Hann Design Studio — Exeter Architect Digital Visibility Score

Digital Visibility Score: 53 / 100 · Rank 28 of 63

Digital Visibility Score53/100Rank 28 of 63 · top 44%Problems found2No structured data on the homepageOne page from the first1Closest: loft conversion architect Exeter at #17Furthest behind-13Technical: 75 against a sector median of 88

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	83	64	+19
Technical	75	88	−13
Local presence	83	76	+7
Visibility	4	4	level
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		+19
Technical		-13
Local presence		+7
Visibility		0
AI search presence		0
Content & trust		-4.5

Problems found

These are specific, checkable faults on the site — not opinions about it.

• Worth fixingNo structured data on the homepageNothing tells a search engine or an assistant what this business is, where it is, or what it does — in machine-readable terms.
• Worth fixingVery little published contentThe homepage carries 130 words and the site links to no blog, news or insights section. There is little here for a search engine to match, or for an assistant to quote.

Where this firm ranks

Ranks for 1 of 12 keywords, average position 17, in the local 3-pack for 0 keywords.

Keyword	Position
architects Exeter	not in top 100
architect Exeter	not in top 100
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	not in top 100
residential architects Exeter	not in top 100
commercial architects Exeter	not in top 100
self build architect Exeter	not in top 100
loft conversion architect Exeter	#17
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		83
Technical		75
Local presence		83
Visibility		4
AI search presence		0
Content & trust		45

this firm sector median leader

Hann Design Studio trails Living Space Architects by 187 points across 5 pillars, but 80% of that is AI search presence and Visibility alone. It already matches or beats the leader on Speed & CWV.

Closest to the first page

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

loft conversion architect Exeter

#17

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	6
Locations	1
Reviews in last 90 days	0
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.

• space4
• liaising with planning staff3
• room3
• budget management2
• light and interesting space2
• good advice2
• patience2

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: yes · blog or news: no · homepage: 130 words
Visibility	4	ranks for 1 of 12 keywords · average position 17 · local 3-pack: 0
Local presence	83	6 reviews · rated 5 · 0 new in 90 days
Technical	75	HTTPS: yes · page allows indexing: yes · robots.txt allows crawling: yes · sitemap: yes · structured data: no

Key findings

• Technical: 75/100, below the sector median of 88.

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 (4 vs 53); Technical (75 vs 100).

Top fixes (ranked by impact)

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

Firms ranked near this one

The firms nearest Hann Design Studio in this ranking, beyond the two either side.

Firm	Rank	Score	Why it is here
BBH Chartered Architects Ltd	#26	54/100	2 places above you
Mark Muir Architect	#30	53/100	2 places below you
Thomas Souster - Architect	#25	55/100	3 places above you
Smithers Purslow	#31	53/100	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 87 · accessibility 98 · best practices 81 · SEO 92 — biggest losses: Avoid multiple page redirects; Network dependency tree; Reduce unused CSS
Google profile detail	4 photos · claimed · no description · hours listed · 0 of 6 reviews are one star
Backlinks	49 referring domains · 54 links · rank 0
Site structure	1 pages crawled · 11 internal links per page · reachable in: contact 1 click, about 1 click · 0% of links use a generic anchor · 11 sitemap pages not reachable by following links
Sitemap	12 URLs listed · declared in robots.txt · newest entry 2526 days old · 5 of 5 sampled URLs resolve

Where to get this fixed

Hann Design Studio’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 (4/100) — read topical authority on why ranking breadth across a sector beats chasing single terms. Background on analysing this pillar: visibility.

↑ Ranked aboveGroup Emmett Design Architects#27 · 53/100 Full indexAll 63 firms ↓ Ranked belowL+ Architects#29 · 53/100

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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.