Cotswold Architecture + Design | Contemporary Architecture & Extension Specialists — Cheltenham Architect Digital Visibility Score

Digital Visibility Score: 51 / 100 · Rank 28 of 59

Digital Visibility Score51/100Rank 28 of 59 · top 47%Critical problem1Search engines are being told not to index this site

Measured 1 September 2026 via the PYC Cheltenham 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	63	63	level
Technical	75	75	level
Local presence	90	73	+17
Visibility	7	0	+7
AI search presence	0	0	level
Content & trust	45	35	+10

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

Speed & CWV		0
Technical		0
Local presence		+17
Visibility		+7
AI search presence		0
Content & trust		+10

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.

Where this firm ranks

Ranks for 1 of 12 keywords, average position 46, in the local 3-pack for 2 keywords.

Keyword	Position
architects Cheltenham	not in top 100
architect Cheltenham	not in top 100
architectural services Cheltenham	not in top 100
house extension architect Cheltenham	#46
planning application architect Cheltenham	not in top 100
listed building architect Cheltenham	not in top 100
residential architects Cheltenham	not in top 100
commercial architects Cheltenham	not in top 100
self build architect Cheltenham	not in top 100
loft conversion architect Cheltenham	not in top 100
barn conversion architect Cheltenham	not in top 100
conservation architect Cheltenham	not in top 100

The gap to the leader

This firm against the sector median and the index leader, RE-Design Architects, on every pillar.

Speed & CWV		63
Technical		75
Local presence		90
Visibility		7
AI search presence		0
Content & trust		45

this firm sector median leader

Cotswold Architecture + Design | Contemporary Architecture & Extension Specialists trails RE-Design Architects by 155 points across 4 pillars, but 79% of that is AI search presence and Visibility alone. It already matches or beats the leader on Speed & CWV, Local 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 Cheltenham?
✗	Which architect in Cheltenham would you recommend for a house extension?
✗	Top rated architectural practices in Cheltenham
✗	I need an architect in Cheltenham - who should I contact?
✗	Conservation architects in Cheltenham

Local presence

Google Business Profile.

Rating	5 / 5
Reviews	16
Locations	1
Reviews in last 90 days	0
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.

planning permission assistance6
drawings5
polite staff3
ideas3
detailed drawings2
attention to detail2
promptness2
communication2
listening skills2
kitchen2

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: 191 words
Visibility	7	ranks for 1 of 12 keywords · average position 46 · local 3-pack: 2
Local presence	90	16 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

No pillar falls materially below the sector median this quarter.

How this compares to the leader

RE-Design Architects leads the index with 74/100. The largest gaps are: AI search presence (0 vs 80); Visibility (7 vs 49); Technical (75 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 Cotswold Architecture + Design | Contemporary Architecture & Extension Specialists in this ranking, beyond the two either side.

Firm	Rank	Score	Why it is here
VJM Design House Ltd	#26	52/100	2 places above you
Blueprint Architecture	#30	50/100	2 places below you
Journeyman Draughting & Design	#25	52/100	3 places above you
Stantec	#31	50/100	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 69 · accessibility 96 · best practices 81 · SEO 100 — biggest losses: Background and foreground colors do not have a sufficient contrast ratio.; Avoid multiple page redirects; Does not use HTTPS
Google profile detail	111 photos · claimed · has a description · hours listed · 0 of 16 reviews are one star
Backlinks	12 referring domains · 14 links · rank 52 · 2 broken
Site structure	1 pages crawled · 32 internal links per page · reachable in: contact 1 click, about 1 click, services 1 click · 0% of links use a generic anchor · 16 sitemap pages not reachable by following links
Sitemap	16 URLs listed · declared in robots.txt · newest entry 168 days old · 5 of 5 sampled URLs resolve

Where to get this fixed

Cotswold Architecture + Design | Contemporary Architecture & Extension Specialists’s lowest-scoring pillars among those we publish remediation guidance for:

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.
Visibility (7/100) — 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.