Harper Sheldon — Gloucester Accountant Digital Visibility Score

Digital Visibility Score: 56 / 100 · Rank 18 of 41

Digital Visibility Score56/100Rank 18 of 41 · top 43%Problems found1No XML sitemap foundFurthest behind-13Visibility: 0 against a sector median of 13

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.

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	99	65.5	+33.5
Technical	75	75	level
Local presence	79	79	level
Visibility	0	13	−13
AI search presence	0	0	level
Content & trust	—	54	not measured

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

Speed & CWV		+33.5
Technical		0
Local presence		0
Visibility		-13
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
accountants Gloucester	not in top 100
chartered accountants Gloucester	not in top 100
best accountants Gloucester	not in top 100
small business accountant Gloucester	not in top 100
tax advisor Gloucester	not in top 100
bookkeeping Gloucester	not in top 100
self assessment help Gloucester	not in top 100
company accounts Gloucester	not in top 100
payroll services Gloucester	not in top 100
accountants Quedgeley	not in top 100
accountants Hucclecote	not in top 100
bookkeeping Quedgeley	not in top 100

The gap to the leader

This firm against the sector median and the index leader, Griffiths Marshall, on every pillar.

Technical		75
Local presence		79
Visibility		0
AI search presence		0

this firm sector median leader

Harper Sheldon trails Griffiths Marshall by 123 points across 3 pillars, but 89% of that is AI search presence and Visibility alone. It already matches or beats the leader on Local presence.

AI search presence

Named in 0 of 5 AI answers. A domain citation is stronger evidence than a name mention.

✗	Who are the best accountants in Gloucester?
✗	Which accountant in Gloucester would you recommend for a small business?
✗	Top rated chartered accountants in Gloucester
✗	I need an accountant in Gloucester - who should I contact?
✗	Best accountants in Quedgeley, Gloucester

Local presence

Google Business Profile.

Rating	5 / 5
Reviews	1
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	79	1 reviews · rated 5 · 0 new in 90 days
Technical	75	HTTPS: yes · page allows indexing: — · robots.txt allows crawling: yes · sitemap: no · structured data: —

Key findings

• Visibility: 0/100, below the sector median of 13.

How this compares to the leader

Griffiths Marshall leads the index with 73/100. The largest gaps are: AI search presence (0 vs 60); Visibility (0 vs 50); Technical (75 vs 88).

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 Harper Sheldon in this ranking, beyond the two either side.

Firm	Rank	Score	Why it is here
Clarke & Co.	#16	57/100	2 places above you
Gloucester Cloud Accountants	#20	53/100	2 places below you
PBT Accountancy Limited	#15	59/100	3 places above you
MBS Accountants	#21	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	Company 04329107 · 24.8 years old · active · SIC 69201, 69203
Real-user speed (CrUX)	Too little traffic to appear in Chrome’s public dataset
Lighthouse (lab, mobile)	Performance 98 · accessibility 96 · best practices 74 · SEO 82 — biggest losses: Document request latency; Page has unsuccessful HTTP status code; Document does not have a main landmark.
Google profile detail	5 photos · claimed · has a description · hours listed
Backlinks	58 referring domains · 101 links · rank 101

Where to get this fixed

Harper Sheldon’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 aboveBrothertons#17 · 56/100 Full indexAll 41 firms ↓ Ranked belowAbaqus#19 · 55/100

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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.