Designscape Architects — Bath Architect Digital Visibility Score

Digital Visibility Score: 80 / 100 · Rank 1 of 80

Digital Visibility Score80/100Rank 1 of 80 · top 1%Problems found1The site has not changed in a long timeOne page from the first2Closest: architects Bath at #15

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	99	63	+36
Technical	100	88	+12
Local presence	90	78.5	+11.5
Visibility	53	0	+53
AI search presence	60	0	+60
Content & trust	53	37	+16

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

Speed & CWV		+36
Technical		+12
Local presence		+11.5
Visibility		+53
AI search presence		+60
Content & trust		+16

Problems found

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

• Worth knowingThe site has not changed in a long timeThe homepage last reported a change 6.8 years ago.

Where this firm ranks

Ranks for 10 of 12 keywords, average position 22.4, in the local 3-pack for 7 keywords.

Keyword	Position
architects Bath	#15
architect Bath	#35
architectural services Bath	#35
house extension architect Bath	#17
planning application architect Bath	#34
listed building architect Bath	#5
residential architects Bath	#8
commercial architects Bath	#2
self build architect Bath	#23
loft conversion architect Bath	not in top 100
barn conversion architect Bath	#50
conservation architect Bath	not in top 100

Closest to the first page

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

architects Bath		#15
house extension architect Bath		#17

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

AI search presence

Named in 3 of 5 AI answers. A domain citation is stronger evidence than a name mention.

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

Local presence

Google Business Profile.

Rating	4.9 / 5
Reviews	15
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 specialist2
• communication2
• creativity2
• building2

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	53	about page: yes · team page: no · credentials: yes · blog or news: no · homepage: 1,553 words · last changed: 2490 days ago
Visibility	53	ranks for 10 of 12 keywords · average position 22.4 · local 3-pack: 7
Local presence	90	15 reviews · rated 4.9 · 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.

Top fixes (ranked by impact)

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

Firms ranked near this one

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

Firm	Rank	Score	Why it is here
Aaron Evans Architects Ltd	#3	68/100	2 places below you
Lacey Architecture Ltd	#4	65/100	3 places below you
BBA Architects Ltd	#5	63/100	4 places below you
DKA	#6	63/100	5 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 05532507 · 21.1 years old · active · SIC 71111
Real-user speed (CrUX)	Too little traffic to appear in Chrome’s public dataset
Lighthouse (lab, mobile)	Performance 100 · accessibility 94 · best practices 78 · SEO 100 — biggest losses: Does not use HTTPS; Browser errors were logged to the console; Network dependency tree
Google profile detail	25 photos · claimed · has a description · hours listed · 0 of 15 reviews are one star
Backlinks	188 referring domains · 310 links · rank 142
Site structure	1 pages crawled · 169 internal links per page · reachable in: contact 1 click, about 1 click · 0% of links use a generic anchor · 174 sitemap pages not reachable by following links
Sitemap	174 URLs listed · declared in robots.txt · newest entry 33 days old · 5 of 5 sampled URLs resolve

Where to get this fixed

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

• Visibility (53/100) and Content & trust (53/100) — read topical authority on why ranking breadth across a sector beats chasing single terms. Background on analysing these pillars: visibility, content & trust.

Top of the index Full indexAll 80 firms ↓ Ranked belowWBC Group (Western Building Consultants)#2 · 79/100

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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.