Swindon Architect 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 (27 of 29), Content & trust (26 of 29). 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: Neil Armstrong Architectural Services, NC Architects Ltd, Airsculpt Tensile Limited tensile fabric structure company. See the methodology.

The PYC Swindon Architect Digital Visibility Index ranks 29 swindon 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, 15% of the 27 swindon architects measured on Speed & Core Web Vitals score below 50 on mobile (PYC Swindon 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 48 of them (40%); 93 distinct domains appear in total.

this index (48)   directories, national chains and firms not indexed (72)

Ranking well but not currently indexed:

• checkatrade.com — 8 top-10 slots, best #1
• houzz.co.uk — 7 top-10 slots, best #1
• greenfuturearchitects.co.uk — 4 top-10 slots, best #2
• swindon.gov.uk — 4 top-10 slots, best #2
• mw-architects.co.uk — 3 top-10 slots, best #1

60.0% 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

#	Swindon Architect	Score	Spd	Tech	Local	Vis	AI	Cont
1	Oc Architects	74	68	88	77	72	80	49
2	Offgrid Architecture	70	64	88	84	41	80	50
3	N W D Design	64	58	88	76	38	80	20
4	Edward Tucker Architecture Ltd	61	23	88	86	39	80	40
5	Pendle Property Design	61	66	63	86	42	60	25
6	Home Plan Design Services	59	83	38	86	55	40	30
7	Allan Corfield Architects Ltd	58	69	100	67	16	0	83
8	DW Architech Limited	58	67	100	67	46	0	41
9	Sullivan	58	55	75	68	40	60	35
10	DPDS Consulting Group	56	49	100	78	34	0	53
11	Rand Planning Consultancy	56	71	75	96	33	0	24
12	MJF CAD Solutions Ltd.	55	46	88	85	53	0	28
13	Planning Drawings	53	99	88	77	0	0	5
14	Easton Bevins	52	74	88	67	0	0	63
15	Construction Edge Swindon Ltd	49	56	75	92	0	0	46
16	Squires Planning	48	51	75	67	0	0	96
17	R & R Design and Build Contractors Limited	47	67	75	83	0	0	15
18	Abode Creative	46	58	100	67	0	0	5
19	Lawrence / Swindon Building Plans	46	100	43	58	29	0	17
20	Sovereign Structures	46	68	75	79	0	0	20
21	Wiltshire Build Solutions	46	58	100	59	0	0	30
22	Halzac Design Ltd	45	70	75	76	0	0	5
23	Silicon EC UK Limited	45	46	75	81	0	0	42
24	Lawrence Wills Architectural Services	42	99	29	73	7	0	3
25	Neil Armstrong Architectural Services	42	—	0	63	52	60	—
26	Hawkridge Studio	41	65	63	79	0	0	0
27	NC Architects Ltd	41	—	0	78	7	80	—
28	JT Plan & Design	39	59	63	59	0	0	30
29	Airsculpt Tensile Limited tensile fabric structure company	31	75	0	63	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
Oc Architects	7	8	10	4	15	12	4	2	4		3
Offgrid Architecture	19	17			24	52	15	38	23		61	1
N W D Design	4	4	3		37	3	5	5	33			13
Edward Tucker Architecture Ltd	12	13				55	13	24			36	70
Pendle Property Design	16	15	19	23	46	67	8	12			27	62
Home Plan Design Services	5	5	5	1	2	64	6	28	12	14	74	55
Allan Corfield Architects Ltd									7
DW Architech Limited	25	18	33	14	34		39	36	37	25	98	67
Sullivan	2	3	7		10	34	3	3	18			17
DPDS Consulting Group	9	7	14		3		9	6
Rand Planning Consultancy	11	14	24	8	18	65	11					68
MJF CAD Solutions Ltd.	10	10	16	13	13	53	14	18	31	29	79	48
Planning Drawings
Easton Bevins
Construction Edge Swindon Ltd
Squires Planning
R & R Design and Build Contractors Limited
Abode Creative
Lawrence / Swindon Building Plans		25	25	5	16				40	26		76
Sovereign Structures
Wiltshire Build Solutions
Halzac Design Ltd
Silicon EC UK Limited
Lawrence Wills Architectural Services
Neil Armstrong Architectural Services	1	1	1	2	4	18	2	4	6	3		56
Hawkridge Studio
NC Architects Ltd
JT Plan & Design
Airsculpt Tensile Limited tensile fabric structure company

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. 4 of 29 appear in all three.

