We search Google Maps from dozens of real points across a business's
service area, and draw where they actually come up.
Green means they are in the top three from that spot. Red means a person
standing there does not see them at all. Click any business below to open the real
heat map — it is live, not a picture. Press Space on it and the map
switches to whoever is beating them, on the same points, from the same day.
Paste their Google listing link. It reads the business, checks the
pin is somewhere a customer could stand, and locks on to their exact Google
listing so it cannot pick up a business with a similar name.
It measures the area first. How far can a searcher standing there
actually see? In a city that is a few kilometres; in the country it is much
further. Getting this wrong invents empty space, so it is measured, not assumed.
It runs the real search from every point. 81 to 225 separate
Google Maps searches, each one from that exact coordinate.
Every point must answer. A grid with a gap in it is never shown.
The table underneath is every business found anywhere on the grid —
average rank, top-3 coverage, category, star rating, review count, and a link
to their real Google listing so nothing on screen has to be taken on trust.
Every number here is measured, not modelled.
Open any heat map and press D for the raw data: every coordinate, every
rank, the source named, and the exact time the searches ran. Nobody makes up
169 rows of latitude.