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Barc Architects — Exeter Architect Digital Visibility Score

Digital Visibility Score: 67 / 100 · Rank 7 of 63

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.

Each pillar scored 0–100 against the sector median for this index. The final column is this firm's distance from that median.
PillarScoreMedianvs median
Speed & CWV6464level
Technical8888level
Local presence8676+10
Visibility544+50
AI search presence400+40
Content & trust5349.5+3.5
Pillar performance against the sector median. Bars right of centre are above the median, left are below.
Speed & CWV0
Technical0
Local presence+10
Visibility+50
AI search presence+40
Content & trust+3.5
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.
Ranks for 9 of 12 keywords, average position 12.6, in the local 3-pack for 10 keywords.
KeywordPosition
architects Exeter#4
architect Exeter#4
architectural services Exeter#11
house extension architect Exeter#24
planning application architect Exeternot in top 100
listed building architect Exeter#17
residential architects Exeter#3
commercial architects Exeter#2
self build architect Exeter#8
loft conversion architect Exeternot in top 100
barn conversion architect Exeter#40
conservation architect Exeternot in top 100
This firm against the sector median and the index leader, Living Space Architects, on every pillar.
Speed & CWV64
Technical88
Local presence86
Visibility54
AI search presence40
Content & trust53

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.

Ranked between #11 and #20 — one page from the first, ordered by how close.
architectural services Exeter#11
listed building architect Exeter#17

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

Named in 2 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 Exeternamed
I need an architect in Exeter - who should I contact?cited by domain
Conservation architects in Exeter
Google Business Profile.
Rating5 / 5
Reviews7
Locations1
Reviews in last 90 days3
Address matches websiteyes
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.
  • modernity3
  • home3
  • building3
  • technical design2
  • interior design2
  • aesthetic2
  • led2
  • managing2
  • garden2
  • meetings2
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.
PillarScoreMade up of
Content & trust53about page: yes · team page: no · credentials: no · blog or news: yes · homepage: 960 words · last changed: 1523 days ago
Visibility54ranks for 9 of 12 keywords · average position 12.6 · local 3-pack: 10
Local presence867 reviews · rated 5 · 3 new in 90 days
Technical88HTTPS: yes · page allows indexing: yes · robots.txt allows crawling: no · sitemap: yes · structured data: yes
  • No pillar falls materially below the sector median this quarter.

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).

  1. Publish structured, citable content and entity schema so AI engines surface the business for core local queries.
  2. Add about/team pages, and refresh stale content.
  3. Build local landing pages for the core keyword basket to lift organic and local-pack appearance.
The firms nearest Barc Architects in this ranking, beyond the two either side.
FirmRankScoreWhy it is here
Co Create Architects - RIBA Chartered Architects Exeter#569/1002 places above you
ET Architect#961/1002 places below you
Hilton Barnfield Architects#471/1003 places above you
Poynton Bradbury Architects#1061/1003 places below you
Recorded alongside the measurement to make it easier to judge, but carrying no weight in the Digital Visibility Score. See the methodology.
Companies HouseCompany 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 detail91 photos · claimed · has a description · hours listed · 0 of 7 reviews are one star
Backlinks138 referring domains · 232 links · rank 131
Site structure1 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
Sitemap12 URLs listed · not declared in robots.txt · newest entry 21 days old · 5 of 5 sampled URLs resolve

Barc Architects’s lowest-scoring pillars among those we publish remediation guidance for:


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.