Best review sites for vets and pet businesses in 2026
194 AI answers about vets and pet businesses cited 20 review sites. Grades.com collects reviews from 9 of them. Answers from the last 90 days (Aug 1 to Oct 30, 2026).
Which review sites matter most for vets and pet businesses?
By AI citation share, the top review sites for vets and pet businesses are Yelp (51.5%), Nextdoor (17.0%) and Google Business Profile (16.0%), out of 194 AI answers about vets and pet businesses. 5 sites are cited in at least 20 of those answers.
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Share of 194 AI answers about vets and pet businesses (the last 90 days) that cite each site, ranked. Sites cited in 20 or more answers.
Which review sites does each AI assistant cite for vets and pet businesses?
ChatGPT cites Google Business Profile most (62% of its answers), Claude cites Yelp most (96% of its answers), Gemini cites BBB most (6% of its answers) and Perplexity cites Yelp most (90% of its answers). Each chart: the share of that assistant's answers about vets and pet businesses that cite the site.
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Yelp is the review site AI assistants cite most for vets and pet businesses: 51.5% of 194 answers, ahead of Nextdoor (17.0%).
Google Business Profile is where most vets and pet businesses already are: 100% of the 50 we checked have a profile there, and AI cites it in 16.0% of answers.
Yelp is cited in 51.5% of answers, yet only 18% of the vets and pet businesses we checked have a profile there.
Yelp is cited in 51.5% of answers, but its rules do not allow asking customers for reviews: claim the profile and reply instead.
Google Business Profile has the biggest audience of these sites: about 1.7B monthly visits (an estimate).
Where do vets and pet businesses get reviews?
Of the vets and pet businesses we checked, 100% have a Google Business Profile, 80% have a Facebook profile and 18% have a Yelp profile (n = 50 businesses).
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Share of the vets and pet businesses we checked with a profile on each site, 0 to 100%. n = businesses checked.
The full ranking
See all 5 sites cited in 20 or more answers, in a table
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AI citation share: the share of the 194 AI answers about vets and pet businesses that cite the site. Sites cited in fewer than 20 of these answers are left out.Has a profile: vets and pet businesses we checked with a profile on the site. Collected = Grades.com pulls reviews from this site. Site reach: estimated monthly organic search visits to the site's domain (DataForSEO Labs, Ahrefs Domain Rating, October 2026).
Frequently asked questions
Which review site do AI assistants cite most for vets and pet businesses?
Yelp is cited in 51.5% of 194 AI answers about vets and pet businesses, ahead of Nextdoor (17.0%) and Google Business Profile (16.0%).
Do vets and pet businesses need Yelp?
Yelp ranks #1 of 5 for vets and pet businesses: AI assistants cite it in 51.5% of 194 answers about vets and pet businesses, against 43.4% of all answers. 18% of the vets and pet businesses we checked have a profile there (n = 50). Grades.com collects Yelp reviews.
Which review sites does Grades.com collect for vets and pet businesses?
Of the 20 review sites cited in AI answers about vets and pet businesses, Grades.com collects reviews from 9, among them Yelp, Google Business Profile and BBB.
Which review site is easiest for vets and pet businesses to get reviews on?
Of the review sites cited for vets and pet businesses, Google Business Profile is the one cited most (16.0% of AI answers) whose own rules let anyone leave a review, let the business send a direct review link, and allow asking customers for reviews. Yelp does not allow asking.
What is AI citation share?
The share of AI answers that cite a review site. Here it is counted over 194 answers about vets and pet businesses from ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Perplexity in the last 90 days: Yelp is cited in 100 of them, a 51.5% share.
The three words this page uses: collected = Grades.com pulls reviews from the site (54 review sites in all); measured = every review site the AI answers cited, across all industries (109 sites); cited for vets and pet businesses = the measured sites that appeared in at least one of the 194 answers about vets and pet businesses (20 sites).
Data window: Aug 1 to Oct 30, 2026 (90 days), October 2026 edition, data as of October 30, 2026.
AI citation share: answers citing the site divided by the 194 AI answers about vets and pet businesses (businesses in the "Pets & Vets" category of the Grades.com directory), from ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Perplexity. The chart and the table rank the sites cited in 20 or more of these answers. Search-result and help pages on a review site are not counted.
Has a profile: the share of the vets and pet businesses we checked with a profile on the site (n = businesses checked).
Picks: most cited by AI = highest citation share; easiest to get reviews = the site cited most whose own rules let anyone review, let the business send a direct review link and allow asking (from its guide; never Yelp, which does not allow asking); most replies from businesses = highest share of reviews with a business reply, across all industries, shown with at least 100 reviews checked. A pick the data cannot support is left out.
Start with these three: the sites cited most for vets and pet businesses that Grades.com collects, one per site Grades.com connects. A site that shows another site's reviews is covered by connecting that site.
Site reach: estimated monthly organic search visits to the site's domain (DataForSEO Labs, Ahrefs Domain Rating, October 2026); an estimate for the whole domain, not a figure published by the site, and the same in every industry.
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