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APS Accounting — Gloucester Accountant Digital Visibility Score

Digital Visibility Score: 67 / 100 · Rank 3 of 41

Measured 29 August 2026 via the PYC Gloucester Accountant Digital Visibility Index. Every figure is objective and reproducible from the methodology. Spotted an error? Request a correction.

Each pillar scored 0–100 against the sector median for this index. The final column is this firm's distance from that median.
PillarScoreMedianvs median
Speed & CWV6565.5−0.5
Technical7575level
Local presence8879+9
Visibility2813+15
AI search presence800+80
Content & trust5454level
Pillar performance against the sector median. Bars right of centre are above the median, left are below.
Speed & CWV-0.5
Technical0
Local presence+9
Visibility+15
AI search presence+80
Content & trust0
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 303 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.
Ranks for 6 of 12 keywords, average position 18.5, in the local 3-pack for 2 keywords.
KeywordPosition
accountants Gloucester#18
chartered accountants Gloucester#14
best accountants Gloucester#16
small business accountant Gloucester#16
tax advisor Gloucesternot in top 100
bookkeeping Gloucesternot in top 100
self assessment help Gloucesternot in top 100
company accounts Gloucester#20
payroll services Gloucesternot in top 100
accountants Quedgeleynot in top 100
accountants Hucclecote#27
bookkeeping Quedgeleynot in top 100
This firm against the sector median and the index leader, Griffiths Marshall, on every pillar.
Technical75
Local presence88
Visibility28
AI search presence80
Content & trust54

this firm sector median leader

APS Accounting trails Griffiths Marshall by 81 points across 3 pillars, but 84% of that is Content & trust and Visibility alone. It already matches or beats the leader on Local presence, AI search presence.

Ranked between #11 and #20 — one page from the first, ordered by how close.
chartered accountants Gloucester#14
best accountants Gloucester#16
small business accountant Gloucester#16
accountants Gloucester#18
company accounts Gloucester#20

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

Named in 4 of 5 AI answers. A domain citation is stronger evidence than a name mention.
Who are the best accountants in Gloucester?cited by domain
Which accountant in Gloucester would you recommend for a small business?cited by domain
Top rated chartered accountants in Gloucestercited by domain
I need an accountant in Gloucester - who should I contact?cited by domain
Best accountants in Quedgeley, Gloucester
Google Business Profile.
Rating5 / 5
Reviews16
Locations1
Reviews in last 90 days0
Address matches websiteyes
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.
  • helpful staff8
  • friendly accountant3
  • easy to work with2
  • reasonable rates2
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.
PillarScoreMade up of
Content & trust54about page: yes · team page: no · credentials: yes · blog or news: no · homepage: 303 words · last changed: 100 days ago
Visibility28ranks for 6 of 12 keywords · average position 18.5 · local 3-pack: 2
Local presence8816 reviews · rated 5 · 0 new in 90 days
Technical75HTTPS: yes · page allows indexing: yes · robots.txt allows crawling: yes · sitemap: yes · structured data: no
  • No pillar falls materially below the sector median this quarter.

Griffiths Marshall leads the index with 73/100. The largest gaps are: Content & trust (54 vs 100); Visibility (28 vs 50); Technical (75 vs 88).

  1. Build local landing pages for the core keyword basket to lift organic and local-pack appearance.
  2. Add about/team pages, and refresh stale content.
  3. Cut mobile LCP below 2.5s (optimise images and remove render-blocking resources) — the biggest score and ranking lever.
The firms nearest APS Accounting in this ranking, beyond the two either side.
FirmRankScoreWhy it is here
Griffiths Marshall#173/1002 places above you
Pitt Godden & Taylor LLP#565/1002 places below you
Randall & Payne LLP#665/1003 places below you
Reed & Co Accountants#765/1004 places below you
Recorded alongside the measurement to make it easier to judge, but carrying no weight in the Digital Visibility Score. See the methodology.
Companies HouseNo confident match on the registered name
Real-user speed (CrUX)Too little traffic to appear in Chrome’s public dataset
Lighthouse (lab, mobile)Performance 69 · accessibility 63 · best practices 70 · SEO 100 — biggest losses: Document does not have a main landmark.; Use efficient cache lifetimes; Serves images with low resolution
Google profile detail8 photos · claimed · no description · hours listed · 0 of 16 reviews are one star
Backlinks81 referring domains · 111 links · rank 89
Site structure1 pages crawled · 13 internal links per page · reachable in: contact 1 click, about 1 click, services 1 click · 0% of links use a generic anchor · 6 sitemap pages not reachable by following links
Sitemap7 URLs listed

APS Accounting’s lowest-scoring pillars among those we publish remediation guidance for:

  • Visibility (28/100) and Content & trust (54/100) — read topical authority on why ranking breadth across a sector beats chasing single terms. Background on analysing these pillars: visibility, content & trust.

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.