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.
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.
Worth fixingNo mobile viewport tagThe page is not telling phones how to lay itself out. Most local searches happen on one.
Worth fixingVery little published contentThe homepage carries 111 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.
Worth knowingThe site has not changed in a long timeThe homepage last reported a change 10.4 years ago.
This firm against the sector median and the index leader, 3bd Architects, on every pillar.
Speed & CWV
100
Technical
29
Local presence
71
Visibility
8
AI search presence
20
Content & trust
8
this firm sector median leader
Building Plans Bristol trails 3bd Architects by 179 points across 4 pillars, but 77% of that is Technical and Content & trust alone. It already matches or beats the leader on Speed & CWV, AI search presence.
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 99 · accessibility 71 · best practices 78 · SEO 100 — biggest losses: Render-blocking requests; Document does not have a main landmark.; Avoid multiple page redirects
Google profile detail
5 photos · claimed · no description · hours listed
Backlinks
41 referring domains · 86 links · rank 96
Site structure
1 pages crawled · 14 internal links per page · reachable in: contact 1 click, services 1 click · 0% of links use a generic anchor
Building Plans Bristol’s lowest-scoring pillars among those we publish remediation guidance for:
Visibility (8/100) and Content & trust (8/100) — read topical authority on why ranking breadth across a sector beats chasing single terms. Background on analysing these pillars: visibility, content & trust.