Gloucester Architect Digital Visibility Index — Q3-2026

Not every firm could be measured on every pillar (Q3-2026)

7 of the firms below are missing at least one pillar: Speed & CWV (32 of 35), Content & trust (28 of 35). Where a pillar could not be measured for a firm it is excluded from that firm’s score and its remaining weights are renormalised, rather than scored zero — so those firms are ranked on less evidence than the rest, and their position should be read with that in mind. Affected: Extension Architecture Gloucester - Extension Plans & Design, Potter Church & Holmes, Richard Falconer Architect, RM Architectural Services, blueprint, Evolve Building Solutions Ltd, James Taylor Visualisations. See the methodology.

The PYC Gloucester Architect Digital Visibility Index ranks 35 gloucester architects on how well they perform online — website speed, technical SEO, local presence, search visibility, AI search presence and content & trust — each scored 0–100 to a single Digital Visibility Score. Measured 1 September 2026 to the published methodology.

As of Q3-2026, 6% of the 32 gloucester architects measured on Speed & Core Web Vitals score below 50 on mobile (PYC Gloucester Architect Digital Visibility Index, measured 1 September 2026).

Who owns the first page

Across 12 keywords there are 120 first-page organic slots. The firms in this index hold 39 of them (32.5%); 97 distinct domains appear in total.

this index (39)   directories, national chains and firms not indexed (81)

Ranking well but not currently indexed:

• checkatrade.com — 7 top-10 slots, best #1
• aurahomes.co.uk — 7 top-10 slots, best #3
• grayarchitecture.co.uk — 5 top-10 slots, best #4
• apexarchitectureltd.com — 3 top-10 slots, best #2
• ce-architects.co.uk — 3 top-10 slots, best #4

67.5% of the first page belongs to businesses outside this index — directories, national chains and local firms not tracked here. These firms are not mainly competing with each other.

The league table

#	Gloucester Architect	Score	Spd	Tech	Local	Vis	AI	Cont
1	CK Architectural Gloucestershire	79	62	100	67	76	100	70
2	Quattro Design Architects Ltd	73	85	88	85	37	60	70
3	PSK Architect	71	51	100	88	56	60	53
4	RE-Design Architects	64	73	100	88	42	0	53
5	CMS Group	63	60	100	67	17	40	87
6	Roberts Limbrick Ltd	63	64	75	84	45	20	83
7	Pier Architects Ltd.	60	78	75	88	33	0	70
8	The Development Studio (TDS)	60	70	100	67	29	0	83
9	A1 Architecture Ltd	59	62	100	63	50	0	66
10	Homeplan Drafting Services	59	79	88	80	41	0	33
11	SMAC Architecture	58	87	75	88	45	0	10
12	Aston Architectural Design Ltd.	55	67	75	93	38	0	20
13	Francesco Pierazzi Architects	53	65	100	56	0	0	83
14	GSSArchitecture	52	76	75	59	0	0	100
15	Cotswold Architecture + Design | Contemporary Architecture & Extension Specialists	51	65	75	90	0	0	45
16	Joanna James Ltd	50	84	88	63	0	0	33
17	Cheltenham CAD Services Ltd T/A Hoch Bau Architecture + Engineering	49	64	75	79	0	0	50
18	Port Architects Limited	49	99	50	79	8	0	20
19	Stantec	48	62	88	78	0	0	20
20	Extension Architecture Gloucester - Extension Plans & Design	46	71	75	59	2	0	—
21	Forde Architecture	46	59	88	59	0	0	45
22	Border Consultancy Chartered Surveyors Ltd	45	62	75	63	0	0	50
23	Ceri ap Dafydd Architect	45	65	88	67	0	0	10
24	Manifest Design Workshop Ltd	44	36	75	67	0	20	50
25	Clancy Design Services	42	63	75	63	0	0	20
26	Potter Church & Holmes	42	70	0	59	0	80	—
27	Peter A Marshall Architect Limited	40	57	50	76	4	0	30
28	D 2 B Designs	38	100	14	76	0	0	3
29	Morgan Barnfield Construction	38	45	50	78	0	0	35
30	Richard Falconer Architect	36	100	0	63	0	0	—
31	Conault Design	35	99	14	59	0	0	3
32	RM Architectural Services	35	99	0	59	0	0	—
33	blueprint	23	—	0	79	0	0	—
34	Evolve Building Solutions Ltd	18	—	0	63	0	0	—
35	James Taylor Visualisations	17	—	0	59	0	0	—

Which keywords are contested, and which are open?

