Ascent Architecture — Bristol Architect Digital Visibility Score

Digital Visibility Score: 55 / 100 · Rank 19 of 80

Digital Visibility Score55/100Rank 19 of 80 · top 23%Problems found2No XML sitemap found Furthest behind-12Technical: 63 against a sector median of 75

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	60	66	−6
Technical	63	75	−12
Local presence	90	76.5	+13.5
Visibility	27	0	+27
AI search presence	20	0	+20
Content & trust	55	40.5	+14.5

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

Speed & CWV		-6
Technical		-12
Local presence		+13.5
Visibility		+27
AI search presence		+20
Content & trust		+14.5

Problems found

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

Worth fixingNo XML sitemap foundSearch engines have to discover every page by following links. On a small site that is survivable; on a large one it is not.
Worth fixingNo structured data on the homepageNothing tells a search engine or an assistant what this business is, where it is, or what it does — in machine-readable terms.

Where this firm ranks

Ranks for 4 of 12 keywords, average position 39.5, in the local 3-pack for 6 keywords.

Keyword	Position
architects Bristol	#51
architect Bristol	not in top 100
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	#33
residential architects Bristol	#39
commercial architects Bristol	#35
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		60
Technical		63
Local presence		90
Visibility		27
AI search presence		20
Content & trust		55

this firm sector median leader

Ascent Architecture trails 3bd Architects by 101 points across 4 pillars, but 76% of that is Speed & CWV and Technical alone. It already matches or beats the leader on Local presence, AI search presence.

AI search presence

Named in 1 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	named
✗	I need an architect in Bristol - who should I contact?
✗	Conservation architects in Bristol

Local presence

Google Business Profile.

Rating	4.9 / 5
Reviews	16
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.

attention to detail6
building regulations4
drawings3
innovative design2
barn2
commercial design2
planning approval2
creative approach2
easy to work with2
residential projects2

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	55	about page: no · team page: yes · credentials: yes · blog or news: no · homepage: 562 words
Visibility	27	ranks for 4 of 12 keywords · average position 39.5 · local 3-pack: 6
Local presence	90	16 reviews · rated 4.9 · 0 new in 90 days
Technical	63	HTTPS: yes · page allows indexing: yes · robots.txt allows crawling: yes · sitemap: no · structured data: no

Key findings

Technical: 63/100, below the sector median of 75.

How this compares to the leader

3bd Architects leads the index with 70/100. The largest gaps are: Speed & CWV (60 vs 100); Technical (63 vs 100); Content & trust (55 vs 75).

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 Ascent Architecture in this ranking, beyond the two either side.

Firm	Rank	Score	Why it is here
Greener Consultants	#17	56/100	2 places above you
Fatkin	#21	54/100	2 places below you
Aspect360	#16	56/100	3 places above you
Marshall and Kendon Architects	#22	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 07730011 · 15.1 years old · active · SIC 82990
Real-user speed (CrUX)	Too little traffic to appear in Chrome’s public dataset
Lighthouse (lab, mobile)	Performance 41 · accessibility 86 · best practices 78 · SEO 92 — biggest losses: Document does not have a meta description; LCP request discovery; Avoid large layout shifts
Google profile detail	19 photos · claimed · has a description · hours listed · 0 of 16 reviews are one star
Backlinks	60 referring domains · 109 links · rank 92
Site structure	1 pages crawled · 19 internal links per page · reachable in: contact 1 click, services 1 click · 5% of links use a generic anchor
Sitemap	declared in robots.txt

Where to get this fixed

Ascent Architecture’s lowest-scoring pillars among those we publish remediation guidance for:

AI search presence (20/100) — read generative engine optimisation on getting named by the answer engines this pillar measures. Background on analysing this pillar: ai search presence.
Visibility (27/100) — 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.