Clifton Architects Limited — Bristol Architect Digital Visibility Score

Digital Visibility Score: 44 / 100 · Rank 54 of 80

Digital Visibility Score44/100Rank 54 of 80 Critical problem1The site is not served over HTTPS Furthest behind-30.5Content & trust: 10 against a sector median of 40.5

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	57	66	−9
Technical	88	75	+13
Local presence	59	76.5	−17.5
Visibility	13	0	+13
AI search presence	0	0	level
Content & trust	10	40.5	−30.5

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

Speed & CWV		-9
Technical		+13
Local presence		-17.5
Visibility		+13
AI search presence		0
Content & trust		-30.5

Problems found

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

CriticalThe site is not served over HTTPSBrowsers mark it as not secure, and it is a ranking signal in its own right.
Worth fixingVery little published contentThe homepage carries 275 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.

Where this firm ranks

Ranks for 3 of 12 keywords, average position 35.7, in the local 3-pack for 0 keywords.

Keyword	Position
architects Bristol	#34
architect Bristol	#37
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	#36
commercial architects Bristol	not in top 100
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		57
Technical		88
Local presence		59
Visibility		13
AI search presence		0
Content & trust		10

this firm sector median leader

Clifton Architects Limited trails 3bd Architects by 168 points across 5 pillars, but 64% of that is Content & trust 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

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	10	about page: no · team page: no · credentials: no · blog or news: no · homepage: 275 words
Visibility	13	ranks for 3 of 12 keywords · average position 35.7 · local 3-pack: 0
Local presence	59	0 reviews · 0 new in 90 days
Technical	88	HTTPS: no · page allows indexing: yes · robots.txt allows crawling: yes · sitemap: yes · structured data: yes

Key findings

Local presence: 59/100, below the sector median of 76.5.
Content & trust: 10/100, below the sector median of 40.5.

How this compares to the leader

3bd Architects leads the index with 70/100. The largest gaps are: Content & trust (10 vs 75); Speed & CWV (57 vs 100); Local presence (59 vs 89).

Top fixes (ranked by impact)

Publish structured, citable content and entity schema so AI engines surface the business for core local queries.
Add about/team pages, and refresh stale content.
Build local landing pages for the core keyword basket to lift organic and local-pack appearance.

Firms ranked near this one

The firms nearest Clifton Architects Limited in this ranking, beyond the two either side.

Firm	Rank	Score	Why it is here
FirstFox Architecture Ltd	#52	46/100	2 places above you
RSJ Construction Ltd	#56	44/100	2 places below you
Extension Architecture Bristol - Extension Plans & Design	#51	46/100	3 places above you
Sketchplay Playground Architects	#57	44/100	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 09516750 · 11.4 years old · active · SIC 71111
Real-user speed (CrUX)	Too little traffic to appear in Chrome’s public dataset
Lighthouse (lab, mobile)	Performance 55 · accessibility 96 · best practices 74 · SEO 92 — biggest losses: Reduce unused JavaScript; Background and foreground colors do not have a sufficient contrast ratio.; Document request latency
Google profile detail	1 photo · unclaimed · no description · no hours listed
Backlinks	49 referring domains · 53 links · rank 58
Site structure	1 pages crawled · 9 internal links per page · 0% of links use a generic anchor · 8 sitemap pages not reachable by following links
Sitemap	8 URLs listed · not declared in robots.txt · newest entry 4134 days old · 5 of 5 sampled URLs resolve

Where to get this fixed

Clifton Architects Limited’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.
Content & trust (10/100) — read topical authority on how depth and coverage compound into citation-worthiness. Background on analysing this pillar: content & trust.

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.