Alec French Architects — Bristol Architect Digital Visibility Score

Digital Visibility Score: 59 / 100 · Rank 8 of 80

Digital Visibility Score59/100Rank 8 of 80 · top 9%Critical problem1Search engines are being told not to index this site

Measured 31 August 2026 via the PYC Bristol 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	81	66	+15
Technical	75	75	level
Local presence	81	76.5	+4.5
Visibility	29	0	+29
AI search presence	0	0	level
Content & trust	70	40.5	+29.5

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

Speed & CWV		+15
Technical		0
Local presence		+4.5
Visibility		+29
AI search presence		0
Content & trust		+29.5

Problems found

1 critical problem found. These are specific, checkable faults on the site — not opinions about it.

CriticalSearch engines are being told not to index this siteThe site’s own robots.txt disallows crawling. Until that changes, nothing else on this page can help — the pages cannot enter the index in the first place.
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 5.3 years ago.

Where this firm ranks

Ranks for 4 of 12 keywords, average position 6.8, in the local 3-pack for 0 keywords.

Keyword	Position
architects Bristol	#5
architect Bristol	#6
architectural services Bristol	not in top 100
house extension architect Bristol	not in top 100
planning application architect Bristol	not in top 100
listed building architect Bristol	not in top 100
residential architects Bristol	#8
commercial architects Bristol	#8
self build architect Bristol	not in top 100
loft conversion architect Bristol	not in top 100
barn conversion architect Bristol	not in top 100
conservation architect Bristol	not in top 100

The gap to the leader

This firm against the sector median and the index leader, 3bd Architects, on every pillar.

Speed & CWV		81
Technical		75
Local presence		81
Visibility		29
AI search presence		0
Content & trust		70

this firm sector median leader

Alec French Architects trails 3bd Architects by 59 points across 5 pillars, but 75% of that is Technical and Speed & CWV alone. It already matches or beats the leader on AI search 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 Bristol?
✗	Which architect in Bristol would you recommend for a house extension?
✗	Top rated architectural practices in Bristol
✗	I need an architect in Bristol - who should I contact?
✗	Conservation architects in Bristol

Local presence

Google Business Profile.

Rating	5 / 5
Reviews	2
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	70	about page: yes · team page: no · credentials: yes · blog or news: yes · homepage: 869 words · last changed: 1945 days ago
Visibility	29	ranks for 4 of 12 keywords · average position 6.8 · local 3-pack: 0
Local presence	81	2 reviews · rated 5 · 0 new in 90 days
Technical	75	HTTPS: yes · page allows indexing: yes · robots.txt allows crawling: no · sitemap: yes · structured data: yes

Key findings

No pillar falls materially below the sector median this quarter.

How this compares to the leader

3bd Architects leads the index with 70/100. The largest gaps are: Technical (75 vs 100); Speed & CWV (81 vs 100).

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.
Add about/team pages, and refresh stale content.

Firms ranked near this one

The firms nearest Alec French Architects in this ranking, beyond the two either side.

Firm	Rank	Score	Why it is here
Moon Design	#6	61/100	2 places above you
105 West Architects	#10	58/100	2 places below you
Smith Maloney Hillier Architects Ltd	#5	64/100	3 places above you
D H V Architects	#11	58/100	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 05480768 · 21.2 years old · active · SIC 99999
Real-user speed (CrUX)	Too little traffic to appear in Chrome’s public dataset
Lighthouse (lab, mobile)	Performance 81 · accessibility 81 · best practices 41 · SEO 100 — biggest losses: Use efficient cache lifetimes; Uses deprecated APIs; Render-blocking requests
Google profile detail	28 photos · claimed · has a description · hours listed
Backlinks	212 referring domains · 351 links · rank 167 · 23 broken
Site structure	1 pages crawled · 81 internal links per page · reachable in: contact 1 click, about 1 click, services 1 click · 1% of links use a generic anchor
Sitemap	not declared in robots.txt

Where to get this fixed

Alec French 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 (29/100) — 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.