Acorus Rural Property Services Ltd — Exeter Architect Digital Visibility Score

Digital Visibility Score: 56 / 100 · Rank 20 of 63

Digital Visibility Score56/100Rank 20 of 63 · top 31%Problems found1The site has not changed in a long time Furthest behind-6Speed & CWV: 58 against a sector median of 64

Measured 1 September 2026 via the PYC Exeter 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	58	64	−6
Technical	100	88	+12
Local presence	80	76	+4
Visibility	0	4	−4
AI search presence	0	0	level
Content & trust	87	49.5	+37.5

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

Speed & CWV		-6
Technical		+12
Local presence		+4
Visibility		-4
AI search presence		0
Content & trust		+37.5

Problems found

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

Worth knowingThe site has not changed in a long timeThe homepage last reported a change 5.4 years ago.

Where this firm ranks

Ranks for 0 of 12 keywords, in the local 3-pack for 0 keywords.

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

The gap to the leader

This firm against the sector median and the index leader, Living Space Architects, on every pillar.

Speed & CWV		58
Technical		100
Local presence		80
Visibility		0
AI search presence		0
Content & trust		87

this firm sector median leader

Acorus Rural Property Services Ltd trails Living Space Architects by 182 points across 4 pillars, but 84% of that is AI search presence and Visibility alone. It already matches or beats the leader on Technical, Content & trust.

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 Exeter?
✗	Which architect in Exeter would you recommend for a house extension?
✗	Top rated architectural practices in Exeter
✗	I need an architect in Exeter - who should I contact?
✗	Conservation architects in Exeter

Local presence

Google Business Profile.

Rating	4.3 / 5
Reviews	4
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	87	about page: yes · team page: yes · credentials: yes · blog or news: yes · homepage: 960 words · last changed: 1964 days ago
Visibility	0	ranks for 0 of 12 keywords · local 3-pack: 0
Local presence	80	4 reviews · rated 4.3 · 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

No pillar falls materially below the sector median this quarter.

How this compares to the leader

Living Space Architects leads the index with 82/100. The largest gaps are: AI search presence (0 vs 100); Visibility (0 vs 53); Speed & CWV (58 vs 79).

Top fixes (ranked by impact)

Build local landing pages for the core keyword basket to lift organic and local-pack appearance.
Publish structured, citable content and entity schema so AI engines surface the business for core local queries.
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 Acorus Rural Property Services Ltd in this ranking, beyond the two either side.

Firm	Rank	Score	Why it is here
Salmon Planning Company - West Somerset, Devon & Cornwall	#18	59/100	2 places above you
Axiom Architects	#22	55/100	2 places below you
PMR Architecture	#17	59/100	3 places above you
Bailey Partnership (Group) Ltd	#23	55/100	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 57 · accessibility 86 · best practices 100 · SEO 100 — biggest losses: Links do not have a discernible name; Font display; Background and foreground colors do not have a sufficient contrast ratio.
Google profile detail	3 photos · claimed · has a description · hours listed
Backlinks	120 referring domains · 285 links · rank 198
Site structure	Not crawled — homepage HTTP 403

Where to get this fixed

Acorus Rural Property Services 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.

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.