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.
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 fixingStructured data present, but no LocalBusiness markupThe page describes something to machines, but not that it is a local business with an address and opening hours.
Worth knowingThe site has not changed in a long timeThe homepage last reported a change 2.2 years ago.
This firm against the sector median and the index leader, CK Architectural Gloucestershire, on every pillar.
Speed & CWV
78
Technical
75
Local presence
88
Visibility
33
AI search presence
0
Content & trust
70
this firm sector median leader
Pier Architects Ltd. trails CK Architectural Gloucestershire by 168 points across 3 pillars, but 85% of that is AI search presence and Visibility alone. It already matches or beats the leader on Speed & CWV, Local presence, Content & trust.
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.
CK Architectural Gloucestershire leads the index with 79/100. The largest gaps are: AI search presence (0 vs 100); Visibility (33 vs 76); Technical (75 vs 100).
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 15662753 · 2.4 years old · active · SIC 71111, 74100
Real-user speed (CrUX)
Too little traffic to appear in Chrome’s public dataset
Lighthouse (lab, mobile)
Performance 73 · accessibility 88 · best practices 96 · SEO 92 — biggest losses: Background and foreground colors do not have a sufficient contrast ratio.; Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order; Minimize main-thread work
Google profile detail
63 photos · claimed · has a description · hours listed · 0 of 9 reviews are one star
Backlinks
69 referring domains · 106 links · rank 281
Site structure
25 pages crawled · 25.9 internal links per page · reachable in: contact 1 click, about 1 click, services 1 click · 4% of links use a generic anchor
Sitemap
24 URLs listed · not declared in robots.txt · newest entry 27 days old · 5 of 5 sampled URLs resolve
Visibility (33/100) — read topical authority on why ranking breadth across a sector beats chasing single terms. Background on analysing this pillar: visibility.