Lord Architecture Ltd — Bath Architect Digital Visibility Score

Digital Visibility Score: 51 / 100 · Rank 35 of 80

Digital Visibility Score51/100Rank 35 of 80 · top 43%Problems found3No XML sitemap foundFurthest behind-25Technical: 63 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	63	63	level
Technical	63	88	−25
Local presence	79	78.5	+0.5
Visibility	21	0	+21
AI search presence	20	0	+20
Content & trust	37	37	level

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

Speed & CWV		0
Technical		-25
Local presence		+0.5
Visibility		+21
AI search presence		+20
Content & trust		0

Problems found

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

• Worth fixingNo XML sitemap foundSearch engines have to discover every page by following links. On a small site that is survivable; on a large one it is not.
• 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 3.2 years ago.

Where this firm ranks

Ranks for 5 of 12 keywords, average position 46.6, in the local 3-pack for 0 keywords.

Keyword	Position
architects Bath	#35
architect Bath	#25
architectural services Bath	#51
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	#61
commercial architects Bath	#61
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		63
Technical		63
Local presence		79
Visibility		21
AI search presence		20
Content & trust		37

this firm sector median leader

Lord Architecture Ltd trails Designscape Architects by 172 points across 6 pillars, but 45% of that is AI search presence and Technical alone.

AI search presence

Named in 1 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	named
✗	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	37	about page: yes · team page: no · credentials: no · blog or news: yes · homepage: 17 words · last changed: 1159 days ago
Visibility	21	ranks for 5 of 12 keywords · average position 46.6 · local 3-pack: 0
Local presence	79	1 reviews · rated 5 · 0 new in 90 days
Technical	63	HTTPS: yes · page allows indexing: yes · robots.txt allows crawling: yes · sitemap: no · structured data: no

Key findings

• Technical: 63/100, 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 (20 vs 60); Technical (63 vs 100); Speed & CWV (63 vs 99).

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 Lord Architecture Ltd in this ranking, beyond the two either side.

Firm	Rank	Score	Why it is here
Woolf Interior Architecture & Design	#33	52/100	2 places above you
Sims Hilditch	#37	51/100	2 places below you
Flawless	#32	52/100	3 places above you
Smartarch Ltd	#38	51/100	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	Company 10655010 · 9.5 years old · active · SIC 71111
Real-user speed (CrUX)	Too little traffic to appear in Chrome’s public dataset
Lighthouse (lab, mobile)	Performance 62 · accessibility 85 · best practices 81 · SEO 92 — biggest losses: Document does not have a meta description; Largest Contentful Paint; Reduce unused CSS
Google profile detail	11 photos · claimed · has a description · hours listed
Backlinks	57 referring domains · 87 links · rank 53
Site structure	1 pages crawled · 7 internal links per page · reachable in: contact 1 click, about 1 click · 0% of links use a generic anchor
Sitemap	declared in robots.txt

Where to get this fixed

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

• AI search presence (20/100) — read generative engine optimisation on getting named by the answer engines this pillar measures. Background on analysing this pillar: ai search presence.
• Visibility (21/100) — read topical authority on why ranking breadth across a sector beats chasing single terms. Background on analysing this pillar: visibility.

↑ Ranked aboveAlex Tart Architects, Bath#34 · 51/100 Full indexAll 80 firms ↓ Ranked belowParagon Structures#36 · 51/100

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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.