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Architects of Hair

Hairdresser · Waimakariri District East, Christchurch

What your customers see when they look for you, and where that puts you among 498 Christchurch hair salons & barbers.

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Checked13 October 2026
Your marketChristchurch hair salons & barbers · 498 businesses
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Architects of Hair

Hairdresser · Waimakariri District East, Christchurch

Where you stand#421of 498 hair salons & barbers
Overall health1.5/10across the eight areas

Going well

05Facebook page6.208Opening hours6.0

Where we can help

01Google listing2.204Listings and social1.902Reviews1.603Map positions0.107Google search and traffic0.006Your website-
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What AI tells people about you

Architects of Hair is a hair salon in Swannanoa offering colour and styling services focused on striking results. The salon emphasises stunning colour and contemporary hairstyles, with a small-team feel and regular clients noting consistent, friendly service. Customers also mention an on-site retail selection of hair products alongside salon services.

Architects of Hair is a hair salon located in Swannanoa that describes itself as specialising in stunning colour and hair styles. It operates within the Hair Salons and Barbers category and presents a focused approach to colour and styling for local clients.

Services centre on colour work and contemporary hairstyling, reflecting the business-provided note about "stunning colour and hair styles." The salon offers cut, colour and styling services consistent with a local hair salon and includes product retail as part of its service offering.

Customer feedback over several years points to consistently positive experiences. Reviews mention friendly, personable service with clients returning for repeat visits, and one review refers to a named stylist, Kylie. Customers also note a pleasant overall experience and that the salon sells a range of haircare products alongside appointments.

Locally, Architects of Hair is distinguished by its emphasis on colour-driven styling and a small-salon atmosphere in Swannanoa. Regular clients tend to expect reliable service, personalised attention from known stylists, and the convenience of purchasing professional hair products at the same site.

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01Google listingMarketbase business report

Your Google listing

Architects of Hair shows a low overall Google Business Listing health, with clear steps to improve the listing. The key strengths include verified claim status, visible business hours, a listed phone number, and a full address, which builds trust for local clients. The primary opportunities focus on adding a website link, a logo, more photos, and refining the description to lift below average performance.

Strengths

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    Open statusYour listing shows the business as trading, so customers see accurate availability and Google treats the listing as live.
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    ClaimedYour listing is claimed, so you control what it says, you can reply to reviews, and edits suggested by the public come to you first.
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    NameYour business name is showing on the listing, so a customer searching for you by name finds you, and everything else on the listing hangs off it.

Top three opportunities

  • 1
    WebsiteYour listing has no website link, so a customer who wants to check your prices or your work before ringing has nowhere to go from Google.
  • 2
    Description lengthYour description is far shorter than what most businesses here have written, which means a customer comparing listings gets a line from you and three paragraphs from the business beside you.
  • 3
    Photos on the listingYou have no photos on your listing, or close to none, so a customer scrolling past sees a blank where every other business shows their work.
11 checks on your Google listing. You're seeing 6 of them.
2.2Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
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Hairdresser · Waimakariri District East
Open 6 days · late Thu ✓
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OverviewReviewsPhotosAbout
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Stunning Colour and hair styles

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Google listingChristchurch hair salons & barbers · 498 businesses
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02ReviewsMarketbase business report

Your reviews

Architects of Hair shows low overall health on Google reviews with a 1.7/10 score, indicating a need for improvement in engagement and volume. The strongest positive is a top-10% star rating, reflecting consistently high customer satisfaction. Key opportunities focus on increasing review volume, improving response rate, and continuing merit-based rating progress.

Strengths

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    Star ratingYour rating is among the highest in this market and it does its own selling - a customer sees it before they read anything else.

Top three opportunities

  • 1
    Review confidenceRating and review volume together sit well behind this market, which means a customer comparing you has both halves of the picture reading thin.
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    Response rateNone of your reviews have a reply, which means a customer reading them sees your happiest and your angriest customers with nothing from you in between.
  • 3
    Review countYour review count sits well below what buyers here are used to seeing, which means a customer comparing options side by side reads you as the less proven choice.
4 checks on your reviews. You're seeing all of them.
1.6Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
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5.0★★★★★3 reviews 3
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1How far your rating and your review count together can be trusted
Google reviewsChristchurch hair salons & barbers · 498 businesses
You are #417 for your Google reviews
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03Map positionsMarketbase business report

Where you show up on the map

Architects of Hair currently shows a very low overall health in Google Maps rankings, indicating limited visibility across multiple suburbs. The strongest note is a top-5 possibility around the keyword architect in rangiora north west in christchurch, new zealand (rank 20), suggesting a narrow opportunity to improve broader discovery. Focus should be on updating listing details and ensuring address accuracy to raise aggregate and borough scores.

