Lacey Architecture Ltd — Bath Architect Digital Visibility Score

Digital Visibility Score: 65 / 100 · Rank 4 of 80

Digital Visibility Score65/100Rank 4 of 80 · top 4%Problems found1The site has not changed in a long time 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	100	88	+12
Local presence	92	78.5	+13.5
Visibility	33	0	+33
AI search presence	40	0	+40
Content & trust	37	37	level

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

Speed & CWV		-4
Technical		+12
Local presence		+13.5
Visibility		+33
AI search presence		+40
Content & trust		0

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 6.1 years ago.

Where this firm ranks

Ranks for 8 of 12 keywords, average position 31.8, in the local 3-pack for 0 keywords.

Keyword	Position
architects Bath	#26
architect Bath	not in top 100
architectural services Bath	not in top 100
house extension architect Bath	#4
planning application architect Bath	#21
listed building architect Bath	not in top 100
residential architects Bath	#4
commercial architects Bath	#34
self build architect Bath	#32
loft conversion architect Bath	#63
barn conversion architect Bath	#70
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		100
Local presence		92
Visibility		33
AI search presence		40
Content & trust		37

this firm sector median leader

Lacey Architecture Ltd trails Designscape Architects by 96 points across 4 pillars, but 63% of that is Speed & CWV and Visibility alone. It already matches or beats the leader on Technical, Local presence.

AI search presence

Named in 2 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?	cited by domain
✓	Top rated architectural practices in Bath	named
✗	I need an architect in Bath - who should I contact?
✗	Conservation architects in Bath

Local presence

Google Business Profile.

Rating	5 / 5
Reviews	21
Locations	1
Reviews in last 90 days	1
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.

budget4
innovative designs3
attention to detail3
responsiveness3
useful advice3
single storey extension2
attentive listener2
design process2
space2
views2

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: 2,543 words · last changed: 2242 days ago
Visibility	33	ranks for 8 of 12 keywords · average position 31.8 · local 3-pack: 0
Local presence	92	21 reviews · rated 5 · 1 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 (59 vs 99); Visibility (33 vs 53); AI search presence (40 vs 60).

Top fixes (ranked by impact)

Build local landing pages for the core keyword basket to lift organic and local-pack appearance.
Add about/team pages, and refresh stale content.
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 Lacey Architecture Ltd in this ranking, beyond the two either side.

Firm	Rank	Score	Why it is here
WBC Group (Western Building Consultants)	#2	79/100	2 places above you
DKA	#6	63/100	2 places below you
Designscape Architects	#1	80/100	3 places above you
Mark Wray Architects	#7	62/100	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 62 · accessibility 92 · best practices 81 · SEO 85 — biggest losses: Forced reflow; Largest Contentful Paint; Improve image delivery
Google profile detail	60 photos · claimed · has a description · hours listed · 0 of 21 reviews are one star
Backlinks	79 referring domains · 236 links · rank 78
Site structure	1 pages crawled · 18 internal links per page · reachable in: services 1 click · 0% of links use a generic anchor · 21 sitemap pages not reachable by following links
Sitemap	22 URLs listed · declared in robots.txt · newest entry 55 days old · 1 of 2 sampled URLs resolve

Where to get this fixed

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

Visibility (33/100) and Content & trust (37/100) — read topical authority on why ranking breadth across a sector beats chasing single terms. Background on analysing these pillars: visibility, 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.