BBA Architects Ltd — Bath Architect Digital Visibility Score

Digital Visibility Score: 63 / 100 · Rank 5 of 80

Digital Visibility Score63/100Rank 5 of 80 · top 5%One page from the first2Closest: commercial architects Bath at #12Furthest behind-7Speed & CWV: 56 against a sector median of 63

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	56	63	−7
Technical	100	88	+12
Local presence	86	78.5	+7.5
Visibility	38	0	+38
AI search presence	20	0	+20
Content & trust	—	37	not measured

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

Speed & CWV		-7
Technical		+12
Local presence		+7.5
Visibility		+38
AI search presence		+20
Content & trust		not measured

Where this firm ranks

Ranks for 9 of 12 keywords, average position 17.2, in the local 3-pack for 0 keywords.

Keyword	Position
architects Bath	#8
architect Bath	#20
architectural services Bath	#9
house extension architect Bath	not in top 100
planning application architect Bath	#44
listed building architect Bath	#4
residential architects Bath	#21
commercial architects Bath	#12
self build architect Bath	not in top 100
loft conversion architect Bath	not in top 100
barn conversion architect Bath	#32
conservation architect Bath	#5

The gap to the leader

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

Speed & CWV		56
Technical		100
Local presence		86
Visibility		38
AI search presence		20

this firm sector median leader

BBA Architects Ltd trails Designscape Architects by 102 points across 4 pillars, but 81% of that is Speed & CWV and AI search presence alone. It already matches or beats the leader on Technical.

Closest to the first page

Ranked between #11 and #20 — one page from the first, ordered by how close.

commercial architects Bath		#12
architect Bath		#20

2 positions sit between #11 and #20 — one page away, and the cheapest ranking work available to this firm.

AI search presence

Named in 1 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	cited by domain

Local presence

Google Business Profile.

Rating	5 / 5
Reviews	7
Locations	1
Reviews in last 90 days	0
Address matches website	yes

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
Visibility	38	ranks for 9 of 12 keywords · average position 17.2 · local 3-pack: 0
Local presence	86	7 reviews · rated 5 · 0 new in 90 days
Technical	100	HTTPS: yes · page allows indexing: yes · robots.txt allows crawling: yes · sitemap: yes · structured data: yes

Key findings

• No pillar falls materially below the sector median this quarter.

How this compares to the leader

Designscape Architects leads the index with 80/100. The largest gaps are: Speed & CWV (56 vs 99); AI search presence (20 vs 60); Visibility (38 vs 53).

Top fixes (ranked by impact)

1. Publish structured, citable content and entity schema so AI engines surface the business for core local queries.
2. Build local landing pages for the core keyword basket to lift organic and local-pack appearance.
3. Cut mobile LCP below 2.5s (optimise images and remove render-blocking resources) — the biggest score and ranking lever.

Firms ranked near this one

The firms nearest BBA Architects Ltd in this ranking, beyond the two either side.

Firm	Rank	Score	Why it is here
Aaron Evans Architects Ltd	#3	68/100	2 places above you
Mark Wray Architects	#7	62/100	2 places below you
WBC Group (Western Building Consultants)	#2	79/100	3 places above you
Mitchell Eley Gould Architects	#8	61/100	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	Company 02679820 · 34.6 years old · active · SIC 71111
Real-user speed (CrUX)	Too little traffic to appear in Chrome’s public dataset
Lighthouse (lab, mobile)	Performance 53 · accessibility 73 · best practices 74 · SEO 100 — biggest losses: Font display; Browser errors were logged to the console; Avoid multiple page redirects
Google profile detail	11 photos · claimed · has a description · hours listed · 0 of 7 reviews are one star
Backlinks	115 referring domains · 161 links · rank 154 · 1 broken
Site structure	1 pages crawled · 18 internal links per page · reachable in: contact 1 click · 0% of links use a generic anchor · 60 sitemap pages not reachable by following links
Sitemap	60 URLs listed · declared in robots.txt · newest entry 111 days old · 5 of 5 sampled URLs resolve

Where to get this fixed

BBA Architects Ltd’s lowest-scoring pillars among those we publish remediation guidance for:

• AI search presence (20/100) — read generative engine optimisation on getting named by the answer engines this pillar measures. Background on analysing this pillar: ai search presence.
• Visibility (38/100) — read topical authority on why ranking breadth across a sector beats chasing single terms. Background on analysing this pillar: visibility.

↑ Ranked aboveLacey Architecture Ltd#4 · 65/100 Full indexAll 80 firms ↓ Ranked belowDKA#6 · 63/100

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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.