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Don Donnithorne Architects

Architect · Christchurch Centre, Christchurch

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

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Checked12 October 2026
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Don Donnithorne Architects

Architect · Christchurch Centre, Christchurch

Where you stand#208of 252 architects
Overall health1.8/10across the eight areas
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What AI tells people about you

Don Donnithorne Architects is an architectural practice based in Christchurch Central City at 57 Hawdon Street. The firm provides architectural design and project work for local clients, operating from a central Christchurch office and a PO Box in the city. Contact details include a landline and street address for in-person or phone enquiries.

Don Donnithorne Architects is an architectural practice located on Hawdon Street in Christchurch Central City. The office address is 57 Hawdon Street, Christchurch 8023, with a PO Box 2934 for correspondence. The practice identifies itself in the Christchurch city centre and lists contact details for phone and mail.

The practice offers architectural services consistent with its category as architects. From the information provided, the firm presents itself as a Christchurch-based architectural office available to local clients. Publicly listed contact points include a business telephone number and postal address for enquiries and project communication.

Customers seeking contact can find the practice at the central city address or use the listed PO Box for written correspondence. The presence of a street address and a landline suggests an established local office where clients can make enquiries by phone or post. No additional service specialisations or project types are specified in the available source material.

Don Donnithorne Architects is distinguished locally by its central Christchurch location and clear contact information. The practice operates from a known city-centre address, making it accessible to clients in Christchurch. Practical details such as the Hawdon Street office and PO Box provide straightforward ways for customers and project partners to connect with the firm.

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01Google listingMarketbase business report

Your Google listing

Don Donnithorne Architects shows a below-average health score on Google Business Listing at 3.6 out of 10, with room for improvement in description, logo and photos. It already has a website link, claimed status, a listed phone number, and open/closed status, which support basic customer access but do not offset the overall listing gaps.

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

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    Description lengthThere is no real description on your listing, so when someone finds you on Google there is nothing in your own words telling them what you do.
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    LogoYour listing has no logo, so in a list of local results yours is the one with a blank space where every competitor has a mark.
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    Photos on the listingYou have fewer photos than nearly every business here, so a customer comparing you against them builds a picture of their work and guesses at yours.
11 checks on your Google listing. You're seeing 6 of them.
3.4Room to grow
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Google listingChristchurch architects · 252 businesses
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02ReviewsMarketbase business report

Your reviews

Don Donnithorne Architects shows a low overall health on Google Business reviews, with 1.8 out of 10. This indicates potential customers may be cautious about engaging. The two most impactful findings are the lack of reviews and no owner responses to existing reviews, which together limit trust and visibility.

Strengths

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Top three opportunities

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    Review confidenceYour rating and your review count together put you at the bottom of this market - either the rating is low, or there are too few reviews behind it for anyone to trust it.
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    Star ratingYou have no star rating yet, so a customer scanning results sees an empty space where every other business shows a number.
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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.
4 checks on your reviews. You're seeing 3 of them.
3.5Room to grow
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Google reviewsChristchurch architects · 252 businesses
You are #163 for your Google reviews
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Where you show up on the map

Don Donnithorne Architects shows a very low overall health in Google Maps searches, with a 0.9 out of 10. This means visibility is limited but not absent. Top opportunities focus on improving aggregate visibility and ensuring the suburb/borough address aligns with maps queries to boost local relevance for Christchurch clients.

Strengths

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Top two opportunities

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    Maps visibility across the city groupYou appear in a handful of Maps searches across the suburbs around you, far fewer than most businesses here.
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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.
1.0Room to grow
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1Seen in 3 searches across Christchurch, top three in none
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Don Donnithorne Architects2Further down, below the first results
Map positionsChristchurch architects · 252 businesses
You are #227 for map positions
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Where customers find you

The health of Don Donnithorne Architects' citations and social presence is very low at 0.4 out of 10, indicating limited third-party presence. The most important findings are the missing active profiles on Instagram and Facebook, and an absence of a LinkedIn presence. Building these profiles will improve local visibility and customer trust by ensuring consistency across key platforms.

Strengths

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

Top three opportunities

  • 1
    Having a Facebook page at allWe could not find an active Facebook Profile page for your business, so anyone who goes there to check your hours, read your posts or send a message lands on nothing.
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    Instagram ProfileWe could not find an active Instagram Profile profile for your business, so a customer who looks for you there finds nothing.
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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.
18 checks on your listings and social. You're seeing 3 of them.
0.3Room to grow
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FacebookNo account found1
InstagramNo account found2
TiktokNo account found3
YellowNo listing found
NeighbourlyNo listing found
Listings and socialChristchurch architects · 252 businesses
You are #244 for listings and social
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Your Facebook page

Strengths

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Top opportunity

  • 1
    Facebook pageCriticalWe could not find an active Facebook Profile page for your business, so anyone who goes there to check your hours, read your posts or send a message lands on nothing. Shown at a typical score for this market.
9 checks on your Facebook page. You're seeing 1 of them.
3.0Room to grow
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Facebook pageChristchurch architects · 252 businesses
You are #176 for your Facebook page
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Your website

Don Donnithorne Architects shows a below-average on-page SEO health with a 3.6/10. The site has a valid favicon, HTTPS content, frames not used, an SEO-friendly URL, and a page size under 256KB, indicating solid technical basics. The two most notable findings are missing meta description and a need to optimise the title tag length, which currently falls outside the ideal range.

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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    Meta descriptionYour pages carry no summary line of your own, so the two lines under your name in search results are whatever Google decides best fits the search.
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    Separate sites linking to youOnly a handful of separate websites link to yours, well behind most of this market.
  • 3
    The shape of your link profileYour links are piled onto a small number of sites for a profile this size, so they are doing less for you than the count suggests.
23 checks on your website. You're seeing 6 of them.
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How people find you on Google

Don Donnithorne Architects shows a moderate overall health score for Website Traffic, indicating room for improvement. The most important findings are that paid traffic is not yet measurable and paid spend is unclear, while organic traffic is above the bottom quartile and shows potential if keyword refinement and navigation are improved.

Strengths

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Top three opportunities

  • 1
    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.
  • 2
    Monthly search visitsYour site draws fewer visitors from search than most businesses here, so most people looking for what you do are landing somewhere else.
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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.
6 checks on your search and traffic. You're seeing 3 of them.
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2About 7 visits a month from search, across 8 searches
Google search and trafficChristchurch architects · 252 businesses
You are #139 for Google search and traffic
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Your hours against demand

Don Donnithorne Architects' published hours show a partial match with local demand: weekday lunchtime hours on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday align with peak search times, but the practice is closed during the busiest weekend midday period. Total weekly open hours cover 40 peak hours, yet 65 popular hours are missed. No low-demand open hours were identified, so inefficiency from unnecessary open times is not evident.

Strengths

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Top opportunity

  • 1
    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.
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Monday8:30am-5pm
Tuesday8:30am-5pm
Wednesday8:30am-5pm
Thursday8:30am-5pm
Friday8:30am-5pm
SaturdayClosed
SundayClosed
Opening hoursChristchurch architects · 252 businesses
You are #22 for opening hours
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The next step

Your top opportunities, in one place.

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01Google listing3 opportunities

02Reviews3 opportunities

03Map positions2 opportunities

04Listings and social3 opportunities

05Facebook page1 opportunity

06Your website3 opportunities

07Google search and traffic3 opportunities

08Opening hours1 opportunity

Where you'd stand#208of 252 Christchurch architects
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Christchurch architectsOverall · 252 businesses
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