Every firm against every keyword, shaded by position. Darker is stronger; blank means outside the top 100. Read down a column for a contested term, across a row for a firm's reach.

	architects	architect	architectural services	house extension architect	planning application archit…	listed building architect	residential architects	commercial architects	self build architect	loft conversion architect	barn conversion architect	conservation architect
CK Architectural Gloucestershire	4	1	1	2	2	6	2	1	2	1	1	3
Quattro Design Architects Ltd	2	5	28		43		5	13
PSK Architect	3	3	4	1	5		1	3	6
RE-Design Architects	31	23	12	20	10	60	35	28	28			32
CMS Group	27				65			14				55
Roberts Limbrick Ltd	1	2
Pier Architects Ltd.	24	25	20		63	75	37	5				69
The Development Studio (TDS)	10	9	9		31		26	2		60
A1 Architecture Ltd	26	18	34	18	11	66	23	24	37	2	63	61
Homeplan Drafting Services	35	30	5	6	6		25		5	48	72
SMAC Architecture	51	40	58				68	39	77
Aston Architectural Design Ltd.	49	32	66		83		61		81
Francesco Pierazzi Architects
GSSArchitecture
Cotswold Architecture + Design | Contemporary Architecture & Extension Specialists
Joanna James Ltd
Cheltenham CAD Services Ltd T/A Hoch Bau Architecture + Engineering
Port Architects Limited						52		49
Stantec
Extension Architecture Gloucester - Extension Plans & Design
Forde Architecture
Border Consultancy Chartered Surveyors Ltd
Ceri ap Dafydd Architect
Manifest Design Workshop Ltd
Clancy Design Services
Potter Church & Holmes
Peter A Marshall Architect Limited												67
D 2 B Designs
Morgan Barnfield Construction
Richard Falconer Architect
Conault Design
RM Architectural Services
blueprint
Evolve Building Solutions Ltd
James Taylor Visualisations

1–3 4–10 11–20 21+ absent

Where each firm is visible

Where each firm is visible: ranked in the organic top 10 for at least one keyword, present in the local 3-pack, or named in at least one AI answer. 2 of 35 appear in all three.

Visible in	Firms	Which
All three channels	2	Quattro Design Architects Ltd, Roberts Limbrick Ltd
Organic + local pack	1	Homeplan Drafting Services
Organic + AI	2	CK Architectural Gloucestershire, PSK Architect
Local pack + AI	0	—
Organic only	4	RE-Design Architects, Pier Architects Ltd., The Development Studio (TDS), A1 Architecture Ltd
Local pack only	3	SMAC Architecture, Aston Architectural Design Ltd., Extension Architecture Gloucester - Extension Plans & Design
AI only	3	CMS Group, Manifest Design Workshop Ltd, Potter Church & Holmes
None of the three	20	Francesco Pierazzi Architects, GSSArchitecture, Cotswold Architecture + Design | Contemporary Architecture & Extension Specialists, Joanna James Ltd, Cheltenham CAD Services Ltd T/A Hoch Bau Architecture + Engineering, Port Architects Limited, Stantec, Forde Architecture, Border Consultancy Chartered Surveyors Ltd, Ceri ap Dafydd Architect, Clancy Design Services, Peter A Marshall Architect Limited, D 2 B Designs, Morgan Barnfield Construction, Richard Falconer Architect, Conault Design, RM Architectural Services, blueprint, Evolve Building Solutions Ltd, James Taylor Visualisations

2 of 35 firms are visible in all three channels. 20 appear in none of them.

Search visibility against AI presence

Search visibility against AI search presence. The dashed diagonal is parity; a firm far from it is strong in one channel and weak in the other.

horizontal: search visibility →   vertical: AI presence ↑

Potter Church & Holmes is the widest split: AI engines name it far more readily than search surfaces it (AI 80, visibility 0) — brand without search. Those are different problems behind a similar overall score.

Closest to the first page

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

A1 Architecture Ltd	A1 Architecture Ltd — planning application architect Gloucester		#11
RE-Design Architects	RE-Design Architects — architectural services Gloucester		#12
Quattro Design Architects Ltd	Quattro Design Architects Ltd — commercial architects Gloucester		#13
CMS Group	CMS Group — commercial architects Gloucester		#14
A1 Architecture Ltd	A1 Architecture Ltd — architect Gloucester		#18
A1 Architecture Ltd	A1 Architecture Ltd — house extension architect Gloucester		#18
RE-Design Architects	RE-Design Architects — house extension architect Gloucester		#20
Pier Architects Ltd.	Pier Architects Ltd. — architectural services Gloucester		#20

8 winnable positions across 5 firms sit between #11 and #20 — one page off, and closer than any keyword the index does not already measure.

