AHC Consultants — Bath Architect Digital Visibility Score

Digital Visibility Score: 46 / 100 · Rank 52 of 80

Digital Visibility Score46/100Rank 52 of 80 Critical problem1Search engines are being told not to index this site Furthest behind-19.5Local presence: 59 against a sector median of 78.5

Measured 31 August 2026 via the PYC Bath Architect Digital Visibility Index. Every figure is objective and reproducible from the methodology. Spotted an error? Request a correction.

Pillar breakdown vs sector median

Each pillar scored 0–100 against the sector median for this index. The final column is this firm's distance from that median.

Pillar	Score	Median	vs median
Speed & CWV	82	63	+19
Technical	75	88	−13
Local presence	59	78.5	−19.5
Visibility	0	0	level
AI search presence	0	0	level
Content & trust	25	37	−12

Pillar performance against the sector median. Bars right of centre are above the median, left are below.

Speed & CWV		+19
Technical		-13
Local presence		-19.5
Visibility		0
AI search presence		0
Content & trust		-12

Problems found

1 critical problem found. These are specific, checkable faults on the site — not opinions about it.

CriticalSearch engines are being told not to index this siteThe site’s own robots.txt disallows crawling. Until that changes, nothing else on this page can help — the pages cannot enter the index in the first place.
Worth fixingStructured data present, but no LocalBusiness markupThe page describes something to machines, but not that it is a local business with an address and opening hours.
Worth fixingVery little published contentThe homepage carries 182 words and the site links to no blog, news or insights section. There is little here for a search engine to match, or for an assistant to quote.

Where this firm ranks

Ranks for 0 of 12 keywords, in the local 3-pack for 0 keywords.

Keyword	Position
architects Bath	not in top 100
architect Bath	not in top 100
architectural services Bath	not in top 100
house extension architect Bath	not in top 100
planning application architect Bath	not in top 100
listed building architect Bath	not in top 100
residential architects Bath	not in top 100
commercial architects Bath	not in top 100
self build architect Bath	not in top 100
loft conversion architect Bath	not in top 100
barn conversion architect Bath	not in top 100
conservation architect Bath	not in top 100

The gap to the leader

This firm against the sector median and the index leader, Designscape Architects, on every pillar.

Speed & CWV		82
Technical		75
Local presence		59
Visibility		0
AI search presence		0
Content & trust		25

this firm sector median leader

AHC Consultants trails Designscape Architects by 214 points across 6 pillars, but 53% of that is AI search presence and Visibility alone.

AI search presence

Named in 0 of 5 AI answers. A domain citation is stronger evidence than a name mention.

✗	Who are the best architects in Bath?
✗	Which architect in Bath would you recommend for a house extension?
✗	Top rated architectural practices in Bath
✗	I need an architect in Bath - who should I contact?
✗	Conservation architects in Bath

Why this score

What each score is made of. Every input here is in the open dataset, so the arithmetic can be checked rather than taken on trust.

Pillar	Score	Made up of
Content & trust	25	about page: yes · team page: no · credentials: no · blog or news: no · homepage: 182 words
Visibility	0	ranks for 0 of 12 keywords · local 3-pack: 0
Local presence	59	0 reviews · 0 new in 90 days
Technical	75	HTTPS: yes · page allows indexing: yes · robots.txt allows crawling: no · sitemap: yes · structured data: yes

Key findings

Technical: 75/100, below the sector median of 88.
Local presence: 59/100, below the sector median of 78.5.
Content & trust: 25/100, below the sector median of 37.

How this compares to the leader

Designscape Architects leads the index with 80/100. The largest gaps are: AI search presence (0 vs 60); Visibility (0 vs 53); Local presence (59 vs 90).

Top fixes (ranked by impact)

Build local landing pages for the core keyword basket to lift organic and local-pack appearance.
Publish structured, citable content and entity schema so AI engines surface the business for core local queries.
Add about/team pages, and refresh stale content.

Firms ranked near this one

The firms nearest AHC Consultants in this ranking, beyond the two either side.

Firm	Rank	Score	Why it is here
Curtis Cryer Architects	#50	47/100	2 places above you
Carter Hughes Davies	#54	46/100	2 places below you
John Mullen Building Surveying	#49	48/100	3 places above you
Fairfield Banks	#55	46/100	3 places below you

Context (not scored)

Recorded alongside the measurement to make it easier to judge, but carrying no weight in the Digital Visibility Score. See the methodology.

Companies House	No confident match on the registered name
Real-user speed (CrUX)	Too little traffic to appear in Chrome’s public dataset
Lighthouse (lab, mobile)	Performance 82 · accessibility 94 · best practices 81 · SEO 100 — biggest losses: Network dependency tree; Document request latency; Buttons do not have an accessible name
Google profile detail	1 photo · unclaimed · no description · no hours listed
Backlinks	32 referring domains · 36 links · rank 0 · 5 broken
Site structure	1 pages crawled · 14 internal links per page · 0% of links use a generic anchor · 13 sitemap pages not reachable by following links
Sitemap	14 URLs listed · declared in robots.txt · newest entry 633 days old · 0 of 5 sampled URLs resolve

Where to get this fixed

AHC Consultants’s lowest-scoring pillars among those we publish remediation guidance for:

Visibility (0/100) — read topical authority on why ranking breadth across a sector beats chasing single terms. Background on analysing this pillar: visibility.
AI search presence (0/100) — read generative engine optimisation on getting named by the answer engines this pillar measures. Background on analysing this pillar: ai search presence.

How this is measured: see the index methodology, and the statistical methods behind each pillar. This index is published by PYC; if you want this score moved, start here.