PLACE By Design — Bristol Architect Digital Visibility Score

Digital Visibility Score: 43 / 100 · Rank 60 of 80

Digital Visibility Score43/100Rank 60 of 80Problems found1No XML sitemap foundFurthest 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	62	66	−4
Technical	67	75	−8
Local presence	63	76.5	−13.5
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		-4
Technical		-8
Local presence		-13.5
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		62
Technical		67
Local presence		63
Visibility		0
AI search presence		0

this firm sector median leader

PLACE By Design trails 3bd Architects by 128 points across 4 pillars, but 55% of that is Speed & CWV 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

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	63	0 reviews · 0 new in 90 days
Technical	67	HTTPS: — · page allows indexing: — · robots.txt allows crawling: yes · sitemap: no · structured data: —

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: Speed & CWV (62 vs 100); Technical (67 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. Cut mobile LCP below 2.5s (optimise images and remove render-blocking resources) — the biggest score and ranking lever.

Firms ranked near this one

The firms nearest PLACE By Design in this ranking, beyond the two either side.

Firm	Rank	Score	Why it is here
Clear Future Architecture Ltd	#58	43/100	2 places above you
WH Architects	#62	42/100	2 places below you
Sketchplay Playground Architects	#57	44/100	3 places above you
Nicholas Morley Architects Ltd	#63	41/100	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	Company 07596922 · 15.4 years old · active · SIC 71111, 71112
Real-user speed (CrUX)	Too little traffic to appear in Chrome’s public dataset
Lighthouse (lab, mobile)	Performance 65 · accessibility 75 · best practices 78 · SEO 54 — biggest losses: LCP request discovery; Font display; Page is blocked from indexing
Google profile detail	2 photos · claimed · no description · hours listed
Backlinks	73 referring domains · 106 links · rank 108
Site structure	Not crawled — fetch failed

Where to get this fixed

PLACE By 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 aboveGabriela Roberts Architecture#59 · 43/100 Full indexAll 80 firms ↓ Ranked belowEtch Architecture#61 · 42/100

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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.