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 fixingStructured data present, but no LocalBusiness markupThe page describes something to machines, but not that it is a local business with an address and opening hours.
Worth knowingThe site has not changed in a long timeThe homepage last reported a change 12.4 years ago.
This firm against the sector median and the index leader, Living Space Architects, on every pillar.
Speed & CWV
80
Technical
75
Local presence
71
Visibility
0
AI search presence
0
Content & trust
45
this firm sector median leader
Design Engine Architects trails Living Space Architects by 203 points across 5 pillars, but 75% of that is AI search presence and Visibility alone. It already matches or beats the leader on Speed & CWV.
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)
LCP 1694ms · CLS 0 · passes Core Web Vitals
Lighthouse (lab, mobile)
Performance 60 · accessibility 94 · best practices 96 · SEO 100 — biggest losses: Largest Contentful Paint; Browser errors were logged to the console; Improve image delivery
Google profile detail
11 photos · claimed · has a description · hours listed
Design Engine Architects’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.