Marptree Design & Build limited — Bath Architect Digital Visibility Score

Digital Visibility Score: 55 / 100 · Rank 24 of 80

Digital Visibility Score55/100Rank 24 of 80 · top 29%Problems found1The site has not changed in a long timeFurthest behind-5Speed & CWV: 58 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	58	63	−5
Technical	100	88	+12
Local presence	90	78.5	+11.5
Visibility	8	0	+8
AI search presence	0	0	level
Content & trust	45	37	+8

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

Speed & CWV		-5
Technical		+12
Local presence		+11.5
Visibility		+8
AI search presence		0
Content & trust		+8

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 9.3 years ago.

Where this firm ranks

Ranks for 2 of 12 keywords, average position 75.5, 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	#85
self build architect Bath	#66
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		58
Technical		100
Local presence		90
Visibility		8
AI search presence		0
Content & trust		45

this firm sector median leader

Marptree Design & Build limited trails Designscape Architects by 154 points across 4 pillars, but 68% of that is AI search presence and Visibility alone. It already matches or beats the leader on Technical, Local presence.

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	4.3 / 5
Reviews	29
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.

• amazing team4
• attention to detail4
• recommendation3
• job3
• new bathroom3
• attentive staff2
• finished project2
• design options2
• high quality work2
• overall work2

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	45	about page: yes · team page: no · credentials: no · blog or news: yes · homepage: 236 words · last changed: 3407 days ago
Visibility	8	ranks for 2 of 12 keywords · average position 75.5 · local 3-pack: 0
Local presence	90	29 reviews · rated 4.3 · 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.

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 (8 vs 53); Speed & CWV (58 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 Marptree Design & Build limited in this ranking, beyond the two either side.

Firm	Rank	Score	Why it is here
Bath Heritage Building ltd	#22	56/100	2 places above you
The conservation architecture practice	#26	55/100	2 places below you
Studio Four Point Ten Architects	#21	57/100	3 places above you
Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios	#27	54/100	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 09123919 · 12.1 years old · active · SIC 41201, 41202
Real-user speed (CrUX)	Too little traffic to appear in Chrome’s public dataset
Lighthouse (lab, mobile)	Performance 53 · accessibility 86 · best practices 81 · SEO 92 — biggest losses: Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order; Document request latency; Document does not have a meta description
Google profile detail	8 photos · claimed · has a description · hours listed · 5 of 29 reviews are one star
Backlinks	54 referring domains · 138 links · rank 70 · 95 broken
Site structure	1 pages crawled · 17 internal links per page · reachable in: contact 1 click, about 1 click, services 1 click · 0% of links use a generic anchor · 8 sitemap pages not reachable by following links
Sitemap	8 URLs listed · declared in robots.txt · newest entry 3 days old · 5 of 5 sampled URLs resolve

Where to get this fixed

Marptree Design & Build limited’s lowest-scoring pillars among those we publish remediation guidance for:

• 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.
• Visibility (8/100) — read topical authority on why ranking breadth across a sector beats chasing single terms. Background on analysing this pillar: visibility.

↑ Ranked aboveDonald Insall Associates#23 · 55/100 Full indexAll 80 firms ↓ Ranked belowStonewood Design#25 · 55/100

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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.