Gloucester Construction Digital Visibility Index — Q3-2026

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

3 of the firms below are missing at least one pillar: Speed & CWV (12 of 13), Local presence (10 of 13). 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: AJ Build, L & W Building Contractors, Gloucester Builders. See the methodology.

The PYC Gloucester Construction Digital Visibility Index ranks 13 gloucester constructions 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 27 August 2026 to the published methodology.

As of Q3-2026, 33% of the 12 gloucester constructions measured on Speed & Core Web Vitals score below 50 on mobile (PYC Gloucester Construction Digital Visibility Index, measured 27 August 2026).

Who owns the first page

Across 12 keywords there are 120 first-page organic slots. The firms in this index hold 11 of them (9.2%); 108 distinct domains appear in total.

this index (11)   directories, national chains and firms not indexed (109)

Ranking well but not currently indexed:

• checkatrade.com — 10 top-10 slots, best #1
• fmb.org.uk — 8 top-10 slots, best #1
• trustatrader.com — 7 top-10 slots, best #1
• irenovateltd.co.uk — 4 top-10 slots, best #1
• thornhomes.co.uk — 4 top-10 slots, best #3

90.8% 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 Construction	Score	Spd	Tech	Local	Vis	AI	Cont
1	Guardian Builders Gloucester	64	73	75	78	42	40	60
2	Builder Gloucestershire	59	62	100	33	8	100	37
3	Buildex Construction	57	41	75	78	17	40	100
4	RPM Building Services	55	55	100	79	33	0	33
5	Cotswold Construction	53	62	50	67	29	60	41
6	Carma UK Construction	50	32	100	85	4	0	60
7	Longlevens Building	50	57	75	81	29	0	33
8	Halford Builders	49	60	75	69	29	0	37
9	A.R.D. Developments	48	48	63	82	33	0	40
10	AJ Build	47	66	100	—	4	0	37
11	King Builders	47	61	50	81	31	0	37
12	L & W Building Contractors	39	32	88	—	38	0	16
13	Gloucester Builders	36	—	0	—	25	80	58

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.

	builders	construction companies	best builders	house extensions	loft conversions	new build developers	commercial construction	groundworks contractors	renovation builders	builders Quedgeley	builders Hucclecote	construction Quedgeley
Guardian Builders Gloucester	16	26	12	25	17		14		15	33	37	57
Builder Gloucestershire				29	44
Buildex Construction		59					54				7	21
RPM Building Services	19	29	25	21			17		7	38		35
Cotswold Construction	51	68	34	55	23				36			60
Carma UK Construction						65
Longlevens Building	3	42	3	8			32			22		32
Halford Builders	14	47	39	27	11				10	29
A.R.D. Developments	27	50	30	28	62	53			25		68
AJ Build	36
King Builders	6	1	11				13	47		16		26
L & W Building Contractors	4	12	8	9	12		20		13	23		34
Gloucester Builders	43		40	33	26				40		15

1–3 4–10 11–20 21+ absent

No firm in this index reaches the first page for “loft conversions Gloucester”, “new build developers Gloucester”, “commercial construction Gloucester” and 3 other keywords. That is uncontested ground, and it is invisible in a league table.

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. 0 of 13 appear in all three.

Visible in	Firms	Which
All three channels	0	—
Organic + local pack	1	King Builders
Organic + AI	1	Buildex Construction
Local pack + AI	0	—
Organic only	4	RPM Building Services, Longlevens Building, Halford Builders, L & W Building Contractors
Local pack only	0	—
AI only	4	Guardian Builders Gloucester, Builder Gloucestershire, Cotswold Construction, Gloucester Builders
None of the three	3	Carma UK Construction, A.R.D. Developments, AJ Build

Not one firm in this index is visible in all three channels at once.

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 ↑

Builder Gloucestershire is the widest split: AI engines name it far more readily than search surfaces it (AI 100, visibility 8) — 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.

Halford Builders	Halford Builders — loft conversions Gloucester		#11
King Builders	King Builders — best builders Gloucester		#11
Guardian Builders Gloucester	Guardian Builders Gloucester — best builders Gloucester		#12
L & W Building Contractors	L & W Building Contractors — construction companies Gloucester		#12
L & W Building Contractors	L & W Building Contractors — loft conversions Gloucester		#12
King Builders	King Builders — commercial construction Gloucester		#13
L & W Building Contractors	L & W Building Contractors — renovation builders Gloucester		#13
Guardian Builders Gloucester	Guardian Builders Gloucester — commercial construction Gloucester		#14
Halford Builders	Halford Builders — builders Gloucester		#14
Guardian Builders Gloucester	Guardian Builders Gloucester — renovation builders Gloucester		#15

17 winnable positions across 6 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.

horizontal: reviews (log) →   vertical: rating ↑

Review volume spans 1 to 34 and ratings 3.8 to 5, yet the Local pillar separates these firms by only 18 points — the raw figures discriminate where the score does not. Most reviews: A.R.D. Developments (34). Highest rating: 6 firms tied at 5.

What the keyword basket is asking

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

commercial		10 of 12
navigational		2 of 12

Local pack coverage across the city

Local 3-pack for “builders 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. 2 of 9 points contain at least one indexed firm, and 1 of the 13 indexed firms appear somewhere on the grid.

N ↑

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

NWnorth-west, 51.918, -2.325 — no indexed firm in the pack here	Nnorth, 51.918, -2.238 — no indexed firm in the pack here	NEnorth-east, 51.918, -2.151 — no indexed firm in the pack here
1Wwest, 51.864, -2.325 — Builder Gloucestershire	·centre, 51.864, -2.238 — no indexed firm in the pack here	Eeast, 51.864, -2.151 — no indexed firm in the pack here
1SWsouth-west, 51.810, -2.325 — Builder Gloucestershire	Ssouth, 51.810, -2.238 — no indexed firm in the pack here	SEsouth-east, 51.810, -2.151 — no indexed firm in the pack here

3.7 miles between points

none 1 firm 2 3 of the pack

What the register says this cohort is

Companies House matched 5 of 13 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 7.3 years, ranging from 1.3 to 26.5. Recorded alongside the measurement and carrying no weight in any score.

SIC	Registered activity	Firms
41202	Construction of domestic buildings	4
41201	Construction of commercial buildings	1
43290	Other construction installation	1

Which gloucester construction has the best website?

Guardian Builders Gloucester tops the Q3-2026 index with a Digital Visibility Score of 64/100. 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/

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

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