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Ourvets Parklands Veterinary Clinic

Veterinarian · Parklands, 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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Ourvets Parklands Veterinary Clinic

Veterinarian · Parklands, Christchurch

Where you stand#16of 64 vets
Overall health7.6/10across the eight areas

Going well

01Google listing9.205Facebook page9.002Reviews6.5

Where we can help

03Map positions4.607Google search and traffic4.008Opening hours3.704Listings and social3.006Your website-
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What AI tells people about you

Ourvets Parklands Veterinary Clinic is a veterinary practice in Parklands, Christchurch, providing six-day-a-week care for cats, dogs, guinea pigs, rats, mice and birds. The clinic offers advanced imaging and in-house diagnostics, including the South Island's only veterinary CT scanner, digital radiography and ultrasonography, alongside surgical and medical services for a broad range of pets.

Ourvets Parklands Veterinary Clinic is located at 438 Mairehau Rd in Parklands, Christchurch. The clinic operates six days a week and treats a variety of pets including cats, dogs, guinea pigs, rats, mice and birds.

The clinic lists advanced diagnostic and imaging capabilities, including the South Island's only veterinary CT scanner, digital radiography and ultrasonography. It also provides in-house diagnostics and a range of clinical services covering animal medicine, orthopaedic and soft tissue surgeries, oncology and cardiorespiratory medicine, including echocardiography.

Customers commonly describe the team as friendly, caring and informative, noting helpful reception staff and vets who explain options and give time for decisions. Reviews cite trust in the team's approach to difficult choices and appreciation for clear information and compassionate care during sensitive cases.

Locally, the clinic combines high-end imaging and in-house testing with a team of experienced vets and veterinary nurses. That mix supports both routine veterinary care and more specialised diagnostic or surgical needs for a wide range of pets in the Parklands and greater Christchurch area.

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01Google listingMarketbase business report

Your Google listing

Health score on Google Business Listing for Ourvets Parklands Veterinary Clinic is very high at 9.2 out of 10, indicating strong completeness and reliability of the listing. The most important findings are that the listing is claimed and verified, with an open-for-business status, a visible listing title, a website link, and a phone number. The area to improve focuses on adding fresh photos to move toward the local midpoint and further elevating the description to reach the top 10%.

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

  • 1
    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.
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    Description lengthYour description is one of the fuller ones in this market, which means a customer comparing you side by side has more of your case in front of them than most.
  • 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.
9.2Strong
What customers seeWhere you rank
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Ourvets Parklands Veterinary Clinic
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4.5 ★★★★★ (203)
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From the business

Ourvets Parklands is your pet's Christchurch Vet & Veterinary Clinic providing services 6 days a week. Ourvets has the South Island's only veterinary CT scanner, digital radiography, ultrasonography, in-house diagnostics and a team of highly experienced and dedicated vets and veterinary nurses to cater for your pet's needs. Our capabilities include animal medicine, orthopaedic and soft tissue surgeries, oncology and cardiorespiratory medicine including echocardiography. We recognise the significance of your pets and the place they hold in your family. We treat a vareity of pets including cats, dogs, guinea pigs, rats, mice and birds.

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Google listingChristchurch vets · 64 businesses
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02ReviewsMarketbase business report

Your reviews

Ourvets Parklands Veterinary Clinic shows an average health score of 5.6 out of 10 for Google reviews, indicating moderate performance in the local market. The business has a solid start with at least one review and a growing pool of feedback. Engagement metrics are rising, and there is momentum in owner responses and overall review counts.

Strengths

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Top three opportunities

  • 1
    Star ratingYour rating sits well below what customers here are used to seeing, and it is the first number they compare when two businesses look otherwise equal.
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    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 above the middle of this market, which puts you in the group customers read as established rather than untested.
4 checks on your reviews. You're seeing 3 of them.
6.5Good
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
Ourvets Parklands Veterinary Clinic
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Sharyn L.★★★★★ · 4 months ago

Thankyou so much Rachael and staff for your kind , caring and the compassion you gave to us on making a heartbreaking decision with our beautiful Honey yesterday such a sad time but she's at peace nw 😿

Response from the owner

Hi Sharyn, thank you very much for taking the time to leave your review. From all the team at Ourvets Parklands Veterinary Clinic

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Peter P.★★★★★ · 5 months ago

I couldn't be more pleased with the service, the staff and vet were excellent. Chelsea got the best care and seems to be making a recovery. I won't hesitate to go back if Chelsea needs it again.

Response from the owner

Thank you for the great review, Peter! We really appreciate your support. Cheers from all the team at Ourvets Parklands Veterinary Clinic

Google reviewsChristchurch vets · 64 businesses
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03Map positionsMarketbase business report

Where you show up on the map

Ourvets Parklands Veterinary Clinic shows very high health in Google Maps search, indicating strong local visibility. The top opportunities focus on improving the aggregate Maps search score and pushing suburb performance into the top quartile. Notable keywords rank highly, especially for animal hospital and veterinary services in Parklands and surrounding areas.

Strengths

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Top two opportunities

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    Maps visibility across the city groupYou turn up across fewer of the surrounding suburbs than half the businesses here, so someone two suburbs over searching for your service is shown your competitors and never sees your name.
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    Maps visibility in your own suburbYou show up in local Maps searches more often than nearly every business in your suburb, so a customer searching nearby sees you before most of your competition.
2 checks on your map positions. You're seeing both.
4.6Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
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1Top three for "animal hospital" in 3 suburbs, seen in 14
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Ourvets Parklands Veterinary Clinic24.5 ★ (203) · Veterinarian
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After Hours Veterinary Clinic3.6 ★ (209) · Veterinarian
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Northlands Animal Care Hospital4.7 ★ (296) · Veterinarian
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K9HQ Vet Services4.8 ★ (137) · Veterinarian
Map positionsChristchurch vets · 64 businesses
You are #35 for map positions
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04Listings and socialMarketbase business report

Where customers find you

Ourvets Parklands Veterinary Clinic shows a below-average social presence despite a strong Facebook page and a solid Yellow Directory listing, with an overall health score of 2.9 out of 10. The top finding is the absence of active profiles on Instagram, TikTok, Neighbourly, LinkedIn and Yellow, which limits local visibility and trust signals for new customers.

