Website readiness of Wellington kitchen designers: the data.
We audited 27 kitchen designers’ websites in Wellington. The average historical rules-v1.0 website-readiness score is 69/100. Under that ruleset, 0% triggered its crawler check and 26% had no detected structured data. These are technical observations, not proof of current AI recommendations; the crawler figure requires a v2 re-scan under the current taxonomy.
avg score
69/100
historical crawler flag
0%
no structured data
26%
JS-only content
4%
As of July 2026, the average rules-v1.0 website-readiness score of 27 audited kitchen designers’ websites in Wellington, New Zealand is 69 out of 100. 0% of the audited sites triggered the historical rules-v1.0 crawler check; that figure must be re-scanned before it is interpreted using the current v2 crawler taxonomy. 26% publish no detected structured data identifying their business, 4% appear to omit main content from the initial HTML, and 74% show no visible review/update date. These are observable website signals, not proof of current AI recommendations. The businesses were drawn from Google’s local results for kitchen designer services in Wellington, where the average Google rating is 4.8 stars with a median of 18 reviews. Source: Surfaced audit dataset, n=27, July 2026. Method: surfaced.co.nz/methodology.
What are Wellington kitchen designers getting wrong?
74% show no visible review/update date
The fix: On time-sensitive pages, display a maintained review date so readers can assess currency.
26% have no structured data at all
The fix: Add LocalBusiness JSON-LD so AI engines can identify the business, its services and its area.
4% appear to rely on JavaScript for main content
The fix: Put the key service and location content in the initial HTML so it does not depend on a later rendering stage.
0% triggered the historical rules-v1.0 crawler check
The fix: Run the current v2 check before changing robots.txt. It separates discovery, user-fetch, training and model-control crawlers, then shows the exact rule evidence for the checked page.
Why does this matter for a kitchen designer in Wellington?
This benchmark shows common access, initial-HTML, structured-data and content signals across the sampled websites. It does not show which Wellington businesses are named for “a good kitchen designer near me”, or whether fixing one signal changes an answer. Repeated monitoring across engines is required for those claims.
The pages AI cites for kitchen designers in Wellington
Our July 2026 study of 225 NZ AI answers recorded which sources the engines cited; these are the roundup pages we captured from those sources for kitchen designers in Wellington (2 in total).
10best.co.nz
10 Best Kitchen Renovation Companies in Wellington (2026) — Reviewed & Rankedlists 10 businesses
top5.nz
Best Kitchen Renovators in Wellington | Top 5 Ranked 2026 | Costs, Timelines & Reviewslists 10 businesses
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Compare: the historical rules-v1.0 category average for kitchen designers is 68/100 across 385 sites.
How does your current site look under rules v2?
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Check my siteLast updated July 2026 · based on 27 audited websites from 30 local listings · methodology · aggregates only — no individual business is named without consent