly on key domestic priorities and has several top keywords in first or second position, indicating strong local presence. A clear opportunity remains to lift aggregate scores across more suburbs.

Strengths

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    Maps visibility in your own suburbNo business in your suburb turns up in local Maps searches more often than you do - for a customer searching nearby, you are among the first names on the screen.

Top opportunity

  • 1
    Maps visibility across the city groupYou turn up across more of the surrounding suburbs than the middle of the field, so customers searching from outside your own patch are finding you.
2 checks on your map positions. You're seeing both.
7.3Good
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1Top three for "veterinarian" in 4 suburbs, seen in 20
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Hornby Veterinary Centre✓4.8 ★ (108) · Veterinarian
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Avonhead Veterinary Clinic4.7 ★ (289) · Veterinarian
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Wigram Vet Wigram4.8 ★ (224) · Veterinarian
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After Hours Veterinary Clinic3.6 ★ (209) · Veterinarian
Map positionsChristchurch vets · 64 businesses
You are #18 for map positions
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04Listings and socialMarketbase business report

Where customers find you

Hornby Veterinary Centre shows a very healthy overall presence with a 9.5/10 health score. Strengths include outstanding Facebook and Instagram profiles and accurate Neighbourly and Yellow Directory listings. The business should maintain high-quality content and consistent branding while continuing to keep profiles current to sustain trust and reach.

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.
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    Instagram ProfileWe found your Instagram Profile page, and the trail between you and it is unambiguous - it is linked from something you own, or it dominates a search for your name.
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    Neighbourly ProfileWe can see your Neighbourly Profile listing (https://www.neighbourly.co.nz/business/hornby-veterinary-centre) found via: Google search results.

Top three opportunities

  • 1
    Tiktok ProfileWe could not find an active TikTok account for your business, so anyone who looks for you there finds nothing.
  • 2
    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.
  • 3
    LinkedIn CompanyWe could not find an active LinkedIn Company listing for your business, which means anyone checking you there finds nothing and moves on to whoever is listed.
16 checks on your listings and social. You're seeing 6 of them.
10.0Strong
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FacebookHornbyVetHornby Veterinary Centre | Facebook✓
InstagramhornbyvetcentreHornby Veterinary Centre | Instagram✓
Best For Pet Clinichornby-veterinary-centreHornby Veterinary Centre | Best For Pet Clinic
Yelphornby-veterinary-centre-christchurchHornby Veterinary Centre | Yelp
Neighbourlyhornby-veterinary-centreHornby Veterinary Centre | Neighbourly✓
Yellow/hornby/veterinariansHornby Veterinary Centre | Yellow2
DogPack Servicehornby-veterinary-centreHornby Veterinary Centre | DogPack Service
TiktokNo account found1
YellowNo listing found2
LinkedInNo listing found3
Listings and socialChristchurch vets · 64 businesses
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05Facebook pageMarketbase business report

Your Facebook page

Strengths

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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.
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    A phone numberA phone number shows on your page, so the person who found you on Facebook before they found your website can ring straight from it.

Top two opportunities

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    What your page says about youYour intro runs to a line, shorter than most pages here, so it names the business without settling whether you do the particular job the reader came about or cover the suburb they live in.
  • 2
    People following your pageYour following sits ahead of half the pages here, so an ordinary post reaches a real local audience without you paying for it.
8 checks on your Facebook page. You're seeing 5 of them.
9.5Strong
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2K followers 2
http://www.hornbyvet.co.nz/ Lifelong service, expertise and compassion for your pet1
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🌐 hornbyvet.co.nz✓
☎ +64 3-349 5311✓
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Facebook pageChristchurch vets · 64 businesses
You are #4 for your Facebook page
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Your website

Hornby Veterinary Centre's on-page health scores well, with a high overall health score and solid completed items. The site already has a strong meta description and a valid favicon, plus an H1 tag and sufficient text for readers. The most impactful findings relate to page load speed and URL structure, which offer clear opportunities for improvement.

Strengths

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    Domain HealthYour site answers cleanly over a secure connection, so a customer clicking through from Google lands where they expect with nothing in the way.
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    Meta descriptionYour search summary sits in the length that reads in full on most screens, which is as far as length alone can take it - a narrow phone still cuts the tail off a line this size.
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    Domain UniquenessYour web address is yours alone, so everything your site earns - links, mentions, search standing - accumulates under your name and stays with the business.

Top three opportunities

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    Separate sites linking to youNo separate website links to yours.
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    The shape of your link profileNo links to your site were found, so there is no shape to read yet.
  • 3
    Pages linking to youVery few individual pages anywhere on the web link to yours, so there is almost nothing for search engines to follow back to you.
23 checks on your website. You're seeing 6 of them.
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How people find you on Google

Hornby Veterinary Centre shows solid website traffic health with a 7.3/10. The strongest showing is organic traffic value, which sits in the top percentile, indicating strong visibility. The main improvement is to translate existing organic momentum into paid channels and broaden keyword coverage to capture additional local search demand.

Strengths

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Top three opportunities

  • 1
    What you spend on adsWe can see no paid search activity for your site, which in most local markets is the norm rather than a gap.
  • 2
    Monthly ad visitsYour site receives no visitors from paid search, which for most local businesses in this market is the norm rather than a problem.
  • 3
    Search terms you advertise onYou are not covering any search terms with ads, which for most local businesses here is normal.
6 checks on your search and traffic. You're seeing 3 of them.
8.1Strong
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hornbyvet.co.nzHornby Veterinary Centre: Home

Our vet clinic offers comprehensive and affordable pet care services. Our services include preventive care, diagnostics, surgery, dental care, and more,

bestforpet.co.nzHornby Veterinary Centre - Best for Pet
About 1,778 visits a month from search, across 208 searches
Google search and trafficChristchurch vets · 64 businesses
You are #13 for Google search and traffic
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08Opening hoursMarketbase business report

Your hours against demand

Hornby Veterinary Centre's opening hours align well with weekday afternoon demand, covering many of the city's peak pet-care search periods. Strong alignment is seen on Tuesday and Thursday afternoons and Wednesday late afternoon. Missed opportunities are on weekend afternoons-especially Saturday 2-4pm-and early weekday mornings such as Monday and Thursday 7am. Low-demand open hours: none.

Strengths

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Top opportunity

  • 1
    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.
7.6Good
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Hornby Veterinary Centre
OverviewReviewsPhotosAbout
Hours 1
Monday8am-7pm
Tuesday8am-7pm
Wednesday8am-7pm
Thursday8am-7pm
Friday8am-7pm
Saturday8am-2pm
SundayClosed
Popular times Tuesday · Hornby-Islington
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Opening hoursChristchurch vets · 64 businesses
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01Google listing3 opportunities

02Reviews3 opportunities

03Map positions1 opportunity

04Listings and social3 opportunities

05Facebook page2 opportunities

06Your website3 opportunities

07Google search and traffic3 opportunities

08Opening hours1 opportunity

Where you'd stand#14of 64 Christchurch vets
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Christchurch vetsOverall · 64 businesses
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