KTA - Architects in Exeter and Plymouth, Devon — Exeter Architect Digital Visibility Score

Digital Visibility Score: 60 / 100 · Rank 12 of 63

Digital Visibility Score60/100Rank 12 of 63 · top 18%Problems found1The site has not changed in a long time Furthest behind-33.5Content & trust: 16 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	64	64	level
Technical	100	88	+12
Local presence	87	76	+11
Visibility	33	4	+29
AI search presence	20	0	+20
Content & trust	16	49.5	−33.5

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

Speed & CWV		0
Technical		+12
Local presence		+11
Visibility		+29
AI search presence		+20
Content & trust		-33.5

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 4.7 years ago.

Where this firm ranks

Ranks for 8 of 12 keywords, average position 32.9, in the local 3-pack for 0 keywords.

Keyword	Position
architects Exeter	#3
architect Exeter	#40
architectural services Exeter	not in top 100
house extension architect Exeter	#59
planning application architect Exeter	not in top 100
listed building architect Exeter	#36
residential architects Exeter	#7
commercial architects Exeter	#3
self build architect Exeter	not in top 100
loft conversion architect Exeter	#73
barn conversion architect Exeter	#42
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		64
Technical		100
Local presence		87
Visibility		33
AI search presence		20
Content & trust		16

this firm sector median leader

KTA - Architects in Exeter and Plymouth, Devon trails Living Space Architects by 153 points across 5 pillars, but 76% of that is AI search presence and Content & trust alone. It already matches or beats the leader on Technical.

AI search presence

Named in 1 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?	cited by domain
✗	Conservation architects in Exeter

Local presence

Google Business Profile.

Rating	5 / 5
Reviews	8
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.

collaborative experience2
communication2
creativity2
team2
ideas2

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	16	about page: no · team page: no · credentials: no · blog or news: no · homepage: 521 words · last changed: 1698 days ago
Visibility	33	ranks for 8 of 12 keywords · average position 32.9 · local 3-pack: 0
Local presence	87	8 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

Content & trust: 16/100, below the sector median of 49.5.

How this compares to the leader

Living Space Architects leads the index with 82/100. The largest gaps are: AI search presence (20 vs 100); Content & trust (16 vs 53); Visibility (33 vs 53).

Top fixes (ranked by impact)

Add about/team pages, and refresh stale content.
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.

Firms ranked near this one

The firms nearest KTA - Architects in Exeter and Plymouth, Devon in this ranking, beyond the two either side.

Firm	Rank	Score	Why it is here
Poynton Bradbury Architects	#10	61/100	2 places above you
NPS Property Consultants	#14	60/100	2 places below you
ET Architect	#9	61/100	3 places above you
Stephen Varney Associates Architects - Exeter	#15	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 68 · accessibility 80 · best practices 41 · SEO 85 — biggest losses: Links do not have a discernible name; Uses deprecated APIs; Links are not crawlable
Google profile detail	27 photos · claimed · has a description · hours listed · 0 of 8 reviews are one star
Backlinks	18044 referring domains · 37035505 links · rank 632 · 518 broken
Site structure	1 pages crawled · 17 internal links per page · reachable in: contact 1 click · 0% of links use a generic anchor · 34 sitemap pages not reachable by following links
Sitemap	35 URLs listed · declared in robots.txt · newest entry 1079 days old · 5 of 5 sampled URLs resolve

Where to get this fixed

KTA - Architects in Exeter and Plymouth, Devon’s lowest-scoring pillars among those we publish remediation guidance for:

Content & trust (16/100) — read topical authority on how depth and coverage compound into citation-worthiness. Background on analysing this pillar: content & trust.
AI search presence (20/100) — read generative engine optimisation on getting named by the answer engines this pillar measures. Background on analysing this pillar: ai search presence.

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.