Holmes Architects — Worcester Architect Digital Visibility Score

Digital Visibility Score: 62 / 100 · Rank 3 of 25

Digital Visibility Score62/100Rank 3 of 25 · top 8%Critical problem1Search engines are being told not to index this siteOne page from the first4Closest: architect Worcester at #12Furthest behind-11Local presence: 67 against a sector median of 78

Measured 1 September 2026 via the PYC Worcester 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	69	61	+8
Technical	88	75	+13
Local presence	67	78	−11
Visibility	38	17	+21
AI search presence	40	0	+40
Content & trust	50	37	+13

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

Speed & CWV		+8
Technical		+13
Local presence		-11
Visibility		+21
AI search presence		+40
Content & trust		+13

Problems found

1 critical problem found. These are specific, checkable faults on the site — not opinions about it.

• CriticalSearch engines are being told not to index this siteThe site’s own robots.txt disallows crawling. Until that changes, nothing else on this page can help — the pages cannot enter the index in the first place.

Where this firm ranks

Ranks for 9 of 12 keywords, average position 12.7, in the local 3-pack for 0 keywords.

Keyword	Position
architects Worcester	#13
architect Worcester	#12
architectural services Worcester	#3
house extension architect Worcester	#6
planning application architect Worcester	not in top 100
listed building architect Worcester	#17
residential architects Worcester	#10
commercial architects Worcester	#19
self build architect Worcester	#9
loft conversion architect Worcester	not in top 100
barn conversion architect Worcester	#25
conservation architect Worcester	not in top 100

The gap to the leader

This firm against the sector median and the index leader, Taylor & Co Architects - Worcester, on every pillar.

Speed & CWV		69
Technical		88
Local presence		67
Visibility		38
AI search presence		40
Content & trust		50

this firm sector median leader

Holmes Architects trails Taylor & Co Architects - Worcester by 60 points across 3 pillars, but 80% of that is Visibility and Local presence alone. It already matches or beats the leader on Speed & CWV, AI search presence, Content & trust.

Closest to the first page

Ranked between #11 and #20 — one page from the first, ordered by how close.

architect Worcester		#12
architects Worcester		#13
listed building architect Worcester		#17
commercial architects Worcester		#19

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

AI search presence

Named in 2 of 5 AI answers. A domain citation is stronger evidence than a name mention.

✗	Who are the best architects in Worcester?
✓	Which architect in Worcester would you recommend for a house extension?	named
✗	Top rated architectural practices in Worcester
✓	I need an architect in Worcester - who should I contact?	cited by domain
✗	Conservation architects in Worcester

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	50	about page: no · team page: no · credentials: yes · blog or news: yes · homepage: 204 words
Visibility	38	ranks for 9 of 12 keywords · average position 12.7 · local 3-pack: 0
Local presence	67	0 reviews · 0 new in 90 days
Technical	88	HTTPS: yes · page allows indexing: yes · robots.txt allows crawling: no · sitemap: yes · structured data: yes

Key findings

• Local presence: 67/100, below the sector median of 78.

How this compares to the leader

Taylor & Co Architects - Worcester leads the index with 68/100. The largest gaps are: Visibility (38 vs 68); Local presence (67 vs 85); Technical (88 vs 100).

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 Holmes Architects in this ranking, beyond the two either side.

Firm	Rank	Score	Why it is here
Taylor & Co Architects - Worcester	#1	68/100	2 places above you
Vivid Architects	#5	60/100	2 places below you
Nick Joyce Architects LTD	#6	59/100	3 places below you
DJD Architects	#7	57/100	4 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	Company 14986587 · 3.2 years old · active · SIC 71111
Real-user speed (CrUX)	Too little traffic to appear in Chrome’s public dataset
Lighthouse (lab, mobile)	Performance 79 · accessibility 98 · best practices 100 · SEO 100 — biggest losses: Network dependency tree; Reduce unused JavaScript; Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order
Google profile detail	1 photo · claimed · has a description · hours listed
Backlinks	47 referring domains · 182 links · rank 59
Site structure	22 pages crawled · 14 internal links per page · reachable in: contact 1 click, services 1 click · 0% of links use a generic anchor
Sitemap	5 URLs listed · declared in robots.txt · newest entry 243 days old · 5 of 5 sampled URLs resolve

Where to get this fixed

Holmes Architects’s lowest-scoring pillars among those we publish remediation guidance for:

• Visibility (38/100) — read topical authority on why ranking breadth across a sector beats chasing single terms. Background on analysing this pillar: visibility.
• AI search presence (40/100) — read generative engine optimisation on getting named by the answer engines this pillar measures. Background on analysing this pillar: ai search presence.

↑ Ranked aboveEP Architecture Ltd#2 · 67/100 Full indexAll 25 firms ↓ Ranked belowRandall Architectural limited#4 · 61/100

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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.