Clifton Emery design — Bristol Architect Digital Visibility Score

Digital Visibility Score: 44 / 100 · Rank 55 of 80

Digital Visibility Score44/100Rank 55 of 80Problems found2No XML sitemap foundFurthest behind-32Technical: 43 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	62	66	−4
Technical	43	75	−32
Local presence	76	76.5	−0.5
Visibility	0	0	level
AI search presence	0	0	level
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		-4
Technical		-32
Local presence		-0.5
Visibility		0
AI search presence		0
Content & trust		+39.5

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 0 of 12 keywords, 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	not in top 100
listed building architect Bristol	not in top 100
residential architects Bristol	not in top 100
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		62
Technical		43
Local presence		76
Visibility		0
AI search presence		0
Content & trust		80

this firm sector median leader

Clifton Emery design trails 3bd Architects by 139 points across 4 pillars, but 68% of that is Technical and Speed & CWV alone. It already matches or beats the leader on AI search presence, Content & trust.

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	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: yes · team page: no · credentials: yes · blog or news: yes · homepage: 4,488 words
Visibility	0	ranks for 0 of 12 keywords · local 3-pack: 0
Local presence	76	1 reviews · rated 5 · 0 new in 90 days
Technical	43	HTTPS: yes · page allows indexing: yes · robots.txt allows crawling: — · sitemap: no · structured data: no

Key findings

• Technical: 43/100, below the sector median of 75.

How this compares to the leader

3bd Architects leads the index with 70/100. The largest gaps are: Technical (43 vs 100); Speed & CWV (62 vs 100); Visibility (0 vs 31).

Top fixes (ranked by impact)

1. Build local landing pages for the core keyword basket to lift organic and local-pack appearance.
2. Publish structured, citable content and entity schema so AI engines surface the business for core local queries.
3. Add valid LocalBusiness schema, fix indexability, and ensure a fresh XML sitemap is referenced in robots.txt.

Firms ranked near this one

The firms nearest Clifton Emery design in this ranking, beyond the two either side.

Firm	Rank	Score	Why it is here
Building Plans Bristol	#53	45/100	2 places above you
Sketchplay Playground Architects	#57	44/100	2 places below you
FirstFox Architecture Ltd	#52	46/100	3 places above you
Clear Future Architecture Ltd	#58	43/100	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	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 64 · accessibility 85 · best practices 78 · SEO 75 — biggest losses: LCP breakdown; Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio; Time to Interactive
Google profile detail	1 photo · claimed · no description · hours listed
Backlinks	83 referring domains · 178 links · rank 197
Site structure	1 pages crawled · 473 internal links per page · reachable in: contact 1 click, about 1 click · 0% of links use a generic anchor
Sitemap	not declared in robots.txt

Where to get this fixed

Clifton Emery design’s lowest-scoring pillars among those we publish remediation guidance for:

• Visibility (0/100) — read topical authority on why ranking breadth across a sector beats chasing single terms. Background on analysing this pillar: visibility.
• 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.

↑ Ranked aboveClifton Architects Limited#54 · 44/100 Full indexAll 80 firms ↓ Ranked belowRSJ Construction Ltd#56 · 44/100

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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.