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Barry Connor Design

Architectural designer · Spreydon, Christchurch

What your customers see when they look for you, and where that puts you among 252 Christchurch architects.

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Barry Connor Design

Architectural designer · Spreydon, Christchurch

Where you stand#23of 252 architects
Overall health9.1/10across the eight areas

Going well

03Map positions9.308Opening hours9.204Listings and social8.402Reviews7.805Facebook page7.407Google search and traffic6.901Google listing6.3

Where we can help

06Your website-
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What AI tells people about you

Barry Connor Design is an award-winning architectural practice in Spreydon, Christchurch, specialising in projects that challenge the notion of the norm. The studio focuses on bespoke residential work including new homes, renovations and small holiday bach projects, and offers a no-obligation initial project appraisal to discuss fit and scope before work begins.

Barry Connor Design is an award-winning architectural practice based in the Spreydon suburb of Christchurch. The practice describes itself as specialising in projects that require out-of-the-box thinking and that challenge conventional approaches to design.

The studio focuses on bespoke residential architecture: new homes, extensive renovations and smaller bach projects. Services mentioned include design, advice and guidance through processes such as council consent, with an emphasis on creative solutions and tailored outcomes for individual clients.

Clients comment on a collaborative, client-focused experience. Review themes highlight listening, clear communication, and professional project management; customers mention site visits and a hands-on approach during design and construction phases. Projects noted in reviews include luxury homes and practical renovation work that blends contemporary design with functionality.

Locally, Barry Connor Design is distinguished by its willingness to take on unconventional briefs and to work closely with clients from initial appraisal through consent and build phases. The practice offers an initial, no-obligation project appraisal and maintains a small-team approach that customers describe as personable and attentive, making it a known option for Christchurch residents seeking customised residential architecture.

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01Google listingMarketbase business report

Your Google listing

Barry Connor Design shows an above-average health score of 6.2 out of 10 for its Google Business Listing, indicating a generally solid presence with room for small improvements. Key strengths include a claimed listing with verified details, an open-for-business status, a website link, and visible phone number. The description remains modest but functional, with photos contributing to competitive standing.

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
    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.
  • 2
    Category fitYour category set covers less of this market than half the field, so there are jobs being searched for near you that your listing is not eligible to appear in.
  • 3
    Photos on the listingYou have more photos on your listing than half the businesses here, so a customer arriving has enough to look at that they stay on it.
11 checks on your Google listing. You're seeing 6 of them.
6.3Good
What customers seeWhere you rank
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5.0 ★★★★★ (5)
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From the business

Award-winning architectural design practice specialising projects that require out of the box thinking and challenge the notion of “the norm”.

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Your reviews

Barry Connor Design shows a healthy Google review profile with a high star rating and a solid review count. The strongest finding is a top 10% star rating, indicating high customer satisfaction. A key area to address is response rate to reviews, which is currently zero and limits trust signals despite good ratings and reviews.

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

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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.
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    Review confidenceYour rating and your review count together sit ahead of half the field here, so a customer has enough to go on and no reason to hesitate.
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    Review countYour review count sits above the middle of this market, which puts you in the group customers read as established rather than untested.
4 checks on your reviews. You're seeing all of them.
7.8Good
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
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Google reviewsChristchurch architects · 252 businesses
You are #57 for your Google reviews
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Where you show up on the map

Barry Connor Design shows a very high Google Maps health score, at 9.4 out of 10, indicating strong visibility. The top opportunities focus on maintaining aggregate visibility and pushing suburb performance into the top decile. The business already ranks highly for core keywords such as architect and building designer in Spreydon, Hoon Hay, and nearby areas.

Strengths

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    Maps visibility across the city groupThere is no wider Maps reach available to a business at your address - you appear across more of the surrounding suburbs than anyone in this market.

Top opportunity

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    Maps visibility in your own suburbYou show up in local Maps searches more often than nearly every business in your suburb, so a customer searching nearby sees you before most of your competition.
2 checks on your map positions. You're seeing both.
9.3Strong
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
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✓Top three for "architectural designer" in 5 suburbs, seen in 30
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Barry Connor Design15.0 ★ (5) · Architectural designer
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Bob Burnett Architecture4.7 ★ (7) · Architectural designer
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Peter Dunbar Architectural Designer / Gallery1510.0 ★ (0) · Architectural designer
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LM Architectural Builders5.0 ★ (21) · Architectural designer
Map positionsChristchurch architects · 252 businesses
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Where customers find you

Barry Connor Design shows a healthy online presence with a health score of 8.1 out of 10. The strongest results are Instagram and Facebook profiles, both rated very high trust, and a solid LinkedIn listing. The key opportunity is to establish presence on several platforms (TikTok, TikTok Directory, LinkedIn Company, GrabOne, Neighbourly) to broaden reach and trust among wider audiences.

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.
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    Instagram ProfileWe found your Instagram Profile page, and the trail between you and it is unambiguous - it is linked from something you own, or it dominates a search for your name.
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    ArchiPro ProfessionalWe can see your ArchiPro Professional listing (https://archipro.co.nz/barry-connor-design) found via: Google search results.

