Silvan Architects — Bath Architect Digital Visibility Score

Digital Visibility Score: 59 / 100 · Rank 15 of 80

Digital Visibility Score59/100Rank 15 of 80 · top 18%Problems found1Structured data present, but no LocalBusiness markupOne page from the first2Closest: residential architects Bath at #12Furthest behind-6Speed & CWV: 57 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	57	63	−6
Technical	88	88	level
Local presence	87	78.5	+8.5
Visibility	33	0	+33
AI search presence	0	0	level
Content & trust	75	37	+38

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

Speed & CWV		-6
Technical		0
Local presence		+8.5
Visibility		+33
AI search presence		0
Content & trust		+38

Problems found

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

• Worth fixingStructured data present, but no LocalBusiness markupThe page describes something to machines, but not that it is a local business with an address and opening hours.

Where this firm ranks

Ranks for 4 of 12 keywords, average position 22.5, in the local 3-pack for 10 keywords.

Keyword	Position
architects Bath	#14
architect Bath	not in top 100
architectural services Bath	#43
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	#12
commercial architects Bath	#21
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		57
Technical		88
Local presence		87
Visibility		33
AI search presence		0
Content & trust		75

this firm sector median leader

Silvan Architects trails Designscape Architects by 137 points across 5 pillars, but 74% of that is AI search presence and Speed & CWV alone. It already matches or beats the leader on Content & trust.

Closest to the first page

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

residential architects Bath		#12
architects Bath		#14

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

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	5 / 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.

• creative5
• easy to work with4
• quick response3
• communication3
• loft conversion2
• cost transparency2
• thoroughness2
• space utilization2
• responsive2
• renovation2

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	75	about page: yes · team page: no · credentials: yes · blog or news: yes · homepage: 651 words
Visibility	33	ranks for 4 of 12 keywords · average position 22.5 · local 3-pack: 10
Local presence	87	15 reviews · rated 5 · 0 new in 90 days
Technical	88	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); Speed & CWV (57 vs 99); Visibility (33 vs 53).

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. 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 Silvan Architects in this ranking, beyond the two either side.

Firm	Rank	Score	Why it is here
KANN ARCHITECTURE	#13	59/100	2 places above you
Etons Of Bath	#17	57/100	2 places below you
Stride Treglown Bath	#12	60/100	3 places above you
Hetreed Ross Architects	#18	57/100	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 14127745 · 4.3 years old · active · SIC 71111
Real-user speed (CrUX)	Too little traffic to appear in Chrome’s public dataset
Lighthouse (lab, mobile)	Performance 48 · accessibility 95 · best practices 81 · SEO 100 — biggest losses: Reduce unused JavaScript; Legacy JavaScript; Largest Contentful Paint
Google profile detail	17 photos · claimed · has a description · hours listed · 0 of 15 reviews are one star
Backlinks	50 referring domains · 66 links · rank 107
Site structure	1 pages crawled · 43 internal links per page · reachable in: contact 1 click, about 1 click · 2% of links use a generic anchor · 31 sitemap pages not reachable by following links
Sitemap	31 URLs listed · not declared in robots.txt · newest entry 45 days old · 5 of 5 sampled URLs resolve

Where to get this fixed

Silvan Architects’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 (33/100) — read topical authority on why ranking breadth across a sector beats chasing single terms. Background on analysing this pillar: visibility.

↑ Ranked aboveNash Partnership#14 · 59/100 Full indexAll 80 firms ↓ Ranked belowNick Shipp Architects#16 · 58/100

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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.