Sims Hilditch — Bath Architect Digital Visibility Score

Digital Visibility Score: 51 / 100 · Rank 37 of 80

Digital Visibility Score51/100Rank 37 of 80 · top 46%Problems found1Very little published content Furthest behind-10Speed & CWV: 53 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	53	63	−10
Technical	100	88	+12
Local presence	87	78.5	+8.5
Visibility	0	0	level
AI search presence	0	0	level
Content & trust	30	37	−7

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

Speed & CWV		-10
Technical		+12
Local presence		+8.5
Visibility		0
AI search presence		0
Content & trust		-7

Problems found

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

Worth fixingVery little published contentThe homepage carries 394 words and the site links to no blog, news or insights section. There is little here for a search engine to match, or for an assistant to quote.

Where this firm ranks

Ranks for 0 of 12 keywords, 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	not in top 100
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		53
Technical		100
Local presence		87
Visibility		0
AI search presence		0
Content & trust		30

this firm sector median leader

Sims Hilditch trails Designscape Architects by 185 points across 5 pillars, but 61% of that is AI search presence and Visibility alone. It already matches or beats the leader on Technical.

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	4.8 / 5
Reviews	10
Locations	1
Reviews in last 90 days	0
Address matches website	yes

Lab speed against real users

Largest Contentful Paint measured two ways: one throttled lab run, against 28 days of real Chrome users.

Lab (Lighthouse, mobile)	52.1s	one throttled load on a datacentre machine
Field (real users)	2.3s	75th percentile of actual Chrome visitors over 28 days

The lab figure is 22.8× the real-user figure. The lab test rates this site poorly, but real visitors are not experiencing it that way — Core Web Vitals pass on field data. Treat a low lab score here as a lead to investigate, not a fault to pay to fix.

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	30	about page: yes · team page: no · credentials: no · blog or news: no · homepage: 394 words
Visibility	0	ranks for 0 of 12 keywords · local 3-pack: 0
Local presence	87	10 reviews · rated 4.8 · 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: 53/100, below the sector median of 63.

How this compares to the leader

Designscape Architects leads the index with 80/100. The largest gaps are: AI search presence (0 vs 60); Visibility (0 vs 53); Speed & CWV (53 vs 99).

Top fixes (ranked by impact)

Build local landing pages for the core keyword basket to lift organic and local-pack appearance.
Publish structured, citable content and entity schema so AI engines surface the business for core local queries.
Add about/team pages, and refresh stale content.

Firms ranked near this one

The firms nearest Sims Hilditch in this ranking, beyond the two either side.

Firm	Rank	Score	Why it is here
Lord Architecture Ltd	#35	51/100	2 places above you
Sova Surveys Bath	#39	51/100	2 places below you
Alex Tart Architects, Bath	#34	51/100	3 places above you
Axon Architects	#40	50/100	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)	LCP 2280ms · INP 135ms · CLS 0.01 · passes Core Web Vitals
Lighthouse (lab, mobile)	Performance 45 · accessibility 97 · best practices 77 · SEO 100 — biggest losses: Reduce unused CSS; Render-blocking requests; Improve image delivery
Google profile detail	29 photos · claimed · has a description · hours listed · 0 of 10 reviews are one star
Backlinks	485 referring domains · 3656 links · rank 242 · 2055 broken
Site structure	25 pages crawled · 30.1 internal links per page · reachable in: contact 1 click, about 1 click, team 2 clicks · 2% of links use a generic anchor
Sitemap	110 URLs listed · declared in robots.txt · no lastmod dates · 5 of 5 sampled URLs resolve

Where to get this fixed

Sims Hilditch’s lowest-scoring pillars among those we publish remediation guidance for:

Visibility (0/100) — read topical authority on why ranking breadth across a sector beats chasing single terms. Background on analysing this pillar: visibility.
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.

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.