The Development Studio (TDS) — Gloucester Architect Digital Visibility Score

Digital Visibility Score: 60 / 100 · Rank 8 of 35

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

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	70	66	+4
Technical	100	75	+25
Local presence	67	67	level
Visibility	29	0	+29
AI search presence	0	0	level
Content & trust	83	47.5	+35.5

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

Speed & CWV		+4
Technical		+25
Local presence		0
Visibility		+29
AI search presence		0
Content & trust		+35.5

Where this firm ranks

Ranks for 7 of 12 keywords, average position 21, in the local 3-pack for 0 keywords.

Keyword	Position
architects Gloucester	#10
architect Gloucester	#9
architectural services Gloucester	#9
house extension architect Gloucester	not in top 100
planning application architect Gloucester	#31
listed building architect Gloucester	not in top 100
residential architects Gloucester	#26
commercial architects Gloucester	#2
self build architect Gloucester	not in top 100
loft conversion architect Gloucester	#60
barn conversion architect Gloucester	not in top 100
conservation architect Gloucester	not in top 100

The gap to the leader

This firm against the sector median and the index leader, CK Architectural Gloucestershire, on every pillar.

Speed & CWV		70
Technical		100
Local presence		67
Visibility		29
AI search presence		0
Content & trust		83

this firm sector median leader

The whole deficit to CK Architectural Gloucestershire is AI search presence and Visibility — 147 points. It already matches or beats the leader on Speed & CWV, Technical, Local presence, Content & trust.

AI search presence

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

✗	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

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
Content & trust	83	about page: yes · team page: yes · credentials: yes · blog or news: no · homepage: 1,678 words · last changed: 0 days ago
Visibility	29	ranks for 7 of 12 keywords · average position 21 · local 3-pack: 0
Local presence	67	0 reviews · 0 new in 90 days
Technical	100	HTTPS: yes · page allows indexing: yes · robots.txt allows crawling: yes · sitemap: yes · structured data: yes

Key findings

No pillar falls materially below the sector median this quarter.

How this compares to the leader

CK Architectural Gloucestershire leads the index with 79/100. The largest gaps are: AI search presence (0 vs 100); Visibility (29 vs 76).

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.
Restart Google review generation and complete the Business Profile to close the local-pack gap.

Firms ranked near this one

The firms nearest The Development Studio (TDS) in this ranking, beyond the two either side.

Firm	Rank	Score	Why it is here
Roberts Limbrick Ltd	#6	63/100	2 places above you
Homeplan Drafting Services	#10	59/100	2 places below you
CMS Group	#5	63/100	3 places above you
SMAC Architecture	#11	58/100	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 80 · accessibility 83 · best practices 100 · SEO 92 — biggest losses: Links do not have a discernible name; Elements with `role="dialog"` or `role="alertdialog"` do not have accessible names.; Reduce unused CSS
Google profile detail	24 photos · claimed · has a description · hours listed
Backlinks	35 referring domains · 37 links · rank 3
Site structure	25 pages crawled · 25.2 internal links per page · reachable in: contact 1 click, about 1 click, services 1 click · 0% of links use a generic anchor
Sitemap	10 URLs listed · declared in robots.txt · newest entry 928 days old · 5 of 5 sampled URLs resolve

Where to get this fixed

The Development Studio (TDS)‘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 (29/100) — 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.