CGA Architects (Chris Goodsall) — Bristol Architect Digital Visibility Score

Digital Visibility Score: 65 / 100 · Rank 3 of 80

Digital Visibility Score65/100Rank 3 of 80 · top 3%Critical problem1Search engines are being told not to index this site Furthest behind-8Speed & CWV: 58 against a sector median of 66

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	58	66	−8
Technical	88	75	+13
Local presence	79	76.5	+2.5
Visibility	41	0	+41
AI search presence	40	0	+40
Content & trust	80	40.5	+39.5

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

Speed & CWV		-8
Technical		+13
Local presence		+2.5
Visibility		+41
AI search presence		+40
Content & trust		+39.5

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.

Where this firm ranks

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

Keyword	Position
architects Bristol	not in top 100
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	#2
listed building architect Bristol	#3
residential architects Bristol	not in top 100
commercial architects Bristol	#6
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	#1

The gap to the leader

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

Speed & CWV		58
Technical		88
Local presence		79
Visibility		41
AI search presence		40
Content & trust		80

this firm sector median leader

CGA Architects (Chris Goodsall) trails 3bd Architects by 64 points across 3 pillars, but 84% of that is Speed & CWV and Technical alone. It already matches or beats the leader on Visibility, AI search presence, Content & trust.

AI search presence

Named in 2 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?	cited by domain
✓	Conservation architects in Bristol	cited by domain

Local presence

Google Business Profile.

Rating	5 / 5
Reviews	1
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	80	about page: no · team page: yes · credentials: yes · blog or news: yes · homepage: 1,106 words
Visibility	41	ranks for 4 of 12 keywords · average position 3 · local 3-pack: 0
Local presence	79	1 reviews · rated 5 · 0 new in 90 days
Technical	88	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: Speed & CWV (58 vs 100); Technical (88 vs 100); Local presence (79 vs 89).

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.
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 CGA Architects (Chris Goodsall) in this ranking, beyond the two either side.

Firm	Rank	Score	Why it is here
3bd Architects	#1	70/100	2 places above you
Smith Maloney Hillier Architects Ltd	#5	64/100	2 places below you
Moon Design	#6	61/100	3 places below you
AHR Architects \| Bristol	#7	59/100	4 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 56 · accessibility 95 · best practices 81 · SEO 100 — biggest losses: Forced reflow; Largest Contentful Paint; Document request latency
Google profile detail	24 photos · claimed · has a description · hours listed
Backlinks	29 referring domains · 32 links · rank 0
Site structure	1 pages crawled · 29 internal links per page · reachable in: team 1 click · 0% of links use a generic anchor · 4 sitemap pages not reachable by following links
Sitemap	4 URLs listed · declared in robots.txt · newest entry 693 days old · 4 of 4 sampled URLs resolve

Where to get this fixed

CGA Architects (Chris Goodsall)‘s lowest-scoring pillars among those we publish remediation guidance for:

AI search presence (40/100) — read generative engine optimisation on getting named by the answer engines this pillar measures. Background on analysing this pillar: ai search presence.
Visibility (41/100) — 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.