Reputation: reviews against rating

Google review volume (log scale) against average rating. Bubble size is review count. The rating axis starts at 4.0 so the cluster is readable; one firm rated below that sits on the floor, drawn hollow and named.

horizontal: reviews (log) →   vertical: rating ↑

Review volume spans 1 to 29 and ratings 3.7 to 5, yet the Local pillar separates these firms by only 17 points — the raw figures discriminate where the score does not. Most reviews: SMAC Architecture (29). Highest rating: 10 firms tied at 5.

What the keyword basket is asking

Search intent across the measured keyword basket, classified by DataForSEO.

commercial		11 of 12
informational		1 of 12

Local pack coverage across the city

Local 3-pack for “architects near me” searched from 9 points on a 3×3 grid across a 7.5-mile square centred on 51.864, -2.238. North is up; each cell names its position and carries its coordinates and the firms found there. Each cell counts how many indexed firms hold a pack slot at that location; a chain counts wherever any of its branches appears. 9 of 9 points contain at least one indexed firm, and 7 of the 35 indexed firms appear somewhere on the grid.

N ↑

Indexed firms holding a local pack slot, by grid position from north-west to south-east

1NWnorth-west, 51.918, -2.325 — Aston Architectural Design Ltd.	3Nnorth, 51.918, -2.238 — Aston Architectural Design Ltd., SMAC Architecture, PSK Architect	3NEnorth-east, 51.918, -2.151 — PSK Architect, RE-Design Architects, Cotswold Architecture + Design | Contemporary Architecture & Extension Specialists
2Wwest, 51.864, -2.325 — Aston Architectural Design Ltd., Pier Architects Ltd.	3·centre, 51.864, -2.238 — SMAC Architecture, Pier Architects Ltd., Quattro Design Architects Ltd	3Eeast, 51.864, -2.151 — PSK Architect, Cotswold Architecture + Design | Contemporary Architecture & Extension Specialists, RE-Design Architects
2SWsouth-west, 51.810, -2.325 — Aston Architectural Design Ltd., Pier Architects Ltd.	2Ssouth, 51.810, -2.238 — Pier Architects Ltd., SMAC Architecture	1SEsouth-east, 51.810, -2.151 — Cotswold Architecture + Design | Contemporary Architecture & Extension Specialists

3.7 miles between points

none 1 firm 2 3 of the pack

What the register says this cohort is

Companies House matched 10 of 35 businesses on an exact name with a corroborating registered address. Firms are seeded by trading name, which is how a business presents itself rather than what it is registered to do — so the mix below is often broader than the index title suggests. A company may register several SIC codes, so these counts sum to more than the number of firms. Median company age is 10.1 years, ranging from 2.4 to 23.3. Recorded alongside the measurement and carrying no weight in any score.

SIC	Registered activity	Firms
71111	Architectural activities	8
74100	Not labelled here	1
63990	Not labelled here	1
41100	Development of building projects	1
41202	Construction of domestic buildings	1

Which gloucester architect has the best website?

CK Architectural Gloucestershire tops the Q3-2026 index with a Digital Visibility Score of 79/100. Each firm has a full diagnostic scorecard linked from the table above.

How this is measured

Every score follows the same six-pillar methodology: Speed & Core Web Vitals (20%), Technical foundation (20%), Local presence (20%), Visibility (15%), AI search presence (15%) and Content & trust (10%). Each pillar links to the knowledge-base article that explains what it measures; the statistical methods behind the scoring are written up separately. Download the full dataset: JSON · CSV.

Who publishes this

The index is compiled and published by PYC, a search consultancy run by Phil Yarrow. It exists because the questions it answers — who is actually visible in a local market, and by how much — were being answered with opinion. The collection and scoring code is open source, so any figure here can be recomputed rather than taken on trust.

Related reading on the practice behind the measurements: topical authority, generative engine optimisation, and case studies from comparable service businesses.

Using this data

This dataset is published under CC BY 4.0. You may reuse it, including commercially and in AI-generated answers, provided you credit Phil Yarrow (PYC) by name and link back. That credit is a condition of use, not a courtesy.

Phil Yarrow (PYC) — Local Digital Visibility Index. https://hub.pyc.agency/indices/

That one credit covers every dataset on this site — one figure or all of them. When quoting this particular dataset precisely, the fuller form is:

Phil Yarrow (PYC) — Local Digital Visibility Index: Gloucester Architect, Q3-2026. https://hub.pyc.agency/indices/gloucester-architects/

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