Burnford Architecture — Bath Architect Digital Visibility Score

Digital Visibility Score: 46 / 100 · Rank 53 of 80

Digital Visibility Score46/100Rank 53 of 80 Problems found1Very little published content Furthest behind-37Content & trust: 0 against a sector median of 37

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	46	63	−17
Technical	100	88	+12
Local presence	80	78.5	+1.5
Visibility	4	0	+4
AI search presence	0	0	level
Content & trust	0	37	−37

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

Speed & CWV		-17
Technical		+12
Local presence		+1.5
Visibility		+4
AI search presence		0
Content & trust		-37

Problems found

These are specific, checkable faults on the site — not opinions about it.

Worth fixingVery little published contentThe homepage carries 6 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 1 of 12 keywords, average position 62, 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	#62
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		46
Technical		100
Local presence		80
Visibility		4
AI search presence		0
Content & trust		0

this firm sector median leader

Burnford Architecture trails Designscape Architects by 225 points across 5 pillars, but 50% of that is AI search presence and Speed & CWV alone. It already matches or beats the leader on Technical.

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

Local presence

Google Business Profile.

Rating	5 / 5
Reviews	3
Locations	1
Reviews in last 90 days	0
Address matches website	yes

What customers talk about

Themes Google extracted from this business’s reviews, by how often customers raise them. Not scored — this is what people say, not how findable the business is.

planning permission2
team2
kitchen2

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	0	about page: no · team page: no · credentials: no · blog or news: no · homepage: 6 words
Visibility	4	ranks for 1 of 12 keywords · average position 62 · local 3-pack: 0
Local presence	80	3 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

Speed & CWV: 46/100, below the sector median of 63.
Content & trust: 0/100, 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); Speed & CWV (46 vs 99); Content & trust (0 vs 53).

Top fixes (ranked by impact)

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.
Build local landing pages for the core keyword basket to lift organic and local-pack appearance.

Firms ranked near this one

The firms nearest Burnford Architecture in this ranking, beyond the two either side.

Firm	Rank	Score	Why it is here
LucyEdwards3D	#51	47/100	2 places above you
Fairfield Banks	#55	46/100	2 places below you
Curtis Cryer Architects	#50	47/100	3 places above you
Moon DESIGN	#56	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 35 · accessibility 100 · best practices 78 · SEO 92 — biggest losses: LCP breakdown; First Contentful Paint; Legacy JavaScript
Google profile detail	27 photos · claimed · has a description · hours listed
Backlinks	48 referring domains · 52 links · rank 35
Site structure	1 pages crawled · 3 internal links per page · reachable in: contact 1 click · 0% of links use a generic anchor · 39 sitemap pages not reachable by following links
Sitemap	39 URLs listed · not declared in robots.txt · newest entry 539 days old · 5 of 5 sampled URLs resolve

Where to get this fixed

Burnford Architecture’s lowest-scoring pillars among those we publish remediation guidance for:

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.
Content & trust (0/100) — read topical authority on how depth and coverage compound into citation-worthiness. Background on analysing this pillar: content & trust.

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.