Fatkin — Bristol Architect Digital Visibility Score

Digital Visibility Score: 54 / 100 · Rank 21 of 80

Digital Visibility Score54/100Rank 21 of 80 · top 25%Critical problem1Search engines are being told not to index this siteFurthest behind-13.5Local presence: 63 against a sector median of 76.5

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	81	66	+15
Technical	88	75	+13
Local presence	63	76.5	−13.5
Visibility	0	0	level
AI search presence	0	0	level
Content & trust	79	40.5	+38.5

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

Speed & CWV		+15
Technical		+13
Local presence		-13.5
Visibility		0
AI search presence		0
Content & trust		+38.5

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 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		81
Technical		88
Local presence		63
Visibility		0
AI search presence		0
Content & trust		79

this firm sector median leader

Fatkin trails 3bd Architects by 88 points across 4 pillars, but 65% of that is Visibility and Local presence 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

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	79	about page: yes · team page: yes · credentials: yes · blog or news: no · homepage: 717 words · last changed: 27 days ago
Visibility	0	ranks for 0 of 12 keywords · local 3-pack: 0
Local presence	63	0 reviews · 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

• Local presence: 63/100, below the sector median of 76.5.

How this compares to the leader

3bd Architects leads the index with 70/100. The largest gaps are: Visibility (0 vs 31); Local presence (63 vs 89); Speed & CWV (81 vs 100).

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. Restart Google review generation and complete the Business Profile to close the local-pack gap.

Firms ranked near this one

The firms nearest Fatkin in this ranking, beyond the two either side.

Firm	Rank	Score	Why it is here
Ascent Architecture	#19	55/100	2 places above you
Mason Architectural Design	#23	54/100	2 places below you
310 Studio Architects	#18	55/100	3 places above you
Grow Architects	#24	53/100	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 81 · accessibility 92 · best practices 81 · SEO 100 — biggest losses: Document request latency; Network dependency tree; Background and foreground colors do not have a sufficient contrast ratio.
Google profile detail	2 photos · claimed · has a description · hours listed
Backlinks	61 referring domains · 273 links · rank 231
Site structure	1 pages crawled · 9 internal links per page · 0% of links use a generic anchor · 0 sitemap pages not reachable by following links
Sitemap	1 URLs listed · declared in robots.txt · newest entry 27 days old · 1 of 1 sampled URLs resolve

Where to get this fixed

Fatkin’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 aboveCharcoalblue Bristol#20 · 54/100 Full indexAll 80 firms ↓ Ranked belowMarshall and Kendon Architects#22 · 54/100

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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.