Carter Hughes Davies — Bath Architect Digital Visibility Score

Digital Visibility Score: 46 / 100 · Rank 54 of 80

Digital Visibility Score46/100Rank 54 of 80Problems found2No structured data on the homepageFurthest behind-13Technical: 75 against a sector median of 88

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	51	63	−12
Technical	75	88	−13
Local presence	78	78.5	−0.5
Visibility	13	0	+13
AI search presence	0	0	level
Content & trust	37	37	level

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

Speed & CWV		-12
Technical		-13
Local presence		-0.5
Visibility		+13
AI search presence		0
Content & trust		0

Problems found

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

• Worth fixingNo structured data on the homepageNothing tells a search engine or an assistant what this business is, where it is, or what it does — in machine-readable terms.
• Worth knowingThe site has not changed in a long timeThe homepage last reported a change 4.5 years ago.

Where this firm ranks

Ranks for 3 of 12 keywords, average position 26.3, in the local 3-pack for 0 keywords.

Keyword	Position
architects Bath	#46
architect Bath	not in top 100
architectural services Bath	#6
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	#27
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		51
Technical		75
Local presence		78
Visibility		13
AI search presence		0
Content & trust		37

this firm sector median leader

Carter Hughes Davies trails Designscape Architects by 201 points across 6 pillars, but 54% of that is AI search presence and Speed & CWV 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

Local presence

Google Business Profile.

Rating	5 / 5
Reviews	2
Locations	2
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
Content & trust	37	about page: yes · team page: no · credentials: no · blog or news: no · homepage: 829 words · last changed: 1652 days ago
Visibility	13	ranks for 3 of 12 keywords · average position 26.3 · local 3-pack: 0
Local presence	78	2 reviews · rated 5 · 0 new in 90 days
Technical	75	HTTPS: yes · page allows indexing: yes · robots.txt allows crawling: yes · sitemap: yes · structured data: no

Key findings

• Speed & CWV: 51/100, below the sector median of 63.
• Technical: 75/100, below the sector median of 88.

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 (51 vs 99); Visibility (13 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. Add about/team pages, and refresh stale content.

Firms ranked near this one

The firms nearest Carter Hughes Davies in this ranking, beyond the two either side.

Firm	Rank	Score	Why it is here
AHC Consultants	#52	46/100	2 places above you
Moon DESIGN	#56	46/100	2 places below you
LucyEdwards3D	#51	47/100	3 places above you
The Rez Group	#57	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 54 · accessibility 94 · best practices 96 · SEO 92 — biggest losses: Reduce unused JavaScript; Serves images with low resolution; Minimize main-thread work
Google profile detail	unclaimed · no description · no hours listed
Backlinks	35 referring domains · 44 links · rank 54
Site structure	1 pages crawled · 0 internal links per page
Sitemap	not declared in robots.txt · no lastmod dates

Where to get this fixed

Carter Hughes Davies’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.
• Visibility (13/100) — read topical authority on why ranking breadth across a sector beats chasing single terms. Background on analysing this pillar: visibility.

↑ Ranked aboveBurnford Architecture#53 · 46/100 Full indexAll 80 firms ↓ Ranked belowFairfield Banks#55 · 46/100

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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.