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Site Scoring More Responsive

May 6, 2024: Score Calculations Refined for Quicker Positive Change

Updated over 6 months ago

Another client suggestion in action!

Did you see an uptick in your site scores across the board?

Previously, we used several 'buckets' to calculate page scores, which required a little more work on your end to see progress in your scores. We have removed those buckets and are now calculating so your corrections result in a positive numerical change when even one issue type is corrected (once you get under 20 issues on a page).

While our full scoring calculation is proprietary, we wanted to share this one variable in the scoring with you to explain this update.

Previous calculation for an individual page's score :

  • 0 issues =100

  • 1-5 issues = 75

  • 6-10 issues = 50

  • 10+ issues = 0

New calculation of a page's score:

  • 0 issues = 100

  • 1 issue = 95

  • 2 issues = 90

  • 3 issues = 85

  • 4 issues = 80

  • ... continuing to subtract 5 from the score ... until reaching

  • 20+ issues = 0

We have purposely accounted for changes to ensure that there is no negative impact on scoring with the change.

An issue is the type of problem that has been flagged on a page. For example, if a page has 7 images, all missing alt tags, it counts as 1 issue.

Here's an example of a site's scores before and after our scoring change:

Before:

Site dashboard with scores using the previous formula. Scores for Overall at 86%, Accessibility at 75/100, Broken Links is 99/100, Web Governance is 74/100, Best Practices is at 99/100, Spell Check at 90/100 and SEO is 78/100.

After:

Site dashboard with scores using the new formula. Scores for Overall at 94%, Accessibility at 90/100, Broken Links at 99/100, Web Governance at 94/100, Best Practices at 99/100, Spell Check at 96/100, and SEO at 92/100. Note that there has been no change in the number of pages scanned or the number of issues found.

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