Snapshots · Vet practices · Norfolk and north Suffolk, UK

Norfolk vet websites: the November 2026 snapshot

We went looking at the websites of independent vet practices across Norfolk and north Suffolk. Not the big chains, just the local practices where the website is often a job someone does on a Friday afternoon. Here's how they're doing, with no names attached.

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01What we checked
02The numbers
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What we checked, and how

On 3 November 2026 we searched Google's business listings for vets in Norwich and across Norfolk. That gave 66 listings with a website. We dropped the chains (Medivet, CVS, IVC, Linnaeus, Vets4Pets), which left 32 independent sites. Then we loaded each one the way a visitor would. Public pages only. We didn't log in anywhere or try anything clever.

Checked · public pages only · no names published

02

The numbers

32

Independent practice sites checked

17

Run on WordPress

10/32

Took over 2.5 s to start sending the homepage

7.8s

Slowest wait before the first byte arrived

03

What keeps going wrong

  • Slow servers

    On 10 of the 32 sites, the server took longer than 2.5 seconds just to start sending the homepage. One took 7.8 seconds. That's before a single image loads. A pet owner on a phone in the car park won't wait that long.

  • Old WordPress and old PHP

    One site still runs WordPress 6.0, from 2022. Another reports PHP 7.4, which stopped getting security fixes at the end of 2022. Old versions don't break the site, so nobody notices. They just keep missing every fix since.

  • A cache plugin behind on its security fixes

    One practice runs a cache plugin with three security bugs that were fixed the week before we looked. The fix was one click away. It hadn't been clicked.

  • Analytics that stopped counting

    One site still uses only Universal Analytics. Google stopped that recording data on 1 July 2023, so the site hasn't logged a visitor since. The reports look quiet because nothing is being counted.

04

Check yours in 2 minutes

Wondering if your own site is in these numbers? You don't need us for a first look.

  1. Open your homepage, right-click, choose View Page Source and search for UA- and G-. Only UA-? Your analytics stopped counting in 2023.

  2. In wp-admin, open Dashboard > Updates, then Plugins. Anything waiting there is a fix you haven't got yet.

  3. Run your homepage through PageSpeed Insights on mobile and read the real-user section at the top.

  4. Search Google for your practice name, tap "Website" on your listing and check it lands on the right page, over https, with no warning.

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05

Quick answers

How many Norfolk vet websites did CrawlCare check?
32 independent vet practice websites in Norfolk and north Suffolk, checked on 3 November 2026. Chains such as Medivet, CVS, IVC, Linnaeus and Vets4Pets were left out.
How many of them run on WordPress?
17 of the 32 run on WordPress.
How fast were the Norfolk vet websites?
On 10 of the 32 sites, the server took longer than 2.5 seconds to start sending the homepage. The slowest took 7.8 seconds.
Did CrawlCare log in or test anything private?
No. We only loaded public pages, the same way any visitor's browser does.

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