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Home Plan Design Services — Swindon Architect Digital Visibility Score

Digital Visibility Score: 59 / 100 · Rank 6 of 29

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.

Each pillar scored 0–100 against the sector median for this index. The final column is this firm's distance from that median.
PillarScoreMedianvs median
Speed & CWV8366+17
Technical3875−37
Local presence8677+9
Visibility557+48
AI search presence400+40
Content & trust3030level
Pillar performance against the sector median. Bars right of centre are above the median, left are below.
Speed & CWV+17
Technical-37
Local presence+9
Visibility+48
AI search presence+40
Content & trust0
1 critical problem found. These are specific, checkable faults on the site — not opinions about it.
  • CriticalThe site is not served over HTTPSBrowsers mark it as not secure, and it is a ranking signal in its own right.
  • Worth fixingNo XML sitemap foundSearch engines have to discover every page by following links. On a small site that is survivable; on a large one it is not.
  • Worth fixingNo structured data on the homepageNothing tells a search engine or an assistant what this business is, where it is, or what it does — in machine-readable terms.
  • Worth fixingNo mobile viewport tagThe page is not telling phones how to lay itself out. Most local searches happen on one.
Ranks for 12 of 12 keywords, average position 22.6, in the local 3-pack for 3 keywords.
KeywordPosition
architects Swindon#5
architect Swindon#5
architectural services Swindon#5
house extension architect Swindon#1
planning application architect Swindon#2
listed building architect Swindon#64
residential architects Swindon#6
commercial architects Swindon#28
self build architect Swindon#12
loft conversion architect Swindon#14
barn conversion architect Swindon#74
conservation architect Swindon#55
This firm against the sector median and the index leader, Oc Architects, on every pillar.
Speed & CWV83
Technical38
Local presence86
Visibility55
AI search presence40
Content & trust30

this firm sector median leader

Home Plan Design Services trails Oc Architects by 126 points across 4 pillars, but 71% of that is Technical and AI search presence alone. It already matches or beats the leader on Speed & CWV, Local presence.

Ranked between #11 and #20 — one page from the first, ordered by how close.
self build architect Swindon#12
loft conversion architect Swindon#14

2 positions sit between #11 and #20 — one page away, and the cheapest ranking work available to this firm.

Named in 2 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?cited by domain
Top rated architectural practices in Swindon
I need an architect in Swindon - who should I contact?
Conservation architects in Swindoncited by domain
Google Business Profile.
Rating4.9 / 5
Reviews14
Locations1
Reviews in last 90 days2
Address matches websiteyes
Largest Contentful Paint measured two ways: one throttled lab run, against 28 days of real Chrome users.
Lab (Lighthouse, mobile)4.2sone throttled load on a datacentre machine
Field (real users)1.0s75th percentile of actual Chrome visitors over 28 days

The lab figure is the real-user figure. Both agree the site is performing acceptably for real visitors.

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.
  • efficiency5
  • planning process guidance4
  • extension plan2
  • affordable cost2
  • home design2
  • communication2
  • advice2
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.
PillarScoreMade up of
Content & trust30about page: no · team page: no · credentials: no · blog or news: yes · homepage: 229 words
Visibility55ranks for 12 of 12 keywords · average position 22.6 · local 3-pack: 3
Local presence8614 reviews · rated 4.9 · 2 new in 90 days
Technical38HTTPS: no · page allows indexing: yes · robots.txt allows crawling: yes · sitemap: no · structured data: no
  • Technical: 38/100, below the sector median of 75.

Oc Architects leads the index with 74/100. The largest gaps are: Technical (38 vs 88); AI search presence (40 vs 80); Content & trust (30 vs 49).

  1. Add about/team pages, and refresh stale content.
  2. Add valid LocalBusiness schema, fix indexability, and ensure a fresh XML sitemap is referenced in robots.txt.
  3. Publish structured, citable content and entity schema so AI engines surface the business for core local queries.
The firms nearest Home Plan Design Services in this ranking, beyond the two either side.
FirmRankScoreWhy it is here
Edward Tucker Architecture Ltd#461/1002 places above you
DW Architech Limited#858/1002 places below you
N W D Design#364/1003 places above you
Sullivan#958/1003 places below you
Recorded alongside the measurement to make it easier to judge, but carrying no weight in the Digital Visibility Score. See the methodology.
Companies HouseNo confident match on the registered name
Real-user speed (CrUX)LCP 1044ms · CLS 0 · passes Core Web Vitals
Lighthouse (lab, mobile)Performance 85 · accessibility 51 · best practices 63 · SEO 92 — biggest losses: Background and foreground colors do not have a sufficient contrast ratio.; Render-blocking requests; Page lacks the HTML doctype, thus triggering quirks-mode
Google profile detail1 photo · claimed · no description · hours listed · 0 of 14 reviews are one star
Backlinks84 referring domains · 168 links · rank 103
Site structure14 pages crawled · 7.5 internal links per page · reachable in: contact 1 click · 0% of links use a generic anchor
Sitemapnot declared in robots.txt

Home Plan Design Services’s lowest-scoring pillars among those we publish remediation guidance for:

  • Content & trust (30/100) — read topical authority on how depth and coverage compound into citation-worthiness. Background on analysing this pillar: content & trust.
  • Technical (38/100) — read SEO automation on running these technical checks continuously rather than once a quarter. Background on analysing this pillar: technical.

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.