FirstFox Architecture Ltd — Bristol Architect Digital Visibility Score

Digital Visibility Score: 46 / 100 · Rank 52 of 80

Digital Visibility Score46/100Rank 52 of 80Critical problem1Search engines are being told not to index this siteFurthest behind-15.5Content & trust: 25 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	65	66	−1
Technical	75	75	level
Local presence	76	76.5	−0.5
Visibility	0	0	level
AI search presence	0	0	level
Content & trust	25	40.5	−15.5

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

Speed & CWV		-1
Technical		0
Local presence		-0.5
Visibility		0
AI search presence		0
Content & trust		-15.5

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.
• Worth fixingStructured data present, but no LocalBusiness markupThe page describes something to machines, but not that it is a local business with an address and opening hours.
• Worth fixingVery little published contentThe homepage carries 104 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 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		65
Technical		75
Local presence		76
Visibility		0
AI search presence		0
Content & trust		25

this firm sector median leader

FirstFox Architecture Ltd trails 3bd Architects by 154 points across 5 pillars, but 55% 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

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	25	about page: yes · team page: no · credentials: no · blog or news: no · homepage: 104 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	75	HTTPS: yes · page allows indexing: yes · robots.txt allows crawling: no · sitemap: yes · structured data: yes

Key findings

• Content & trust: 25/100, 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 (25 vs 75); Speed & CWV (65 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 about/team pages, and refresh stale content.

Firms ranked near this one

The firms nearest FirstFox Architecture Ltd in this ranking, beyond the two either side.

Firm	Rank	Score	Why it is here
7 Architects	#50	46/100	2 places above you
Clifton Architects Limited	#54	44/100	2 places below you
Red Twin Limited - Bristol	#49	47/100	3 places above you
Clifton Emery design	#55	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	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 58 · accessibility 95 · best practices 56 · SEO 100 — biggest losses: Largest Contentful Paint; Issues were logged in the `Issues` panel in Chrome Devtools; Minimize main-thread work
Google profile detail	46 photos · claimed · no description · hours listed
Backlinks	47 referring domains · 60 links · rank 21
Site structure	1 pages crawled · 7 internal links per page · reachable in: about 1 click · 0% of links use a generic anchor · 2 sitemap pages not reachable by following links
Sitemap	3 URLs listed · declared in robots.txt · newest entry 757 days old · 3 of 3 sampled URLs resolve

Where to get this fixed

FirstFox Architecture Ltd’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 aboveExtension Architecture Bristol - Extension Plans & Design#51 · 46/100 Full indexAll 80 firms ↓ Ranked belowBuilding Plans Bristol#53 · 45/100

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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.