Strengths

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Top two opportunities

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    Maps visibility across the city groupYou barely turn up in Google Maps searches across the suburbs around you, so the customers who search by what they need rather than by your name never see you at all.
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    Maps visibility in your own suburbWe are not seeing you in Maps searches in your own suburb, which is the search a customer standing a street away actually makes.
2 checks on your map positions. You're seeing both.
0.1Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
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1Not seen in the searches we ran across Christchurch
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Architects of Hair2Further down, below the first results
Map positionsChristchurch hair salons & barbers · 498 businesses
You are #492 for map positions
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Where customers find you

Architects of Hair shows a healthy online presence but the overall health score of 0.9 out of 10 indicates very low performance in the social and directory presence area. The strongest current strength is a very high-trust Facebook profile, suggesting reliable reach with existing content. Opportunities include expanding on Instagram and TikTok, and claiming key directory listings to build visibility.

Strengths

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    Having a Facebook page at allWe found your Facebook Profile page, and the trail is strong enough that nobody would question it is yours - it is linked from something you own, or it dominates a search for your name.

Top three opportunities

  • 1
    Instagram ProfileWe could not find an active Instagram Profile profile for your business, so a customer who looks for you there finds nothing.
  • 2
    Tiktok ProfileWe could not find an active TikTok account for your business, so anyone who looks for you there finds nothing.
  • 3
    Yellow ProfileWe could not find an active Yellow Profile listing for your business, which means anyone checking you there finds nothing and moves on to whoever is listed.
14 checks on your listings and social. You're seeing 4 of them.
1.9Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
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FacebookArchitectsofhairArchitects of Hair | Facebook✓
InstagramNo account found1
TiktokNo account found2
YellowNo listing found3
FreshaNo listing found
Listings and socialChristchurch hair salons & barbers · 498 businesses
You are #404 for listings and social
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Your Facebook page

Strengths

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    A page address you choseThe address on your page carries your business name, so a customer told about you at a barbecue can find the page by typing what they heard.
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    A phone numberA phone number shows on your page, so the person who found you on Facebook before they found your website can ring straight from it.
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    An email addressCustomers can see an email address on the page, which gives the one who wants a quote in writing a route that does not depend on anyone picking up the phone.

Top three opportunities

  • 1
    People following your pageFewer people follow your page than follow half the pages here.
  • 2
    Recommendations on your pageYou hold fewer recommendations than the middle of this market.
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    What your page says about youYour intro is shorter than half the pages here.
9 checks on your Facebook page. You're seeing 6 of them.
6.2Good
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
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358 followers 1
Kylie Krahagen specialising in creative colour work,hair ups etc. By appointment only.3
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★ 5 reviews · recommended 2
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☎ +64 27 672 2159✓
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Facebook pageChristchurch hair salons & barbers · 498 businesses
You are #191 for your Facebook page
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Your website

Strengths

Your first one is close. Sort an opportunity below and it moves up here.

Top three opportunities

  • 1
    Domain HealthYour website did not come back healthy when we tried it, and anyone clicking through from your Google listing is meeting whatever we met.
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    Domain UniquenessWe could not find a domain registered to your business, which means there is no address of your own for a customer to go to and nothing for your Google listing to link to.
  • 3
    Domain Age ScoreWe could not read how long your domain has been registered, or it is only weeks old.
3 checks on your website. You're seeing all of them.
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What customers seeWhere you rank
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Google Mapsgoogle.com › mapsArchitects of Hair - Waimakariri District East, Christchurch
Your websiteNo website of your own1
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How people find you on Google

Strengths

Your first one is close. Sort an opportunity below and it moves up here.

Where we can help

Nothing to sort here.
0 checks on your search and traffic. You're seeing all of them.
0.0Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
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No ads from you on any search
Architects of HairNot in these results
Google search and trafficChristchurch hair salons & barbers · 498 businesses
You are #212 for Google search and traffic
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Your hours against demand

Architects of Hair mostly aligns opening hours with when local customers look for hair services, with strong midweek and Saturday midday coverage but some notable gaps on weekend afternoons. The salon is open during high-demand windows on Tuesday 11am-1pm and Saturday 11am-12pm, while being closed during popular Saturday 1-2pm and several Sunday afternoon peaks. No low-demand open hours were flagged.

Strengths

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Top opportunity

  • 1
    Hours aligned with demandYour hours cover more of the busy stretches than the middle of the field, so you are open for most of the searching that happens near you.
1 check on your opening hours. You're seeing it.
6.0Good
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
Architects of Hair
OverviewReviewsPhotosAbout
Hours 1
Monday9am-5pm
Tuesday9am-5pm
Wednesday9am-5pm
Thursday9am-8pm
Friday9am-6pm
Saturday8am-1pm
SundayClosed
Opening hoursChristchurch hair salons & barbers · 498 businesses
You are #201 for opening hours
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01Google listing3 opportunities

02Reviews3 opportunities

03Map positions2 opportunities

04Listings and social3 opportunities

05Facebook page3 opportunities

06Your website3 opportunities

08Opening hours1 opportunity

Where you'd stand#421of 498 Christchurch hair salons & barbers
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