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How scoring works

THE RULES THE NUMBER FOLLOWS · NEVER RETROACTIVE

Three pillars, fixed weights

Your score is built from three pillars, always weighted the same way: SEO 40% · AI Visibility 35% · Security 25%. The weights are printed on every report so you always know how the number is made. There is no design or aesthetics scoring — design quality depends on what a site is for, and we don't pretend to measure it.

Deterministic — same site, same score

Every scored check is mechanical: a check passes, partially passes, or fails based on what our scanner actually observed (your DNS records, your page's HTML, your response headers). Scan the same unchanged site twice and you get the same number. No judgment calls, no AI opinion inside the score.

What's shown but never scored

Some of the most interesting parts of the report are deliberately kept out of the number, because they come from AI models or third-party data that can vary:

  • The AI memory test — we show you a model's verbatim answer about your business. One narrow exception is scored: when three independent asks all agree a business is stably unknown to AI, that single deduction appears as its own labeled row in the AI section, so the math on screen always adds up.
  • Keyword ideas — suggested search terms are model-proposed ideas, not measured search volume. Whether your pages cover them is measured (against your scanned text), but none of it moves the score.
  • Backlink counts — third-party data, shown raw, never scored.

Grades are calibrated, and never change retroactively

Grade boundaries were calibrated against 40+ real sites so that a competent-but-imperfect site lands around C+/B−, and only genuinely neglected sites land at D/F. Every scan is stamped with the scoring rules it ran under; when we improve the rules, published scores never change — only new scans use the new rules.

What we can't see

We scan publicly available pages only. If a site blocks our scanner or is unreachable, we say so and don't pretend to score it. Security specifics are shown only to verified domain owners — a stranger can't use your report as an attack map.

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