Maria Escribano Architects Ltd — Exeter Architect Digital Visibility Score

Digital Visibility Score: 57 / 100 · Rank 19 of 63

Digital Visibility Score57/100Rank 19 of 63 · top 29%Problems found2No structured data on the homepage One page from the first2Closest: residential architects Exeter at #11 Furthest 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	65	64	+1
Technical	75	88	−13
Local presence	86	76	+10
Visibility	21	4	+17
AI search presence	20	0	+20
Content & trust	58	49.5	+8.5

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

Speed & CWV		+1
Technical		-13
Local presence		+10
Visibility		+17
AI search presence		+20
Content & trust		+8.5

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 276 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 5 of 12 keywords, average position 31.8, in the local 3-pack for 0 keywords.

Keyword	Position
architects Exeter	#16
architect Exeter	#7
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	#11
commercial architects Exeter	not in top 100
self build architect Exeter	#52
loft conversion architect Exeter	not in top 100
barn conversion architect Exeter	#73
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		65
Technical		75
Local presence		86
Visibility		21
AI search presence		20
Content & trust		58

this firm sector median leader

Maria Escribano Architects Ltd trails Living Space Architects by 153 points across 5 pillars, but 73% of that is AI search presence and Visibility alone. It already matches or beats the leader on Content & trust.

Closest to the first page

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

residential architects Exeter		#11
architects Exeter		#16

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

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?
✓	Conservation architects in Exeter	cited by domain

Local presence

Google Business Profile.

Rating	4.6 / 5
Reviews	11
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.

project management6
planning process4
tendering stages3
quality of work3
home building & renovations3
build management2
garden2
attention to detail2
high standards2
approachable2

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	58	about page: yes · team page: no · credentials: yes · blog or news: no · homepage: 276 words · last changed: 25 days ago
Visibility	21	ranks for 5 of 12 keywords · average position 31.8 · local 3-pack: 0
Local presence	86	11 reviews · rated 4.6 · 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 (20 vs 100); Visibility (21 vs 53); Technical (75 vs 100).

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 Maria Escribano Architects Ltd in this ranking, beyond the two either side.

Firm	Rank	Score	Why it is here
PMR Architecture	#17	59/100	2 places above you
Grainge Architects	#21	56/100	2 places below you
GJR Architects Ltd	#16	59/100	3 places above you
Axiom Architects	#22	55/100	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	Company 12451232 · 6.6 years old · active · SIC 71111
Real-user speed (CrUX)	Too little traffic to appear in Chrome’s public dataset
Lighthouse (lab, mobile)	Performance 72 · accessibility 87 · best practices 78 · SEO 100 — biggest losses: Largest Contentful Paint; Serves images with low resolution; Document request latency
Google profile detail	26 photos · claimed · has a description · hours listed · 1 of 11 reviews are one star
Backlinks	47 referring domains · 71 links · rank 4
Site structure	1 pages crawled · 21 internal links per page · reachable in: about 1 click, services 1 click · 0% of links use a generic anchor · 5 sitemap pages not reachable by following links
Sitemap	6 URLs listed · declared in robots.txt · newest entry 536 days old · 5 of 5 sampled URLs resolve

Where to get this fixed

Maria Escribano Architects Ltd’s lowest-scoring pillars among those we publish remediation guidance for:

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.
Visibility (21/100) — 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.