Visible in	Firms	Which
All three channels	4	Oc Architects, Offgrid Architecture, Home Plan Design Services, Sullivan
Organic + local pack	1	MJF CAD Solutions Ltd.
Organic + AI	3	N W D Design, Pendle Property Design, Neil Armstrong Architectural Services
Local pack + AI	2	Edward Tucker Architecture Ltd, NC Architects Ltd
Organic only	4	Allan Corfield Architects Ltd, DPDS Consulting Group, Rand Planning Consultancy, Lawrence / Swindon Building Plans
Local pack only	1	Lawrence Wills Architectural Services
AI only	0	—
None of the three	14	DW Architech Limited, Planning Drawings, Easton Bevins, Construction Edge Swindon Ltd, Squires Planning, R & R Design and Build Contractors Limited, Abode Creative, Sovereign Structures, Wiltshire Build Solutions, Halzac Design Ltd, Silicon EC UK Limited, Hawkridge Studio, JT Plan & Design, Airsculpt Tensile Limited tensile fabric structure company

4 of 29 firms are visible in all three channels. 14 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 ↑

NC Architects Ltd is the widest split: AI engines name it far more readily than search surfaces it (AI 80, visibility 7) — 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.

Rand Planning Consultancy	Rand Planning Consultancy — architects Swindon		#11
Rand Planning Consultancy	Rand Planning Consultancy — residential architects Swindon		#11
Oc Architects	Oc Architects — listed building architect Swindon		#12
Edward Tucker Architecture Ltd	Edward Tucker Architecture Ltd — architects Swindon		#12
Pendle Property Design	Pendle Property Design — commercial architects Swindon		#12
Home Plan Design Services	Home Plan Design Services — self build architect Swindon		#12
N W D Design	N W D Design — conservation architect Swindon		#13
Edward Tucker Architecture Ltd	Edward Tucker Architecture Ltd — architect Swindon		#13
Edward Tucker Architecture Ltd	Edward Tucker Architecture Ltd — residential architects Swindon		#13
MJF CAD Solutions Ltd.	MJF CAD Solutions Ltd. — house extension architect Swindon		#13

31 winnable positions across 13 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 3.9 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 87 and ratings 2 to 5, yet the Local pillar separates these firms by only 38 points — the raw figures discriminate where the score does not. Most reviews: Rand Planning Consultancy (87). Highest rating: 13 firms tied at 5.

What the keyword basket is asking

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

commercial		9 of 12
navigational		2 of 12
transactional		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 51.556, -1.780. 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. 8 of 9 points contain at least one indexed firm, and 11 of the 29 indexed firms appear somewhere on the grid.

N ↑

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

3NWnorth-west, 51.610, -1.866 — Rand Planning Consultancy, Hawkridge Studio, Offgrid Architecture	Nnorth, 51.610, -1.780 — no indexed firm in the pack here	3NEnorth-east, 51.610, -1.693 — Edward Tucker Architecture Ltd, Lawrence Wills Architectural Services, Rand Planning Consultancy
3Wwest, 51.556, -1.866 — Rand Planning Consultancy, Offgrid Architecture, Halzac Design Ltd	3·centre, 51.556, -1.780 — Oc Architects, Home Plan Design Services, Silicon EC UK Limited	3Eeast, 51.556, -1.693 — Edward Tucker Architecture Ltd, Lawrence Wills Architectural Services, N W D Design
3SWsouth-west, 51.502, -1.866 — NC Architects Ltd, Rand Planning Consultancy, Halzac Design Ltd	3Ssouth, 51.502, -1.780 — NC Architects Ltd, Edward Tucker Architecture Ltd, Rand Planning Consultancy	2SEsouth-east, 51.502, -1.693 — NC Architects Ltd, Edward Tucker Architecture Ltd

3.7 miles between points

none 1 firm 2 3 of the pack

What the register says this cohort is

Companies House matched 6 of 29 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 6.6 years, ranging from 3.9 to 18.6. Recorded alongside the measurement and carrying no weight in any score.

SIC	Registered activity	Firms
71111	Architectural activities	3
41202	Construction of domestic buildings	3
41100	Development of building projects	1
43290	Other construction installation	1
43999	Other specialised construction	1

Which swindon architect has the best website?

Oc Architects tops the Q3-2026 index with a Digital Visibility Score of 74/100. 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: Swindon Architect, Q3-2026. https://hub.pyc.agency/indices/swindon-architects/

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