Collaborative Design and Build Ltd. — Bath Architect Digital Visibility Score

Digital Visibility Score: 52 / 100 · Rank 30 of 80

Digital Visibility Score52/100Rank 30 of 80 · top 37%Critical problem1Search engines are being told not to index this site Furthest behind-4Speed & CWV: 59 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	59	63	−4
Technical	88	88	level
Local presence	76	78.5	−2.5
Visibility	0	0	level
AI search presence	0	0	level
Content & trust	75	37	+38

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

Speed & CWV		-4
Technical		0
Local presence		-2.5
Visibility		0
AI search presence		0
Content & trust		+38

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.

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		59
Technical		88
Local presence		76
Visibility		0
AI search presence		0
Content & trust		75

this firm sector median leader

Collaborative Design and Build Ltd. trails Designscape Architects by 179 points across 5 pillars, but 63% of that is AI search presence and Visibility alone. It already matches or beats the leader on Content & trust.

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	1
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
Content & trust	75	about page: yes · team page: yes · credentials: no · blog or news: yes · homepage: 470 words
Visibility	0	ranks for 0 of 12 keywords · local 3-pack: 0
Local presence	76	1 reviews · rated 5 · 0 new in 90 days
Technical	88	HTTPS: yes · page allows indexing: yes · robots.txt allows crawling: no · 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: AI search presence (0 vs 60); Visibility (0 vs 53); Speed & CWV (59 vs 99).

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.
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 Collaborative Design and Build Ltd. in this ranking, beyond the two either side.

Firm	Rank	Score	Why it is here
Lynea Architects Ltd	#28	54/100	2 places above you
Flawless	#32	52/100	2 places below you
Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios	#27	54/100	3 places above you
Woolf Interior Architecture & Design	#33	52/100	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 52 · accessibility 96 · best practices 41 · SEO 85 — biggest losses: Issues were logged in the `Issues` panel in Chrome Devtools; Minimize main-thread work; Document request latency
Google profile detail	1 photo · claimed · has a description · no hours listed
Backlinks	91 referring domains · 167 links · rank 141 · 8 broken
Site structure	1 pages crawled · 50 internal links per page · reachable in: contact 1 click, about 1 click · 22% of links use a generic anchor · 6 sitemap pages not reachable by following links
Sitemap	6 URLs listed · declared in robots.txt · newest entry 1411 days old · 5 of 5 sampled URLs resolve

Where to get this fixed

Collaborative Design and Build Ltd.’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.