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.
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 knowingThe site has not changed in a long timeThe homepage last reported a change 4.2 years ago.
This firm against the sector median and the index leader, Living Space Architects, on every pillar.
Speed & CWV
64
Technical
88
Local presence
86
Visibility
54
AI search presence
40
Content & trust
53
this firm sector median leader
Barc Architects trails Living Space Architects by 89 points across 4 pillars, but 84% of that is AI search presence and Speed & CWV alone. It already matches or beats the leader on Visibility, Content & trust.
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.
Living Space Architects leads the index with 82/100. The largest gaps are: AI search presence (40 vs 100); Speed & CWV (64 vs 79); Technical (88 vs 100).
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 08179187 · 14 years old · active · SIC 71111
Real-user speed (CrUX)
Too little traffic to appear in Chrome’s public dataset
Lighthouse (lab, mobile)
Performance 59 · accessibility 89 · best practices 81 · SEO 100 — biggest losses: Links do not have a discernible name; Network dependency tree; Background and foreground colors do not have a sufficient contrast ratio.
Google profile detail
91 photos · claimed · has a description · hours listed · 0 of 7 reviews are one star
Backlinks
138 referring domains · 232 links · rank 131
Site structure
1 pages crawled · 91 internal links per page · reachable in: contact 1 click, about 1 click · 0% of links use a generic anchor · 12 sitemap pages not reachable by following links
Sitemap
12 URLs listed · not declared in robots.txt · newest entry 21 days old · 5 of 5 sampled URLs resolve
Content & trust (53/100) — read topical authority on how depth and coverage compound into citation-worthiness. Background on analysing this pillar: content & trust.