Abode Creative — Swindon Architect Digital Visibility Score

Digital Visibility Score: 46 / 100 · Rank 18 of 29

Digital Visibility Score46/100Rank 18 of 29Problems found1Very little published contentFurthest behind-25Content & trust: 5 against a sector median of 30

Measured 1 September 2026 via the PYC Swindon 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	58	66	−8
Technical	100	75	+25
Local presence	67	77	−10
Visibility	0	7	−7
AI search presence	0	0	level
Content & trust	5	30	−25

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

Speed & CWV		-8
Technical		+25
Local presence		-10
Visibility		-7
AI search presence		0
Content & trust		-25

Problems found

These are specific, checkable faults on the site — not opinions about it.

• Worth fixingVery little published contentThe homepage carries 131 words and the site links to no blog, news or insights section. There is little here for a search engine to match, or for an assistant to quote.

Where this firm ranks

Ranks for 0 of 12 keywords, in the local 3-pack for 0 keywords.

Keyword	Position
architects Swindon	not in top 100
architect Swindon	not in top 100
architectural services Swindon	not in top 100
house extension architect Swindon	not in top 100
planning application architect Swindon	not in top 100
listed building architect Swindon	not in top 100
residential architects Swindon	not in top 100
commercial architects Swindon	not in top 100
self build architect Swindon	not in top 100
loft conversion architect Swindon	not in top 100
barn conversion architect Swindon	not in top 100
conservation architect Swindon	not in top 100

The gap to the leader

This firm against the sector median and the index leader, Oc Architects, on every pillar.

Speed & CWV		58
Technical		100
Local presence		67
Visibility		0
AI search presence		0
Content & trust		5

this firm sector median leader

Abode Creative trails Oc Architects by 216 points across 5 pillars, but 70% of that is AI search presence and Visibility alone. It already matches or beats the leader on Technical.

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 Swindon?
✗	Which architect in Swindon would you recommend for a house extension?
✗	Top rated architectural practices in Swindon
✗	I need an architect in Swindon - who should I contact?
✗	Conservation architects in Swindon

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	5	about page: no · team page: no · credentials: no · blog or news: no · homepage: 131 words
Visibility	0	ranks for 0 of 12 keywords · 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

• Local presence: 67/100, below the sector median of 77.
• Content & trust: 5/100, below the sector median of 30.

How this compares to the leader

Oc Architects leads the index with 74/100. The largest gaps are: AI search presence (0 vs 80); Visibility (0 vs 72); Content & trust (5 vs 49).

Top fixes (ranked by impact)

1. Build local landing pages for the core keyword basket to lift organic and local-pack appearance.
2. Publish structured, citable content and entity schema so AI engines surface the business for core local queries.
3. Add about/team pages, and refresh stale content.

Firms ranked near this one

The firms nearest Abode Creative in this ranking, beyond the two either side.

Firm	Rank	Score	Why it is here
Squires Planning	#16	48/100	2 places above you
Sovereign Structures	#20	46/100	2 places below you
Construction Edge Swindon Ltd	#15	49/100	3 places above you
Wiltshire Build Solutions	#21	46/100	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 57 · accessibility 100 · best practices 100 · SEO 92 — biggest losses: Render-blocking requests; Network dependency tree; Improve image delivery
Google profile detail	8 photos · claimed · has a description · hours listed
Backlinks	29 referring domains · 30 links · rank 0
Site structure	2 pages crawled · 7 internal links per page · 0% of links use a generic anchor
Sitemap	declared in robots.txt

Where to get this fixed

Abode Creative’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 (0/100) — read generative engine optimisation on getting named by the answer engines this pillar measures. Background on analysing this pillar: ai search presence.

↑ Ranked aboveR & R Design and Build Contractors Limited#17 · 47/100 Full indexAll 29 firms ↓ Ranked belowLawrence / Swindon Building Plans#19 · 46/100

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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.