D H V Architects — Bristol Architect Digital Visibility Score

Digital Visibility Score: 58 / 100 · Rank 11 of 80

Digital Visibility Score58/100Rank 11 of 80 · top 13%Critical problem1Search engines are being told not to index this site Furthest behind-12Speed & CWV: 54 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	54	66	−12
Technical	88	75	+13
Local presence	89	76.5	+12.5
Visibility	31	0	+31
AI search presence	20	0	+20
Content & trust	45	40.5	+4.5

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

Speed & CWV		-12
Technical		+13
Local presence		+12.5
Visibility		+31
AI search presence		+20
Content & trust		+4.5

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 2 of 12 keywords, average position 4, in the local 3-pack for 1 keyword.

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	#2
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	#6

The gap to the leader

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

Speed & CWV		54
Technical		88
Local presence		89
Visibility		31
AI search presence		20
Content & trust		45

this firm sector median leader

D H V Architects trails 3bd Architects by 88 points across 3 pillars, but 86% of that is Speed & CWV and Content & trust alone. It already matches or beats the leader on Local presence, Visibility, 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
✗	I need an architect in Bristol - who should I contact?
✓	Conservation architects in Bristol	cited by domain

Local presence

Google Business Profile.

Rating	5 / 5
Reviews	13
Locations	1
Reviews in last 90 days	4
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.

architectural design3
planning permission3
structural engineers2
skilled approach2
remodeling2
end result2
ideas2
design2
cost2

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	45	about page: yes · team page: no · credentials: no · blog or news: yes · homepage: 82 words
Visibility	31	ranks for 2 of 12 keywords · average position 4 · local 3-pack: 1
Local presence	89	13 reviews · rated 5 · 4 new in 90 days
Technical	88	HTTPS: yes · page allows indexing: yes · robots.txt allows crawling: no · sitemap: yes · structured data: yes

Key findings

Speed & CWV: 54/100, below the sector median of 66.

How this compares to the leader

3bd Architects leads the index with 70/100. The largest gaps are: Speed & CWV (54 vs 100); Content & trust (45 vs 75); Technical (88 vs 100).

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 D H V Architects in this ranking, beyond the two either side.

Firm	Rank	Score	Why it is here
Easton Bevins	#9	59/100	2 places above you
WBC Group (Western Building Consultants)	#13	58/100	2 places below you
Alec French Architects	#8	59/100	3 places above you
Metcalfe Design & Architecture	#14	57/100	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 65 · accessibility 85 · best practices 78 · SEO 100 — biggest losses: Buttons do not have an accessible name; Network dependency tree; Improve image delivery
Google profile detail	99 photos · claimed · has a description · hours listed · 0 of 13 reviews are one star
Backlinks	144 referring domains · 282 links · rank 149 · 36 broken
Site structure	1 pages crawled · 15 internal links per page · reachable in: contact 1 click, about 1 click, services 1 click · 0% of links use a generic anchor · 21 sitemap pages not reachable by following links
Sitemap	21 URLs listed · declared in robots.txt · newest entry 36 days old · 5 of 5 sampled URLs resolve

Where to get this fixed

D H V Architects’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 (31/100) — 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.