Free tool
Review Velocity Checker
Is your customer feedback a steady stream or a total standstill? Review velocity is the speed and consistency with which your business receives new reviews. It’s one of the most important freshness signals search engines use to judge your local ranking and reliability.
A high star rating is great, but a consistent flow of recent reviews proves to Google and potential customers that you’re active, relevant and delivering quality service today. Enter your business name and postcode to check your velocity score.
Your velocity score
How long it has taken you to earn your last five reviews.
Freshness check
See whether you’re building momentum or falling behind.
Know where you stand
Understand the signal Google sees when it ranks local businesses.
Frequently asked questions
What is review velocity?
Review velocity is the rate at which a business earns new reviews over time. It shows Google and customers how active and trusted your business is right now, not just how many reviews you’ve collected in total.
Does review velocity affect Google rankings?
Yes. Recency and frequency of reviews are part of the prominence signals Google uses for local search and the map pack. Businesses with a steady flow of fresh reviews tend to outrank those whose reviews have dried up.
What is a good review velocity?
It depends on your industry and competitors. A good benchmark is matching or beating the fastest competitor in your local map pack. Our free report compares you with them.
Free review report
How fast are you getting reviews compared with your competitors?
Get your score out of 100, your local ranking against the top 3 near you, and exactly how many 5★ reviews you need to overtake them. Free, in about 15 seconds.
No card. No sign-up.
What does Review Velocity give my business?
Online Dashboard
All of our features are located in one easy to use dashboard. You can manage and respond to reviews, update your Google Business page, post to your page, share reviews straight to your social channels and show all your latest reviews on your website. It’s a way to manage your local reputation quickly and easily.
Ranking, Performance and Strategy Insights
Our dashboard gives you your review stats and breakdowns across review platforms. It also lets you check your rankings and competitors and your Google performance, and gives you strategy insights: what’s working, what you can improve based on customer feedback, and an action plan.
Gather Reviews
The core of our software is making it easy to get your customers to leave you the glowing reviews your business deserves: Tap to Review (the same tech as tap to pay), QR codes, email requests, SMS requests and WhatsApp requests. Each type of business needs a different strategy for success.
Respond to your Reviews
Respond to every review across all your platforms in one place, or let Velocity AI auto-respond for you, or use it as a template and add your own customisation. For customers leaving reviews, AI suggestions guide them on what to write so you get better, more detailed reviews automatically.
Social Review Sharing
Finding it difficult to know what to post on your socials every week? Review Velocity lets you share the best of your reviews across multiple social platforms automatically. What better way to get potential clients interested in your business?
Google Business Profile Management
We help busy business owners manage their Google Business Profile from the dashboard, including updating opening hours, uploading photos, updating descriptions and posting to your page. Velocity AI posts to your GBP profile.
Website Widget
Display your best reviews from your chosen review platforms on your website. It updates automatically, so your site always shows the latest social proof of just how great your business is. If you don’t have a website yet, Review Velocity will give you a free starter website.
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