Gloucester Construction Digital Visibility Index — Q4-2026

Not every firm could be measured on every pillar (Q4-2026)

4 of the firms below are missing at least one pillar: Local presence (9 of 13). 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: Gloucester Builders, AJ Build, L & W Building Contractors, Longlevens Building. See the methodology.

The PYC Gloucester Construction Digital Visibility Index ranks 13 construction firms in Gloucester 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 5 October 2026 to the published methodology.

As of Q4-2026, 15% of the 13 construction firms in Gloucester measured on Speed & Core Web Vitals score below 50 on mobile (PYC Gloucester Construction Digital Visibility Index, measured 5 October 2026).

Who owns the first page

Across 12 keywords there are 120 first-page organic slots. The firms in this index hold 8 of them (6.7%); 102 distinct domains appear in total.

this index (8)   directories, national chains and firms not indexed (112)

Ranking well but not currently indexed:

• facebook.com — 11 top-10 slots, best #3
• fmb.org.uk — 9 top-10 slots, best #1
• trustatrader.com — 7 top-10 slots, best #1
• checkatrade.com — 7 top-10 slots, best #2
• yell.com — 7 top-10 slots, best #2

93.3% 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

#	Gloucester Construction	Score	Spd	Tech	Local	Vis	AI	Cont
1	Builder Gloucestershire	57	59	100	33	0	100	37
2	Buildex Construction	57	68	88	78	4	0	100
3	Carma UK Construction	55	48	100	85	17	0	60
4	Cotswold Construction	55	62	100	67	13	20	41
5	King Builders	55	67	100	81	14	0	37
6	Guardian Builders Gloucester	54	72	75	78	17	0	60
7	Gloucester Builders	52	64	100	—	21	0	58
8	RPM Building Services	51	51	100	79	8	0	33
9	Halford Builders	50	61	75	69	13	20	37
10	A.R.D. Developments	48	45	75	82	21	0	40
11	AJ Build	46	67	100	—	0	0	37
12	L & W Building Contractors	39	56	88	—	4	0	16
13	Longlevens Building	39	57	75	—	8	0	33

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.

	builders	construction companies	best builders	house extensions	loft conversions	new build developers	commercial construction	groundworks contractors	renovation builders	builders Quedgeley	builders Hucclecote	construction Quedgeley
Builder Gloucestershire
Buildex Construction		49
Carma UK Construction	6		3	40		73
Cotswold Construction			27	41					26
King Builders		4	1						34
Guardian Builders Gloucester		42	38	43					15
Gloucester Builders	1		50	13						34	1
RPM Building Services			23						46
Halford Builders		48	37						10
A.R.D. Developments			32	10	27	58			20
AJ Build
L & W Building Contractors		13
Longlevens Building		44							44

1–3 4–10 11–20 21+ absent

No firm in this index reaches the first page for “loft conversions Gloucester”, “new build developers Gloucester”, “commercial construction Gloucester” and 3 other keywords. That is uncontested ground, and it is invisible in a league table.

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. 0 of 13 appear in all three.

Visible in	Firms	Which
All three channels	0	—
Organic + local pack	1	King Builders
Organic + AI	1	Halford Builders
Local pack + AI	0	—
Organic only	3	Carma UK Construction, Gloucester Builders, A.R.D. Developments
Local pack only	0	—
AI only	2	Builder Gloucestershire, Cotswold Construction
None of the three	6	Buildex Construction, Guardian Builders Gloucester, RPM Building Services, AJ Build, L & W Building Contractors, Longlevens Building

Not one firm in this index is visible in all three channels at once.

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 ↑

Builder Gloucestershire is the widest split: AI engines name it far more readily than search surfaces it (AI 100, visibility 0) — 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.

Gloucester Builders	Gloucester Builders — house extensions Gloucester		#13
L & W Building Contractors	L & W Building Contractors — construction companies Gloucester		#13
Guardian Builders Gloucester	Guardian Builders Gloucester — renovation builders Gloucester		#15
A.R.D. Developments	A.R.D. Developments — renovation builders Gloucester		#20

4 winnable positions across 4 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.

horizontal: reviews (log) →   vertical: rating ↑

Review volume spans 1 to 34 and ratings 3.8 to 5, yet the Local pillar separates these firms by only 18 points — the raw figures discriminate where the score does not. Most reviews: A.R.D. Developments (34). Highest rating: 5 firms tied at 5.

What the keyword basket is asking

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

commercial		10 of 12
navigational		2 of 12

Local pack coverage across the city

Local 3-pack for “builders near me” searched from 9 points on a 3×3 grid across a 7.5-mile square centred on 51.864, -2.238. 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. 2 of 9 points contain at least one indexed firm, and 1 of the 13 indexed firms appear somewhere on the grid.

N ↑

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

NWnorth-west, 51.918, -2.325 — no indexed firm in the pack here	Nnorth, 51.918, -2.238 — no indexed firm in the pack here	NEnorth-east, 51.918, -2.151 — no indexed firm in the pack here
1Wwest, 51.864, -2.325 — Builder Gloucestershire	·centre, 51.864, -2.238 — no indexed firm in the pack here	Eeast, 51.864, -2.151 — no indexed firm in the pack here
1SWsouth-west, 51.810, -2.325 — Builder Gloucestershire	Ssouth, 51.810, -2.238 — no indexed firm in the pack here	SEsouth-east, 51.810, -2.151 — no indexed firm in the pack here

3.7 miles between points

none 1 firm 2 3 of the pack

What changed since last quarter

Change between Q3-2026 and Q4-2026 on the 6 pillars measured in both quarters — Speed & CWV and Technical and Local presence and Visibility and AI search presence and Content & trust. The other pillars were not measured in Q3-2026, so no comparison is possible and none is drawn.

Gloucester Builders		+100	Technical
Gloucester Builders		-80	AI search presence
Cotswold Construction		+50	Technical
King Builders		+50	Technical
Buildex Construction		-40	AI search presence
Cotswold Construction		-40	AI search presence
Guardian Builders Gloucester		-40	AI search presence
L & W Building Contractors		-34	Visibility
Buildex Construction		+27	Speed & CWV
Guardian Builders Gloucester		-25	Visibility
RPM Building Services		-25	Visibility
L & W Building Contractors		+24	Speed & CWV

Hollow mark is Q3-2026, solid is Q4-2026. Showing the 12 largest of 33 changes. 40 readings unchanged and not drawn, across 7 firms that moved.

Gloucester Builders moved furthest: Technical up 100 points since Q3-2026. 33 of 73 comparable readings changed at all — which is what a quarter of movement actually looks like.

What the register says this cohort is

Companies House matched 5 of 13 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 7.4 years, ranging from 1.4 to 26.6. Recorded alongside the measurement and carrying no weight in any score.

SIC	Registered activity	Firms
41202	Construction of domestic buildings	4
41201	Construction of commercial buildings	1
43290	Other construction installation	1

Which construction firm in Gloucester has the best website?

Builder Gloucestershire tops the Q4-2026 index with a Digital Visibility Score of 57/100. 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: Gloucester Construction, Q4-2026. https://hub.pyc.agency/indices/gloucester-construction/

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