Co Create Architects - RIBA Chartered Architects Exeter — Exeter Architect Digital Visibility Score

Digital Visibility Score: 69 / 100 · Rank 5 of 63

Digital Visibility Score69/100Rank 5 of 63 · top 6%Problems found1The site has not changed in a long time One page from the first4Closest: residential architects Exeter at #12 Furthest behind-8Speed & CWV: 56 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	56	64	−8
Technical	100	88	+12
Local presence	98	76	+22
Visibility	45	4	+41
AI search presence	40	0	+40
Content & trust	53	49.5	+3.5

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

Speed & CWV		-8
Technical		+12
Local presence		+22
Visibility		+41
AI search presence		+40
Content & trust		+3.5

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 5.1 years ago.

Where this firm ranks

Ranks for 10 of 12 keywords, average position 29.2, in the local 3-pack for 2 keywords.

Keyword	Position
architects Exeter	#18
architect Exeter	#15
architectural services Exeter	#25
house extension architect Exeter	not in top 100
planning application architect Exeter	#33
listed building architect Exeter	#44
residential architects Exeter	#12
commercial architects Exeter	#10
self build architect Exeter	#74
loft conversion architect Exeter	not in top 100
barn conversion architect Exeter	#18
conservation architect Exeter	#43

The gap to the leader

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

Speed & CWV		56
Technical		100
Local presence		98
Visibility		45
AI search presence		40
Content & trust		53

this firm sector median leader

Co Create Architects - RIBA Chartered Architects Exeter trails Living Space Architects by 91 points across 3 pillars, but 91% of that is AI search presence and Speed & CWV alone. It already matches or beats the leader on Technical, Local presence, Content & trust.

Closest to the first page

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

residential architects Exeter		#12
architect Exeter		#15
architects Exeter		#18
barn conversion architect Exeter		#18

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

AI search presence

Named in 2 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?
✗	Top rated architectural practices in Exeter
✓	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	70
Locations	1
Reviews in last 90 days	3
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.

drawings9
new home5
extension design4
listening to requests3
clear plans2
modern style2
guided process2
bungalow2
1950s2
friendly team2

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	53	about page: yes · team page: no · credentials: yes · blog or news: no · homepage: 1,720 words · last changed: 1852 days ago
Visibility	45	ranks for 10 of 12 keywords · average position 29.2 · local 3-pack: 2
Local presence	98	70 reviews · rated 5 · 3 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 (40 vs 100); Speed & CWV (56 vs 79).

Top fixes (ranked by impact)

Publish structured, citable content and entity schema so AI engines surface the business for core local queries.
Build local landing pages for the core keyword basket to lift organic and local-pack appearance.
Add about/team pages, and refresh stale content.

Firms ranked near this one

The firms nearest Co Create Architects - RIBA Chartered Architects Exeter in this ranking, beyond the two either side.

Firm	Rank	Score	Why it is here
New Space Architecture Limited	#3	72/100	2 places above you
Barc Architects	#7	67/100	2 places below you
Tom Spriggs Architect	#2	81/100	3 places above you
MJM Architecture	#8	67/100	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 66 · accessibility 89 · best practices 78 · SEO 100 — biggest losses: Forced reflow; Document request latency; Browser errors were logged to the console
Google profile detail	165 photos · claimed · has a description · hours listed · 0 of 70 reviews are one star
Backlinks	61 referring domains · 346 links · rank 125
Site structure	1 pages crawled · 48 internal links per page · reachable in: contact 1 click, about 1 click · 2% of links use a generic anchor · 87 sitemap pages not reachable by following links
Sitemap	87 URLs listed · declared in robots.txt · newest entry 6 days old · 5 of 5 sampled URLs resolve

Where to get this fixed

Co Create Architects - RIBA Chartered Architects Exeter’s lowest-scoring pillars among those we publish remediation guidance for:

AI search presence (40/100) — read generative engine optimisation on getting named by the answer engines this pillar measures. Background on analysing this pillar: ai search presence.
Visibility (45/100) — read topical authority on why ranking breadth across a sector beats chasing single terms. Background on analysing this pillar: 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.