Sova Surveys Bath — Bath Architect Digital Visibility Score

Digital Visibility Score: 51 / 100 · Rank 39 of 80

Digital Visibility Score51/100Rank 39 of 80 · top 48%Problems found2Structured data present, but no LocalBusiness markup Furthest behind-7.5Local presence: 71 against a sector median of 78.5

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	61	63	−2
Technical	88	88	level
Local presence	71	78.5	−7.5
Visibility	0	0	level
AI search presence	0	0	level
Content & trust	70	37	+33

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

Speed & CWV		-2
Technical		0
Local presence		-7.5
Visibility		0
AI search presence		0
Content & trust		+33

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.
Worth knowingThe site has not changed in a long timeThe homepage last reported a change 5.4 years ago.

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		61
Technical		88
Local presence		71
Visibility		0
AI search presence		0
Content & trust		70

this firm sector median leader

Sova Surveys Bath trails Designscape Architects by 182 points across 5 pillars, but 62% of that is AI search presence and Visibility alone. It already matches or beats the leader on Content & trust.

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	3 / 5
Reviews	2
Locations	1
Reviews in last 90 days	1
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	70	about page: yes · team page: yes · credentials: no · blog or news: yes · homepage: 1,232 words · last changed: 1956 days ago
Visibility	0	ranks for 0 of 12 keywords · local 3-pack: 0
Local presence	71	2 reviews · rated 3 · 1 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); Visibility (0 vs 53); Speed & CWV (61 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.
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 Sova Surveys Bath in this ranking, beyond the two either side.

Firm	Rank	Score	Why it is here
Sims Hilditch	#37	51/100	2 places above you
Jonathan Logsdon Architect	#41	50/100	2 places below you
Paragon Structures	#36	51/100	3 places above you
The Curator's House Interior Design	#42	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)	Too little traffic to appear in Chrome’s public dataset
Lighthouse (lab, mobile)	Performance 82 · accessibility 93 · best practices 100 · SEO 85 — biggest losses: Links do not have descriptive text; LCP breakdown; SVG elements with an `img` role do not have an accessible text alternative
Google profile detail	11 photos · claimed · has a description · hours listed
Backlinks	108 referring domains · 360 links · rank 177
Site structure	25 pages crawled · 99.1 internal links per page · reachable in: contact 1 click, about 1 click, services 1 click · 1% of links use a generic anchor
Sitemap	13 URLs listed · declared in robots.txt · newest entry 6 days old · 5 of 5 sampled URLs resolve

Where to get this fixed

Sova Surveys Bath’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.