TFQ Architects — Exeter Architect Digital Visibility Score

Digital Visibility Score: 43 / 100 · Rank 55 of 63

Digital Visibility Score43/100Rank 55 of 63Problems found1No XML sitemap foundFurthest behind-55Technical: 33 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	84	64	+20
Technical	33	88	−55
Local presence	77	76	+1
Visibility	0	4	−4
AI search presence	0	0	level
Content & trust	—	49.5	not measured

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

Speed & CWV		+20
Technical		-55
Local presence		+1
Visibility		-4
AI search presence		0
Content & trust		not measured

Problems found

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

• Worth fixingNo XML sitemap foundSearch engines have to discover every page by following links. On a small site that is survivable; on a large one it is not.

Where this firm ranks

Ranks for 0 of 12 keywords, 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	not in top 100
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		84
Technical		33
Local presence		77
Visibility		0
AI search presence		0

this firm sector median leader

TFQ Architects trails Living Space Architects by 231 points across 4 pillars, but 72% of that is AI search presence and Technical alone. It already matches or beats the leader on Speed & CWV.

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	4 / 5
Reviews	5
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
Visibility	0	ranks for 0 of 12 keywords · local 3-pack: 0
Local presence	77	5 reviews · rated 4 · 0 new in 90 days
Technical	33	HTTPS: yes · page allows indexing: — · robots.txt allows crawling: — · sitemap: no · structured data: —

Key findings

• Technical: 33/100, 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); Technical (33 vs 100); Visibility (0 vs 53).

Top fixes (ranked by impact)

1. Build local landing pages for the core keyword basket to lift organic and local-pack appearance.
2. Publish structured, citable content and entity schema so AI engines surface the business for core local queries.
3. Add valid LocalBusiness schema, fix indexability, and ensure a fresh XML sitemap is referenced in robots.txt.

Firms ranked near this one

The firms nearest TFQ Architects in this ranking, beyond the two either side.

Firm	Rank	Score	Why it is here
Pea Green Studio Ltd - Commercial & Residential Interiors	#53	43/100	2 places above you
Robinson Jary Architecture	#57	42/100	2 places below you
Project Services Limited	#52	44/100	3 places above you
Croft Surveyors	#58	41/100	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 82 · accessibility 94 · best practices 78 · SEO 40 — biggest losses: Page has unsuccessful HTTP status code; Render-blocking requests; Does not use HTTPS
Google profile detail	1 photo · unclaimed · no description · no hours listed · 1 of 5 reviews are one star
Backlinks	56 referring domains · 80 links · rank 105 · 84 broken
Site structure	Not crawled — homepage HTTP 404

Where to get this fixed

TFQ 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.
• 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.

↑ Ranked aboveStudioExe Architects#54 · 43/100 Full indexAll 63 firms ↓ Ranked belowBarrie Simons & Associates#56 · 42/100

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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.