Besley Hill — Bristol Estate Agent Digital Visibility Score

Digital Visibility Score: 51 / 100 · Rank 13 of 18

Digital Visibility Score51/100Rank 13 of 18Critical problem1Search engines are being told not to index this siteFurthest behind-13Visibility: 0 against a sector median of 13

Measured 3 October 2026 via the PYC Bristol Estate Agent 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	81	70	+11
Technical	88	88	level
Local presence	—	83.5	not measured
Visibility	0	13	−13
AI search presence	0	0	level
Content & trust	70	62	+8

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

Speed & CWV		+11
Technical		0
Local presence		not measured
Visibility		-13
AI search presence		0
Content & trust		+8

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.
• Worth knowingThe site has not changed in a long timeThe homepage last reported a change 3 years ago.

Where this firm ranks

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

Keyword	Position
estate agents Bristol	not in top 100
best estate agents Bristol	not in top 100
top estate agents Bristol	not in top 100
letting agents Bristol	not in top 100
sell my house Bristol	not in top 100
house valuation Bristol	not in top 100
property for sale Bristol	not in top 100
estate agent fees Bristol	not in top 100
rental properties Bristol	not in top 100
estate agents Clifton	not in top 100
estate agents Redland	not in top 100
letting agents Clifton	not in top 100

The gap to the leader

This firm against the sector median and the index leader, CJ Hole, on every pillar.

Speed & CWV		81
Technical		88
Visibility		0
AI search presence		0
Content & trust		70

this firm sector median leader

Besley Hill trails CJ Hole by 83 points across 3 pillars, but 86% of that is AI search presence and Visibility alone. It already matches or beats the leader on Speed & CWV, Content & trust.

AI search presence

Named in 0 of 5 AI answers. A domain citation is stronger evidence than a name mention.

✗	Who are the best estate agents in Bristol?
✗	Which estate agent in Bristol would you recommend for selling a house?
✗	Top rated letting agents in Bristol
✗	I am looking for an estate agent in Bristol - who should I contact?
✗	Best estate agents in Clifton, Bristol

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	70	about page: yes · people introduced: no · credentials: yes · blog or news: yes · homepage: 816 words · last changed: 1101 days ago
Visibility	0	ranks for 0 of 12 keywords · local 3-pack: 0
Technical	88	HTTPS: yes · page allows indexing: yes · robots.txt allows crawling: no · sitemap: yes · structured data: yes

Key findings

• Visibility: 0/100, below the sector median of 13.

How this compares to the leader

CJ Hole leads the index with 67/100. The largest gaps are: AI search presence (0 vs 40); Visibility (0 vs 31); 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. Introduce the people who do the work, on an about or team page and the credentials that matter in this sector (Propertymark, NAEA, The Property Ombudsman), and refresh stale content.

Firms ranked near this one

The firms nearest Besley Hill in this ranking, beyond the two either side.

Firm	Rank	Score	Why it is here
Elephant Estate Agents	#11	56/100	2 places above you
Connells Bristol	#15	44/100	2 places below you
Boardwalk Property	#10	57/100	3 places above you
Leese & Nagle	#16	44/100	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 64 · accessibility 92 · best practices 96 · SEO 100 — biggest losses: Links rely on color to be distinguishable.; Network dependency tree; Background and foreground colors do not have a sufficient contrast ratio.
Backlinks	84 referring domains · 303 links · rank 195
Site structure	1 pages crawled · 0 internal links per page
Sitemap	not declared in robots.txt

Where to get this fixed

Besley Hill’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 aboveMaggs & Allen#12 · 56/100 Full indexAll 18 firms ↓ Ranked belowHydes of Bristol#14 · 47/100

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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.