ARP Architects Ltd. — Exeter Architect Digital Visibility Score

Digital Visibility Score: 68 / 100 · Rank 6 of 63

Digital Visibility Score68/100Rank 6 of 63 · top 8%Furthest behind-28Speed & CWV: 36 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	36	64	−28
Technical	100	88	+12
Local presence	88	76	+12
Visibility	50	4	+46
AI search presence	80	0	+80
Content & trust	41	49.5	−8.5

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

Speed & CWV		-28
Technical		+12
Local presence		+12
Visibility		+46
AI search presence		+80
Content & trust		-8.5

Where this firm ranks

Ranks for 12 of 12 keywords, average position 24.8, in the local 3-pack for 0 keywords.

Keyword	Position
architects Exeter	#34
architect Exeter	#21
architectural services Exeter	#24
house extension architect Exeter	#4
planning application architect Exeter	#40
listed building architect Exeter	#34
residential architects Exeter	#29
commercial architects Exeter	#44
self build architect Exeter	#37
loft conversion architect Exeter	#3
barn conversion architect Exeter	#3
conservation architect Exeter	#25

The gap to the leader

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

Speed & CWV		36
Technical		100
Local presence		88
Visibility		50
AI search presence		80
Content & trust		41

this firm sector median leader

ARP Architects Ltd. trails Living Space Architects by 78 points across 4 pillars, but 81% of that is Speed & CWV and AI search presence alone. It already matches or beats the leader on Technical, Local presence.

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

Local presence

Google Business Profile.

Rating	5 / 5
Reviews	9
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.

drawings3
kitchen extension2
home2
bedroom2
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	41	about page: yes · team page: no · credentials: no · blog or news: no · homepage: 1,135 words · last changed: 643 days ago
Visibility	50	ranks for 12 of 12 keywords · average position 24.8 · local 3-pack: 0
Local presence	88	9 reviews · rated 5 · 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

Speed & CWV: 36/100, below the sector median of 64.

How this compares to the leader

Living Space Architects leads the index with 82/100. The largest gaps are: Speed & CWV (36 vs 79); AI search presence (80 vs 100); Content & trust (41 vs 53).

Top fixes (ranked by impact)

Cut mobile LCP below 2.5s (optimise images and remove render-blocking resources) — the biggest score and ranking lever.
Add about/team pages, and refresh stale content.
Build local landing pages for the core keyword basket to lift organic and local-pack appearance.

Firms ranked near this one

The firms nearest ARP Architects Ltd. in this ranking, beyond the two either side.

Firm	Rank	Score	Why it is here
Hilton Barnfield Architects	#4	71/100	2 places above you
MJM Architecture	#8	67/100	2 places below you
New Space Architecture Limited	#3	72/100	3 places above you
ET Architect	#9	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 14196679 · 4.2 years old · active · SIC 71111
Real-user speed (CrUX)	Too little traffic to appear in Chrome’s public dataset
Lighthouse (lab, mobile)	Performance 45 · accessibility 97 · best practices 81 · SEO 100 — biggest losses: Font display; Network dependency tree; Document request latency
Google profile detail	14 photos · claimed · has a description · hours listed · 0 of 9 reviews are one star
Backlinks	68 referring domains · 166 links · rank 92
Site structure	1 pages crawled · 19 internal links per page · reachable in: contact 1 click, about 1 click, services 1 click · 0% of links use a generic anchor · 6 sitemap pages not reachable by following links
Sitemap	7 URLs listed · declared in robots.txt · newest entry 97 days old · 5 of 5 sampled URLs resolve

Where to get this fixed

ARP Architects Ltd.’s lowest-scoring pillars among those we publish remediation guidance for:

Content & trust (41/100) and Visibility (50/100) — read topical authority on how depth and coverage compound into citation-worthiness. Background on analysing these pillars: content & trust, 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.