Hucclecote Accountancy Practice — Gloucester Accountant Digital Visibility Score

Digital Visibility Score: 49 / 100 · Rank 28 of 41

Digital Visibility Score49/100Rank 28 of 41 Critical problem1Search engines are being told not to index this site Furthest behind-25Technical: 50 against a sector median of 75

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	78	65.5	+12.5
Technical	50	75	−25
Local presence	87	79	+8
Visibility	5	13	−8
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		+12.5
Technical		-25
Local presence		+8
Visibility		-8
AI search presence		0
Content & trust		not measured

Problems found

1 critical problem found. These are specific, checkable faults on the site — not opinions about it.

CriticalSearch engines are being told not to index this siteThe site’s own robots.txt disallows crawling. Until that changes, nothing else on this page can help — the pages cannot enter the index in the first place.
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 3 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		50
Local presence		87
Visibility		5
AI search presence		0

this firm sector median leader

Hucclecote Accountancy Practice trails Griffiths Marshall by 143 points across 3 pillars, but 73% 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	4.9 / 5
Reviews	28
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.

advice4
number4
efficiency3
reliability3
tax explanation2
prompt responses2
business accounting2
easy to work with2
helpful2

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	5	ranks for 0 of 12 keywords · local 3-pack: 3
Local presence	87	28 reviews · rated 4.9 · 0 new in 90 days
Technical	50	HTTPS: yes · page allows indexing: — · robots.txt allows crawling: no · sitemap: no · structured data: —

Key findings

Technical: 50/100, below the sector median of 75.

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 (5 vs 50); Technical (50 vs 88).

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 valid LocalBusiness schema, fix indexability, and ensure a fresh XML sitemap is referenced in robots.txt.

Firms ranked near this one

The firms nearest Hucclecote Accountancy Practice in this ranking, beyond the two either side.

Firm	Rank	Score	Why it is here
B Digital Accounts	#26	49/100	2 places above you
AGR Accounts Ltd	#30	47/100	2 places below you
PCD Accountancy Limited	#25	51/100	3 places above you
Accountrix	#31	46/100	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 71 · accessibility 100 · best practices 78 · SEO 58 — biggest losses: Browser errors were logged to the console; Does not use HTTPS; Network dependency tree
Google profile detail	1 photo · unclaimed · no description · hours listed · 0 of 28 reviews are one star
Backlinks	48 referring domains · 49 links · rank 0

Where to get this fixed

Hucclecote Accountancy Practice’s lowest-scoring pillars among those we publish remediation guidance for:

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.
Visibility (5/100) — 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.