ET Architect — Exeter Architect Digital Visibility Score

Digital Visibility Score: 61 / 100 · Rank 9 of 63

Digital Visibility Score61/100Rank 9 of 63 · top 13%Problems found1The site has not changed in a long time One page from the first1Closest: loft conversion architect Exeter at #19 Furthest behind-4.5Content & trust: 45 against a sector median of 49.5

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	85	64	+21
Technical	100	88	+12
Local presence	81	76	+5
Visibility	25	4	+21
AI search presence	0	0	level
Content & trust	45	49.5	−4.5

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

Speed & CWV		+21
Technical		+12
Local presence		+5
Visibility		+21
AI search presence		0
Content & trust		-4.5

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 2.4 years ago.

Where this firm ranks

Ranks for 6 of 12 keywords, average position 35.7, in the local 3-pack for 0 keywords.

Keyword	Position
architects Exeter	#31
architect Exeter	#24
architectural services Exeter	not in top 100
house extension architect Exeter	not in top 100
planning application architect Exeter	not in top 100
listed building architect Exeter	#68
residential architects Exeter	#24
commercial architects Exeter	#48
self build architect Exeter	not in top 100
loft conversion architect Exeter	#19
barn conversion architect Exeter	not in top 100
conservation architect Exeter	not in top 100

The gap to the leader

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

Speed & CWV		85
Technical		100
Local presence		81
Visibility		25
AI search presence		0
Content & trust		45

this firm sector median leader

ET Architect trails Living Space Architects by 143 points across 4 pillars, but 90% of that is AI search presence and Visibility alone. It already matches or beats the leader on Speed & CWV, Technical.

Closest to the first page

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

loft conversion architect Exeter

#19

1 position sits between #11 and #20 — one page away, and the cheapest ranking work available to this firm.

AI search presence

Named in 0 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 Exeter
✗	I need an architect in Exeter - who should I contact?
✗	Conservation architects in Exeter

Local presence

Google Business Profile.

Rating	5 / 5
Reviews	2
Locations	1
Reviews in last 90 days	0
Address matches website	yes

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	45	about page: yes · team page: no · credentials: no · blog or news: yes · homepage: 310 words · last changed: 862 days ago
Visibility	25	ranks for 6 of 12 keywords · average position 35.7 · local 3-pack: 0
Local presence	81	2 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

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 (0 vs 100); Visibility (25 vs 53).

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 ET Architect in this ranking, beyond the two either side.

Firm	Rank	Score	Why it is here
Barc Architects	#7	67/100	2 places above you
Gray + Gray architects	#11	60/100	2 places below you
ARP Architects Ltd.	#6	68/100	3 places above you
KTA - Architects in Exeter and Plymouth, Devon	#12	60/100	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 90 · accessibility 100 · best practices 100 · SEO 100 — biggest losses: Font display; Render-blocking requests; Use efficient cache lifetimes
Google profile detail	4 photos · claimed · has a description · hours listed
Backlinks	41 referring domains · 43 links · rank 0
Site structure	15 pages crawled · 13.9 internal links per page · reachable in: contact 1 click, about 1 click · 1% of links use a generic anchor · 0 sitemap pages not reachable by following links
Sitemap	4 URLs listed · not declared in robots.txt · newest entry 252 days old · 4 of 4 sampled URLs resolve

Where to get this fixed

ET Architect’s lowest-scoring pillars among those we publish remediation guidance for:

AI search presence (0/100) — read generative engine optimisation on getting named by the answer engines this pillar measures. Background on analysing this pillar: ai search presence.
Visibility (25/100) — 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.