Manifest Design Workshop Ltd — Gloucester Architect Digital Visibility Score
Digital Visibility Score: 44 / 100 · Rank 24 of 35
Digital Visibility Score44/100Rank 24 of 35Problems found1No structured data on the homepageFurthest behind-30Speed & CWV: 36 against a sector median of 66
Measured 1 September 2026 via the PYC Gloucester Architect Digital Visibility Index. Every figure is objective and reproducible from the methodology. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
Pillar breakdown vs sector median
Section titled “Pillar breakdown vs sector median”| Pillar | Score | Median | vs median |
|---|---|---|---|
| Speed & CWV | 36 | 66 | −30 |
| Technical | 75 | 75 | level |
| Local presence | 67 | 67 | level |
| Visibility | 0 | 0 | level |
| AI search presence | 20 | 0 | +20 |
| Content & trust | 50 | 47.5 | +2.5 |
| Speed & CWV | -30 | |
|---|---|---|
| Technical | 0 | |
| Local presence | 0 | |
| Visibility | 0 | |
| AI search presence | +20 | |
| Content & trust | +2.5 |
Problems found
Section titled “Problems found”- 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.
Where this firm ranks
Section titled “Where this firm ranks”| Keyword | Position |
|---|---|
| architects Gloucester | not in top 100 |
| architect Gloucester | not in top 100 |
| architectural services Gloucester | not in top 100 |
| house extension architect Gloucester | not in top 100 |
| planning application architect Gloucester | not in top 100 |
| listed building architect Gloucester | not in top 100 |
| residential architects Gloucester | not in top 100 |
| commercial architects Gloucester | not in top 100 |
| self build architect Gloucester | not in top 100 |
| loft conversion architect Gloucester | not in top 100 |
| barn conversion architect Gloucester | not in top 100 |
| conservation architect Gloucester | not in top 100 |
The gap to the leader
Section titled “The gap to the leader”| Speed & CWV | 36 | |
|---|---|---|
| Technical | 75 | |
| Local presence | 67 | |
| Visibility | 0 | |
| AI search presence | 20 | |
| Content & trust | 50 |
this firm sector median leader
Manifest Design Workshop Ltd trails CK Architectural Gloucestershire by 227 points across 5 pillars, but 69% of that is AI search presence and Visibility alone. It already matches or beats the leader on Local presence.
AI search presence
Section titled “AI search presence”| ✗ | Who are the best architects in Gloucester? | |
| ✗ | Which architect in Gloucester would you recommend for a house extension? | |
| ✗ | Top rated architectural practices in Gloucester | |
| ✗ | I need an architect in Gloucester - who should I contact? | |
| ✓ | Conservation architects in Gloucester | cited by domain |
Why this score
Section titled “Why this score”| Pillar | Score | Made up of |
|---|---|---|
| Content & trust | 50 | about page: no · team page: no · credentials: no · blog or news: yes · homepage: 1,257 words · last changed: 0 days ago |
| Visibility | 0 | ranks for 0 of 12 keywords · local 3-pack: 0 |
| Local presence | 67 | 0 reviews · 0 new in 90 days |
| Technical | 75 | HTTPS: yes · page allows indexing: yes · robots.txt allows crawling: yes · sitemap: yes · structured data: no |
Key findings
Section titled “Key findings”- Speed & CWV: 36/100, below the sector median of 66.
How this compares to the leader
Section titled “How this compares to the leader”CK Architectural Gloucestershire leads the index with 79/100. The largest gaps are: AI search presence (20 vs 100); Visibility (0 vs 76); Speed & CWV (36 vs 62).
Top fixes (ranked by impact)
Section titled “Top fixes (ranked by impact)”- Build local landing pages for the core keyword basket to lift organic and local-pack appearance.
- Publish structured, citable content and entity schema so AI engines surface the business for core local queries.
- Cut mobile LCP below 2.5s (optimise images and remove render-blocking resources) — the biggest score and ranking lever.
Firms ranked near this one
Section titled “Firms ranked near this one”| Firm | Rank | Score | Why it is here |
|---|---|---|---|
| Border Consultancy Chartered Surveyors Ltd | #22 | 45/100 | 2 places above you |
| Potter Church & Holmes | #26 | 42/100 | 2 places below you |
| Forde Architecture | #21 | 46/100 | 3 places above you |
| Peter A Marshall Architect Limited | #27 | 40/100 | 3 places below you |
Context (not scored)
Section titled “Context (not scored)”| Companies House | Company 10067883 · 10.5 years old · active · SIC 41202, 71111 |
|---|---|
| Real-user speed (CrUX) | Too little traffic to appear in Chrome’s public dataset |
| Lighthouse (lab, mobile) | Performance 46 · accessibility 70 · best practices 78 · SEO 85 — biggest losses: LCP request discovery; Document does not have a meta description; Document request latency |
| Google profile detail | 7 photos · claimed · has a description · hours listed |
| Backlinks | 60 referring domains · 197 links · rank 105 |
| Site structure | 1 pages crawled · 60 internal links per page · reachable in: contact 1 click · 2% of links use a generic anchor · 7 sitemap pages not reachable by following links |
| Sitemap | 7 URLs listed · declared in robots.txt · newest entry 545 days old · 5 of 5 sampled URLs resolve |
Where to get this fixed
Section titled “Where to get this fixed”Manifest Design Workshop Ltd’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 (20/100) — read generative engine optimisation on getting named by the answer engines this pillar measures. Background on analysing this pillar: ai search presence.
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.