Mace Group — Bristol Architect Digital Visibility Score

Digital Visibility Score: 52 / 100 · Rank 27 of 80

Digital Visibility Score52/100Rank 27 of 80 · top 33%Problems found1No XML sitemap found

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	75	75	level
Local presence	77	76.5	+0.5
Visibility	0	0	level
AI search presence	0	0	level
Content & trust	—	40.5	not measured

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

Speed & CWV		+15
Technical		0
Local presence		+0.5
Visibility		0
AI search presence		0
Content & trust		not measured

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.

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		75
Local presence		77
Visibility		0
AI search presence		0

this firm sector median leader

Mace Group trails 3bd Architects by 87 points across 4 pillars, but 64% of that is Visibility and Technical 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	4.3 / 5
Reviews	7
Locations	1
Reviews in last 90 days	1
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
Visibility	0	ranks for 0 of 12 keywords · local 3-pack: 0
Local presence	77	7 reviews · rated 4.3 · 1 new in 90 days
Technical	75	HTTPS: yes · page allows indexing: — · robots.txt allows crawling: yes · sitemap: no · structured data: —

Key findings

• No pillar falls materially below the sector median this quarter.

How this compares to the leader

3bd Architects leads the index with 70/100. The largest gaps are: Visibility (0 vs 31); Technical (75 vs 100); 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. 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 Mace Group in this ranking, beyond the two either side.

Firm	Rank	Score	Why it is here
R & J Consultants	#25	53/100	2 places above you
OSP Architecture - Bristol	#29	52/100	2 places below you
Grow Architects	#24	53/100	3 places above you
Childs Sulzmann Architects	#30	51/100	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 73 · accessibility 100 · best practices 81 · SEO 92 — biggest losses: Reduce unused JavaScript; Links do not have descriptive text; Improve image delivery
Google profile detail	1 photo · unclaimed · no description · no hours listed · 1 of 7 reviews are one star
Backlinks	3457 referring domains · 27328 links · rank 316 · 1119 broken
Site structure	Not crawled — homepage HTTP 403

Where to get this fixed

Mace Group’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 aboveSJP Architectural Consultants Ltd.#26 · 53/100 Full indexAll 80 firms ↓ Ranked belowNoma Architects Ltd#28 · 52/100

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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.