Top three opportunities

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    Tiktok ProfileWe could not find an active TikTok account for your business, so anyone who looks for you there finds nothing.
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    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.
  • 3
    Neighbourly ProfileWe could not find an active Neighbourly Profile listing for your business, which means anyone checking you there finds nothing and moves on to whoever is listed.
18 checks on your listings and social. You're seeing 6 of them.
8.4Strong
What customers seeWhere you rank
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FacebookbarryconnordesignBarry Connor Design | Facebook✓
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ArchiPro Professionalbarry-connor-designBarry Connor Design | ArchiPro Professional✓
InstagrambarryconnordesignBarry Connor Design | Instagram✓
LinkedInbarry-connor-02684736Barry Connor Design | LinkedIn
TiktokNo account found1
YellowNo listing found2
NeighbourlyNo listing found3
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05Facebook pageMarketbase business report

Your Facebook page

Strengths

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    Where your page link pointsThe link on your page goes to a domain that is yours, so a visitor who came for the photos leaves on your terms and the enquiry lands in your inbox rather than someone else's.
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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.

Top three opportunities

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    What your page says about youYour intro runs to a line, shorter than most pages here, so it names the business without settling whether you do the particular job the reader came about or cover the suburb they live in.
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    Recommendations on your pageYour count sits above the middle of this market, so a visitor reading the page finds enough written by other people to stop needing anything written by you.
  • 3
    People following your pageMore people follow your page than most in this market, which means a post can travel past your own customers when one of them shares it into a local group.
9 checks on your Facebook page. You're seeing 6 of them.
7.4Good
What customers seeWhere you rank
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Facebook pageChristchurch architects · 252 businesses
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Your website

Barry Connor Design shows a healthy on-page SEO health score of 7.9 out of 10, indicating solid technical optimisation. Key strengths include a valid favicon, HTTPS content, no frames, an SEO-friendly URL, and a small page size under 256KB. The most notable opportunities are refining the meta description, adding an H1 tag, and pushing the on-page score toward the elite tier.

Strengths

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    Domain UniquenessYour web address is yours alone, so everything your site earns - links, mentions, search standing - accumulates under your name and stays with the business.
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    FaviconThe tab your site opens in carries your own icon, so a customer with a dozen tabs going can find their way back to you by sight.
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    Page load speedYour home page appears in under three seconds, so someone tapping through from a search result meets your business rather than a blank screen while they decide whether to wait.

Top three opportunities

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    Domain HealthYour site answers, but something did not check out - an insecure link, a redirect chain, a domain shared with other businesses, or a listing pointing at a social page.
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    Meta descriptionThe length of your search summary is close enough now that most people see all of it, so the gain left is in the words: one concrete reason to ring you beats another description of what you do.
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    Pages linking to youMore pages link to you than half the businesses here, so search engines have a reasonable number of routes into your site.
23 checks on your website. You're seeing 6 of them.
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What customers seeWhere you rank
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How people find you on Google

Barry Connor Design shows an above-average health score for website traffic, indicating solid visibility but room for growth. The most important findings are limited paid activity with potential for paid traffic and steady organic performance that can be nudged higher with consistent content and technical tweaks.

Strengths

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

Top three opportunities

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    What you spend on adsWe can see no paid search activity for your site, which in most local markets is the norm rather than a gap.
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    Monthly ad visitsYour site receives no visitors from paid search, which for most local businesses in this market is the norm rather than a problem.
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    Monthly search visitsYour site draws fewer visitors from search than half the businesses here, so competitors are picking up searches you could be answering.
6 checks on your search and traffic. You're seeing 3 of them.
6.9Good
What customers seeWhere you rank
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www.barryconnordesign.co.nzArchitectural Design | Barry Connor Design | New Zealand

Architectural design, renovations and new homes. Connor Design, New Zealand architect. STUDIO: 2 COBHAM STREET, SPREYDON, CHRISTCHURCH PHONE: 021-203-5992. ...

www.barryconnordesign.co.nzArchitectural Design New Zealand

Get in touch with architect Barry Connor in Christchurch. PHONE 021-203-5992 EMAIL [email protected] 2 COBHAM STREET, SPREYDON,CHRISTCHURCH. ARCHITECTURAL ...

3About 65 visits a month from search, across 25 searches
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You are #80 for Google search and traffic
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Your hours against demand

Barry Connor Design's current hours show clear alignment with weekday lunchtime demand: open at peak times on Tuesday 12pm, Wednesday 11-12pm and Thursday 12-1pm, capturing 40 well-aligned peak hours and no low-demand open time. However, significant weekend demand is missed. Opening limited hours on Saturdays around 11am-2pm and offering a Sunday midday appointment slot would likely be commercially worthwhile.

Strengths

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

Top opportunity

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    Hours aligned with demandYour hours line up with demand worse than nearly every business here, which means a good share of your open time passes with nobody looking for what you do.
1 check on your opening hours. You're seeing it.
9.2Strong
What customers seeWhere you rank
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Hours 1
Monday9am-5pm
Tuesday9am-5pm
Wednesday9am-5pm
Thursday9am-5pm
Friday9am-5pm
SaturdayClosed
SundayClosed
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01Google listing3 opportunities

02Reviews3 opportunities

03Map positions1 opportunity

04Listings and social3 opportunities

05Facebook page3 opportunities

06Your website3 opportunities

07Google search and traffic3 opportunities

08Opening hours1 opportunity

Where you'd stand#23of 252 Christchurch architects
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Christchurch architectsOverall · 252 businesses
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