Guardian Builders Gloucester — Gloucester Construction Digital Visibility Score

Digital Visibility Score: 54 / 100 · Rank 6 of 13

Digital Visibility Score54/100Rank 6 of 13 · top 42%Problems found1No structured data on the homepage One page from the first1Closest: renovation builders Gloucester at #15 Furthest behind-25Technical: 75 against a sector median of 100

Measured 5 October 2026 via the PYC Gloucester Construction 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	72	61	+11
Technical	75	100	−25
Local presence	78	78	level
Visibility	17	13	+4
AI search presence	0	0	level
Content & trust	60	37	+23

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

Speed & CWV		+11
Technical		-25
Local presence		0
Visibility		+4
AI search presence		0
Content & trust		+23

Problems found

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

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.

Where this firm ranks

Ranks for 4 of 12 keywords, average position 34.5, in the local 3-pack for 0 keywords.

Keyword	Position
builders Gloucester	not in top 100
construction companies Gloucester	#42
best builders Gloucester	#38
house extensions Gloucester	#43
loft conversions Gloucester	not in top 100
new build developers Gloucester	not in top 100
commercial construction Gloucester	not in top 100
groundworks contractors Gloucester	not in top 100
renovation builders Gloucester	#15
builders Quedgeley	not in top 100
builders Hucclecote	not in top 100
construction Quedgeley	not in top 100

The gap to the leader

This firm against the sector median and the index leader, Builder Gloucestershire, on every pillar.

Speed & CWV		72
Technical		75
Local presence		78
Visibility		17
AI search presence		0
Content & trust		60

this firm sector median leader

The whole deficit to Builder Gloucestershire is AI search presence and Technical — 125 points. It already matches or beats the leader on Speed & CWV, Local presence, Visibility, Content & trust.

Closest to the first page

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

renovation builders Gloucester

#15

1 position sits between #11 and #20 — one page away, and the cheapest ranking work available to this firm.

AI search presence

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

✗	Who are the best builders in Gloucester?
✗	Which construction company in Gloucester would you recommend for an extension?
✗	Top rated building contractors in Gloucester
✗	I need a builder in Gloucester - who should I contact?
✗	Best construction firms in Quedgeley, Gloucester

Local presence

Google Business Profile.

Rating	5 / 5
Reviews	2
Locations	1
Reviews in last 90 days	0
Address matches website	yes

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	60	about page: yes · people introduced: no · credentials: no · blog or news: yes · homepage: 2,740 words
Visibility	17	ranks for 4 of 12 keywords · average position 34.5 · local 3-pack: 0
Local presence	78	2 reviews · rated 5 · 0 new in 90 days
Technical	75	HTTPS: yes · page allows indexing: yes · robots.txt allows crawling: yes · sitemap: yes · structured data: no

Key findings

Technical: 75/100, below the sector median of 100.

How this compares to the leader

Builder Gloucestershire leads the index with 57/100. The largest gaps are: AI search presence (0 vs 100); Technical (75 vs 100).

Top fixes (ranked by impact)

Publish structured, citable content and entity schema so AI engines surface the business for core local queries.
Build local landing pages for the core keyword basket to lift organic and local-pack appearance.
Introduce the people who do the work, on an about or team page and the credentials that matter in this sector (FMB, TrustMark, NHBC), and refresh stale content.

Firms ranked near this one

The firms nearest Guardian Builders Gloucester in this ranking, beyond the two either side.

Firm	Rank	Score	Why it is here
Cotswold Construction	#4	55/100	2 places above you
RPM Building Services	#8	51/100	2 places below you
Carma UK Construction	#3	55/100	3 places above you
Halford Builders	#9	50/100	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 80 · accessibility 93 · best practices 96 · SEO 100 — biggest losses: Use efficient cache lifetimes; Background and foreground colors do not have a sufficient contrast ratio.; Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio
Backlinks	42 referring domains · 83 links · rank 80
Site structure	14 pages crawled · 37.4 internal links per page · reachable in: contact 1 click, about 1 click, services 1 click · 0% of links use a generic anchor · 18 sitemap pages not reachable by following links
Sitemap	19 URLs listed · declared in robots.txt · newest entry 63 days old · 5 of 5 sampled URLs resolve

Where to get this fixed

Guardian Builders Gloucester’s lowest-scoring pillars among those we publish remediation guidance for:

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.
Visibility (17/100) — read topical authority on why ranking breadth across a sector beats chasing single terms. Background on analysing this pillar: visibility.

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.