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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    TopVet PracticeWe can see your TopVet Practice listing (https://topvet.net/ourvets-parklands-veterinary-clinic-26900) found via: Google search results.

Top three opportunities

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    Instagram ProfileWe could not find an active Instagram Profile profile for your business, so a customer who looks for you there finds nothing.
  • 2
    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.
16 checks on your listings and social. You're seeing 5 of them.
3.0Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
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Facebookourvets.christchurchOurvets Parklands Veterinary Clinic | Facebook✓
TopVet Practiceourvets-parklands-veterinary-clinic-26900Ourvets Parklands Veterinary Clinic | TopVet Practice✓
DogPack Serviceourvets-parklands-veterinary-clinicOurvets Parklands Veterinary Clinic | DogPack Service
Best For Pet Clinicourvets-parklands-veterinary-practiceOurvets Parklands Veterinary Clinic | Best For Pet Clinic
Kwister Animals8025-ourvets-parklandsOurvets Parklands Veterinary Clinic | Kwister Animals
Yellow/Parklands/Our+VetsOurvets Parklands Veterinary Clinic | Yellow3
InstagramNo account found1
TiktokNo account found2
YellowNo listing found3
Listings and socialChristchurch vets · 64 businesses
You are #45 for listings and social
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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.
9.0Strong
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
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Ourvets St Albans | Christchurch✓
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Caring for your pets 6 days a week at our Cranford St location1
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🌐 ourvetsstalbans.co.nz✓
☎ +64 3-355 6747✓
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Facebook pageChristchurch vets · 64 businesses
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Your website

Ourvets Parklands Veterinary Clinic shows a very high on-page SEO health score of 8.9 out of 10, indicating strong technical foundations. The site already has a solid meta description and a live favicon, with an H1 tag in place and frames avoided. Two key findings are that the meta description is optimal in length and the favicon is present, supporting search visibility.

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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    The shape of your link profileYour links come from about as wide a range of sites as anything in this market, and the mix of link types looks entirely natural.
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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.

Top three opportunities

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    On-page scoreMost checks on your home page pass, so someone clicking through from a search gets a page that opens quickly and says what it is.
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    Separate sites linking to youMore separate websites link to you than half the businesses here, so a reasonable spread of places vouch for you.
  • 3
    Pages linking to youFewer pages link to you than half the businesses here, which means a customer researching your trade reads someone else's explanation of it rather than yours.
23 checks on your website. You're seeing 6 of them.
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What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
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✓Meta description
1On-page score
2Separate sites linking to you
3Pages linking to you
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How people find you on Google

Ourvets Parklands Veterinary Clinic shows an overall traffic health of 4.3 out of 10, indicating average performance for local market peers. Organic traffic is improving but paid traffic remains largely untapped. Key findings: organic traffic sits above the bottom quartile and could grow with keyword refinements and better navigation; paid traffic has little to no measurable spend or impressions, suggesting an initial paid campaign is needed.

Strengths

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Top three opportunities

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    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.
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    Monthly search visitsYour site draws fewer visitors from search than most businesses here, so most people looking for what you do are landing somewhere else.
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    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.
6 checks on your search and traffic. You're seeing 3 of them.
4.0Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
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ourvetsparklands.co.nzOurvets Parklands Veterinary Clinic - 438 Mairehau Rd ...

At Ourvets Parklands, we are dedicated to providing top-tier veterinary care for your cherished pets across Christchurch, Monday to Friday.

bestforpet.co.nzOurvets Parklands Veterinary Clinic - Best for Pet
2About 317 visits a month from search, across 76 searches
Google search and trafficChristchurch vets · 64 businesses
You are #39 for Google search and traffic
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08Opening hoursMarketbase business report

Your hours against demand

Ourvets Parklands shows a mixed fit between published hours and local demand. The clinic is open during several high-demand weekday afternoons (Tuesday-Thursday 3-4pm), which aligns well with customer search patterns. However it is closed during several weekend and late-afternoon peaks (Saturday mid-morning and weekday 5pm slots), creating missed commercial opportunities. No hours appear open during low-demand periods.

Strengths

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Top opportunity

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    Hours aligned with demandYour hours line up with demand worse than nearly every business here, which means a good share of your open time passes with nobody looking for what you do.
1 check on your opening hours. You're seeing it.
3.7Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
Ourvets Parklands Veterinary Clinic
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Hours 1
Monday8am-5pm
Tuesday8am-5pm
Wednesday8am-5pm
Thursday8am-5pm
Friday8am-5pm
SaturdayClosed
SundayClosed
Popular times Thursday · Parklands
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Opening hoursChristchurch vets · 64 businesses
You are #41 for opening hours
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01Google listing3 opportunities

02Reviews3 opportunities

03Map positions2 opportunities

04Listings and social3 opportunities

05Facebook page2 opportunities

06Your website3 opportunities

07Google search and traffic3 opportunities

08Opening hours1 opportunity

Where you'd stand#16of 64 Christchurch vets
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Christchurch vetsOverall · 64 businesses
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