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Richard Barrett Architect

Architect · Lyttelton, 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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Richard Barrett Architect

Architect · Lyttelton, Christchurch

Where you stand#247of 252 architects
Overall health0.2/10across the eight areas

What you have

01Open statusYour listing shows the business as trading, so customers see accurate availability and Google treats the listing as live.01NameYour 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.01PhoneYour listing carries a phone number, so the call button is live for anyone who finds you on a phone.

Where we can help

03Map positions4.302Reviews3.505Facebook page3.008Opening hours1.704Listings and social1.301Google listing1.007Google search and traffic0.006Your website-
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What AI tells people about you

Richard Barrett Architect is an architectural practice based in Lyttelton. The practice offers architectural design and documentation for local projects, working with clients to develop plans and construction-ready drawings. It operates from Lyttelton and applies professional architectural services suited to the town's context and needs.

Richard Barrett Architect is an architectural practice located in Lyttelton. The practice provides architectural design and documentation, serving local clients and projects within the town and surrounding areas.

Services are focused on architectural design, drawing production and project documentation. The practice works with clients on design development and prepares the technical drawings and specifications that support construction and coordination with builders and consultants.

Clients engage the practice for professional architectural services delivered from a Lyttelton base. Interaction typically involves design meetings, review of drawings and coordination on technical details required to move a project from concept toward construction.

What distinguishes Richard Barrett Architect locally is its established presence in Lyttelton and a service approach centred on producing design documentation and practical architectural outcomes for residential and small-scale projects in the area.

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Your Google listing

Richard Barrett Architect shows a very low overall Google Business Listing health, with clear gaps in most critical fields. Key progress includes a listed phone number, full address and a main image, but important elements like a website link, listing ownership, status, description and logo are missing or incomplete.

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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    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.
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    PhoneYour listing carries a phone number, so the call button is live for anyone who finds you on a phone.

Top three opportunities

  • 1
    ClaimedYour listing is not claimed, which means anyone can suggest an edit to it and you have no way to reply to a review or correct what is shown.
  • 2
    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.
  • 3
    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.
11 checks on your Google listing. You're seeing 6 of them.
1.0Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
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DirectionsCall No website ✓2
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No description yet3
Google listingChristchurch architects · 252 businesses
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Your reviews

Richard Barrett Architect shows a low overall health score on Google Business reviews, indicating room for improvement in customer engagement and rating visibility. Key findings include a very low health score at 1.9/10 and few or no reviews, with no responses yet to customer feedback. Priorities are building credibility with first reviews, improving response rates, and encouraging happy clients to share experiences.

Strengths

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Top three opportunities

  • 1
    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.
  • 2
    Star ratingYou have no star rating yet, so a customer scanning results sees an empty space where every other business shows a number.
  • 3
    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
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
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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

Richard Barrett Architect shows a healthy but mid-range Google Maps presence with a 4.6/10 health score. The top opportunities focus on improving overall aggregate visibility and boosting suburb-specific ranking, with modest gains possible by reinforcing local relevance. Notable top keywords indicate strength in listings for Lyttelton and Christchurch, suggesting continued focus on local relevance.

Strengths

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

Top two opportunities

  • 1
    Maps visibility across the city groupYou turn up across fewer of the surrounding suburbs than half the businesses here, so someone two suburbs over searching for your service is shown your competitors and never sees your name.
  • 2
    Maps visibility in your own suburbYou show up in local Maps searches less often than half your suburb, so on a search from nearby you sit below businesses a customer would otherwise treat as equal.
2 checks on your map positions. You're seeing both.
4.3Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
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Map positionsChristchurch architects · 252 businesses
You are #143 for map positions
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Where customers find you

Richard Barrett Architect shows strong overall health in social presence health score of 0.9 out of 10 indicating very low health, with LinkedIn activity already present contributing to credibility. The most material finding is the absence of active Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, LinkedIn Company, and TikTok Directory profiles that limit local visibility and trust across platforms.

Strengths

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    Cylex ListingWe can see your Cylex Listing listing (https://cylex.co.nz/richard+barrett+architect-18246342) found via: Google search results.

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.
  • 2
    Instagram ProfileWe could not find an active Instagram Profile profile for your business, so a customer who looks for you there finds nothing.
  • 3
    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 4 of them.
1.3Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
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Cylexrichard+barrett+architect-18246342Richard Barrett Architect | Cylex✓
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FacebookNo account found1
InstagramNo account found2
TiktokNo account found3
Listings and socialChristchurch architects · 252 businesses
You are #219 for listings and social
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Your Facebook page

Strengths

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

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
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
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Facebook pageChristchurch architects · 252 businesses
You are #176 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.
  • 2
    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.
-Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
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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
9:41
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Google search and trafficChristchurch architects · 252 businesses
You are #175 for Google search and traffic
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Your hours against demand

Richard Barrett Architect has no published opening hours, so temporal alignment with local demand cannot be measured. Because hours are missing, it is not possible to identify specific times when the practice is open during peak search periods or closed during popular windows. Adding accurate opening hours would allow clear identification of strong alignment, missed opportunities and any inefficient open times.

Strengths

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

Top opportunity

  • 1
    Hours aligned with demandWe could not measure your hours against local demand, which almost always means your listing shows no opening hours at all.
1 check on your opening hours. You're seeing it.
1.7Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
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Hours
No opening hours listed1
Opening hoursChristchurch architects · 252 businesses
You are #210 for opening hours
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The next step

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01Google listing3 opportunities

02Reviews3 opportunities

03Map positions2 opportunities

04Listings and social3 opportunities

05Facebook page1 opportunity

06Your website3 opportunities

08Opening hours1 opportunity

Where you'd stand#247of 252 Christchurch architects
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Christchurch architectsOverall · 252 businesses
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