Sutton Cox Architects Limited — Cheltenham Architect Digital Visibility Score

Digital Visibility Score: 66 / 100 · Rank 9 of 59

Digital Visibility Score66/100Rank 9 of 59 · top 14%Problems found1Very little published contentOne page from the first4Closest: commercial architects Cheltenham at #16Furthest behind-10Local presence: 63 against a sector median of 73

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	59	63	−4
Technical	100	75	+25
Local presence	63	73	−10
Visibility	33	0	+33
AI search presence	80	0	+80
Content & trust	45	35	+10

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

Speed & CWV		-4
Technical		+25
Local presence		-10
Visibility		+33
AI search presence		+80
Content & trust		+10

Problems found

These are specific, checkable faults on the site — not opinions about it.

• Worth fixingVery little published contentThe homepage carries 129 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 8 of 12 keywords, average position 20, in the local 3-pack for 0 keywords.

Keyword	Position
architects Cheltenham	#22
architect Cheltenham	#28
architectural services Cheltenham	#18
house extension architect Cheltenham	not in top 100
planning application architect Cheltenham	not in top 100
listed building architect Cheltenham	#35
residential architects Cheltenham	#19
commercial architects Cheltenham	#16
self build architect Cheltenham	#20
loft conversion architect Cheltenham	not in top 100
barn conversion architect Cheltenham	not in top 100
conservation architect Cheltenham	#2

The gap to the leader

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

Speed & CWV		59
Technical		100
Local presence		63
Visibility		33
AI search presence		80
Content & trust		45

this firm sector median leader

Sutton Cox Architects Limited trails RE-Design Architects by 49 points across 3 pillars, but 84% of that is Local presence and Visibility alone. It already matches or beats the leader on Speed & CWV, Technical, AI search presence.

Closest to the first page

Ranked between #11 and #20 — one page from the first, ordered by how close.

commercial architects Cheltenham		#16
architectural services Cheltenham		#18
residential architects Cheltenham		#19
self build architect Cheltenham		#20

4 positions sit between #11 and #20 — one page away, and the cheapest ranking work available to this firm.

AI search presence

Named in 4 of 5 AI answers. A domain citation is stronger evidence than a name mention.

✓	Who are the best architects in Cheltenham?	cited by domain
✗	Which architect in Cheltenham would you recommend for a house extension?
✓	Top rated architectural practices in Cheltenham	cited by domain
✓	I need an architect in Cheltenham - who should I contact?	cited by domain
✓	Conservation architects in Cheltenham	cited by domain

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: yes · blog or news: no · homepage: 129 words
Visibility	33	ranks for 8 of 12 keywords · average position 20 · local 3-pack: 0
Local presence	63	0 reviews · 0 new in 90 days
Technical	100	HTTPS: yes · page allows indexing: yes · robots.txt allows crawling: yes · sitemap: yes · structured data: yes

Key findings

• Local presence: 63/100, below the sector median of 73.

How this compares to the leader

RE-Design Architects leads the index with 74/100. The largest gaps are: Local presence (63 vs 88); Visibility (33 vs 49).

Top fixes (ranked by impact)

1. Build local landing pages for the core keyword basket to lift organic and local-pack appearance.
2. Add about/team pages, and refresh stale content.
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 Sutton Cox Architects Limited in this ranking, beyond the two either side.

Firm	Rank	Score	Why it is here
extendArchitecture	#7	67/100	2 places above you
Charles Mullineux Design Ltd - Architects	#11	62/100	2 places below you
Mekkara Architectural Consultants	#6	68/100	3 places above you
Apex Architecture Ltd	#12	61/100	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 11780123 · 7.6 years old · active · SIC 71111
Real-user speed (CrUX)	Too little traffic to appear in Chrome’s public dataset
Lighthouse (lab, mobile)	Performance 47 · accessibility 94 · best practices 78 · SEO 100 — biggest losses: Serves images with low resolution; Minimize main-thread work; Render-blocking requests
Google profile detail	1 photo · claimed · no description · hours listed
Backlinks	41 referring domains · 50 links · rank 154 · 3 broken
Site structure	1 pages crawled · 54 internal links per page · reachable in: contact 1 click, about 1 click, services 1 click · 0% of links use a generic anchor · 43 sitemap pages not reachable by following links
Sitemap	43 URLs listed · declared in robots.txt · newest entry 88 days old · 5 of 5 sampled URLs resolve

Where to get this fixed

Sutton Cox Architects Limited’s lowest-scoring pillars among those we publish remediation guidance for:

• Visibility (33/100) and Content & trust (45/100) — read topical authority on why ranking breadth across a sector beats chasing single terms. Background on analysing these pillars: visibility, content & trust.

↑ Ranked aboveCoombes Everitt Architects Limited#8 · 66/100 Full indexAll 59 firms ↓ Ranked belowEdge Design Workshop - Architects#10 · 64/100

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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.