Maack Architects — Bath Architect Digital Visibility Score

Digital Visibility Score: 60 / 100 · Rank 11 of 80

Digital Visibility Score60/100Rank 11 of 80 · top 13%One page from the first2Closest: architects Bath at #12 Furthest behind-17Speed & CWV: 46 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	46	63	−17
Technical	100	88	+12
Local presence	83	78.5	+4.5
Visibility	38	0	+38
AI search presence	20	0	+20
Content & trust	55	37	+18

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

Speed & CWV		-17
Technical		+12
Local presence		+4.5
Visibility		+38
AI search presence		+20
Content & trust		+18

Where this firm ranks

Ranks for 9 of 12 keywords, average position 16.9, in the local 3-pack for 0 keywords.

Keyword	Position
architects Bath	#12
architect Bath	not in top 100
architectural services Bath	#26
house extension architect Bath	#20
planning application architect Bath	#7
listed building architect Bath	not in top 100
residential architects Bath	#9
commercial architects Bath	#1
self build architect Bath	#9
loft conversion architect Bath	#37
barn conversion architect Bath	#31
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		46
Technical		100
Local presence		83
Visibility		38
AI search presence		20
Content & trust		55

this firm sector median leader

Maack Architects trails Designscape Architects by 115 points across 4 pillars, but 81% of that is Speed & CWV and AI search presence alone. It already matches or beats the leader on Technical, Content & trust.

Closest to the first page

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

architects Bath		#12
house extension architect Bath		#20

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

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
✓	I need an architect in Bath - who should I contact?	cited by domain
✗	Conservation architects in Bath

Local presence

Google Business Profile.

Rating	5 / 5
Reviews	3
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	55	about page: yes · team page: no · credentials: no · blog or news: yes · homepage: 632 words
Visibility	38	ranks for 9 of 12 keywords · average position 16.9 · local 3-pack: 0
Local presence	83	3 reviews · rated 5 · 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

Speed & CWV: 46/100, below the sector median of 63.

How this compares to the leader

Designscape Architects leads the index with 80/100. The largest gaps are: Speed & CWV (46 vs 99); AI search presence (20 vs 60); Visibility (38 vs 53).

Top fixes (ranked by impact)

Publish structured, citable content and entity schema so AI engines surface the business for core local queries.
Build local landing pages for the core keyword basket to lift organic and local-pack appearance.
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 Maack Architects in this ranking, beyond the two either side.

Firm	Rank	Score	Why it is here
TEA Architects	#9	61/100	2 places above you
KANN ARCHITECTURE	#13	59/100	2 places below you
Mitchell Eley Gould Architects	#8	61/100	3 places above you
Nash Partnership	#14	59/100	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 100 · best practices 81 · SEO 100 — biggest losses: Legacy JavaScript; Does not use HTTPS; Document request latency
Google profile detail	11 photos · claimed · has a description · hours listed
Backlinks	56 referring domains · 66 links · rank 119 · 4 broken
Site structure	1 pages crawled · 26 internal links per page · reachable in: about 1 click · 0% of links use a generic anchor · 37 sitemap pages not reachable by following links
Sitemap	37 URLs listed · not declared in robots.txt · newest entry 2163 days old · 5 of 5 sampled URLs resolve

Where to get this fixed

Maack Architects’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 (38/100) — read topical authority on why ranking breadth across a sector beats chasing single terms. Background on analysing this pillar: visibility.

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.