Spokane local-SEO audit · prepared for

Veterinarian in Spokane, WA

87
Score · 100 point composite
Strong
Across PageSpeed Insights mobile + desktop, on-page hygiene, structured-data adoption, Google Business Profile completeness, and local-pack visibility. Measured June 19, 2026.

Rank 2 of 6 in Spokane veterinary. That's a real position. For "best veterinary clinic spokane," you're sitting at #2 organic — huntervet.com is the only site above you. Your 4.7 rating across 876 reviews gives Google a strong trust signal, and your localization is clean: city name in both your title and meta, which is exactly what it should be. Two things are holding the score at 87. Your page has multiple H1 tags. Google reads the H1 as the primary topic declaration for a page — two of them creates ambiguity about which one to weight. The fix is structural and fast. The second gap is a Lighthouse SEO score below 90, which flags technical rendering or metadata issues that reduce how cleanly Googlebot can process the page. The report below shows exactly where both gaps live and what to address first.

1Your Spokane Standing

#2 of 6
The Standing
Veterinarian in Spokane, WA ranks #2 of 6 Veterinary we track in Spokane.

Top third of the field. The lead is real — the rows below show how durable it is, and where the sites behind you are closing.

Rank
Business
1
Garland Animal Clinic· leader
1051,603 rev4.6
2
You
99876 rev4.7
3
Spokane competitor
95847 rev4.4
4
Spokane competitor
9060 rev3.9
5
Spokane competitor
83424 rev4.7
6
Spokane competitor
76349 rev4.2

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Composite score blends on-page, reputation, and local-search signals. Full methodology at /data.

The Spokane Veterinary field
5 tracked · snapshot August 31, 2026
Median audit score
78field
87
Have LocalBusiness schema
60%field
you do
Median Google reviews
424field
876
Median mobile load
8.6sfield
8.4s

This is the field you're measured against — every Spokane Veterinary we track, captured and time-stamped. The gaps below are your position inside it.

2Where Customers Decide

Reviews · trust signal
The Signal Customers Actually Check
One Spokane competitor is ahead of you on the signal customers actually check.

Reviews are the one ranking signal your customers read before they ever load your site. Google reads it too — review volume and rating feed the local pack directly.

Where You Sit on Spokane Veterinary Reviews
median 424
1,603
floor 60
Garland Animal Clinic
you 876
You
876reviews
4.7★ rating
Category leader · Garland Animal Clinic
1,603reviews
727 ahead of you
You're past the Spokane median for Veterinary— real ground held. The gap that's left is to Garland Animal Clinic: 727 reviews. Closing it is what moves you from middle of the pack to the top of the local SERP.
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Live · against the real Spokane field

Drag your review count up. We re-rank you on reviews against the same Spokane field, live — every competitor stays fixed.

Your reviews
876
Review rank
#2of 6
876 nowleader Garland Animal Clinic · 1,603

You sit at #2 today. Drag the reviews up to see what the climb buys.

3Your Live Google Position

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The local pack · locked

You're not in Google's local 3-pack for Spokane Veterinary.

Organic #2, and invisible on the map where buyers look first. See who's holding the three spots — and how to take one.

#1hidden
#2hidden
#3hidden
#2Veterinarian in Spokane, WAnot in pack
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4What to Fix, in Order of What It Costs

0 costly · 2 material · 2 polish

Ranked by what each gap costs you, not by how a scanner flags it. The top of this list is where you're losing the call or the click today. Work down from there.

  1. Your page sends Google mixed signals about its topic.

    Several competing headings dilute the point. Google can't tell what the page is for, so it ranks you for less.

    Fix: Keep only one H1; convert the rest to H2/H3 as appropriate.

    Technical detail · for your developer

    Multiple H1 tags (2) — Multiple H1s dilute heading hierarchy and confuse crawlers. — Keep only one H1; convert the rest to H2/H3 as appropriate.

  2. Google's own checklist is flagging your pages.

    Google runs an automated scorecard on every page. Failing items are easy points you're handing to competitors who pass them.

    Fix: Review the PSI report for failing audits: title presence, meta
    Technical detail · for your developer

    Lighthouse SEO score below 90 — Lighthouse SEO checks failing — score is 77/100. — Review the PSI report for failing audits: title presence, meta description, crawlable links, valid hreflang.

  3. Some of your photos are invisible to Google.

    Image descriptions feed image search and help screen readers. Missing them leaves traffic and accessibility on the table.

    Fix: Add descriptive alt text to content images
    Technical detail · for your developer

    1 of 9 images missing alt text — Alt text helps both accessibility and image search ranking. — Add descriptive alt text to content images. Use empty alt='' only for decorative images.

  4. Your links show no preview on X.

    Shared without a card, your link is a naked URL. A preview with a headline and image earns the click; a bare link doesn't.

    Fix: Add twitter:card, twitter:title, twitter:description,
    Technical detail · for your developer

    No Twitter Card meta tags — Twitter Card tags control share previews on X/Twitter. — Add twitter:card, twitter:title, twitter:description, twitter:image meta tags.

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Full Technical Detail

Organic authority · searches you're not getting
Authority & organic traffic
The leader pulls 14,000 searches a month. You pull 2,000.
The Spokane leader14,000 /moDA 25
Veterinarian in Spokane, WA2,000 /moDA 17

At a typical 2% inquiry rate, that 12,000-search gap is about 230 inbound leads a month you're not getting. Same town, same searches — going to the site Google trusts more.

Mobile load · field metric
The Wait Before Anything Loads
On a phone, visitors wait 8.4 seconds for your page — slower than 1 Spokane competitor.

This is Largest Contentful Paint — the moment your main content actually appears on a phone. Google's bar for “good” is 2.5s. Past it, visitors leave before the page finishes, and Google ranks you lower for it.

Mobile load time across Spokane Veterinary
good 2.5s
median 8.6s
0s
Small Animal Internal Medicine
you 8.4s
You
8.4s
5.9s over the 2.5s bar
Fastest in Spokane · Small Animal Internal Medicine
1.0s
7.4s faster than you
1 of 5 Spokane Veterinary we measured load faster than you. On mobile, every second past the 2.5s bar costs visitors before they ever see your offer — and Google folds that wait straight into your ranking.
Layout shift (CLS)0.00
Spokane signal · local-anchor audit
Spokane localization signal
Strong local anchor
100/100

Strong Spokane signal — your title and meta both name the city to Google.

"Spokane" in page title
Title: "Home | Veterinarian in Spokane, WA | Union Animal Hospital"
"Spokane" in meta description
Meta: "Home in Spokane, WA. Union Animal Hospital is your local Veterinarian…"
Raw signals · supporting measurements
PageSpeed (mobile)
Performance63 /100
SEO77 /100
Accessibility76 /100
Best practices58 /100
Core Web Vitals (mobile)
LCP (load)8.4 s
CLS (shift)0.00
INP (response)
Google Business Profile
Profile existsyes
Rating4.7 / 5
Reviews876
Hours publishedyes
Structured data
JSON-LD presentyes
LocalBusiness schemayes
NAP complete in schemayes
On-page & discovery
Title tag58 chars
Meta description157 chars
H1 count2
Images / missing alt9 / 1
robots.txtyes
sitemap.xmlyes
Audit prepared by spokaneseo.app — a project of August SEO LLC, Spokane, WA
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