Sitemorse calculates scores, based on assessments across User Experience, Search Engine Optimisation and Governance, Risk and Compliance.
The score is calculated as follows:
- 36% weighting to Links
- 26% weighting to Performance
- 20% weighting to Accessibility
- 18% weighting to Quality
Also, the following additions and subtractions are made:
- If the "first page metadata" test is failed, 0.25 is subtracted.
- For each of the Broadband and Fast Broadband
"first page timings" tests, 0.1 is subtracted for each "fail".
Example overall Sitemorse score calculation
This is how an overall score would be calculated for an example website
| Category | Assessment Results | Individual Score | Weighting |
|---|---|---|---|
| Links | < 0.040 problems per page | 6/10 | + 6 x 36% (2.16) |
| Quality | < 7 problems per page | 7/10 | + 7 x 18% (1.26) |
| Performance |
< 1,100ms
>= 270/sec |
7/10 | + 7 x 26% (1.82) |
| Accessibility |
>= 60% of pages pass A >= 5% of pages pass AA |
4/10 | + 4 x 20% (0.80) |
| Metadata | First page FAIL | -0.25 | |
| Broadband Speed Test | First page FAIL | -0.1 | |
| Fast Broadband Speed Test | First page FAIL | -0.1 |
Individual Scores
A summary of how all the individual scores are calculated.
| Benchmark Score |
Links (per page) |
Quality (per page) |
Respose Time (miliseconds) |
Download Speed (kilobytes/sec) |
Compliant pages |
Failing words |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | 0 | < 0.8 | < 100 | >= 270 | 100% | < 2% |
| 9 | < 0.010 | < 2 | < 150 | >= 210 | >= 94% | < 2.8% |
| 8 | < 0.018 | < 4.5 | < 225 | >= 150 | >= 80% | < 3.45% |
| 7 | < 0.030 | < 7 | < 350 | >= 120 | >= 60% | < 3.85% |
| 6 | < 0.040 | < 10 | < 500 | >= 96 | >= 50% | < 4% |
| 5 | < 0.075 | < 13 | < 700 | >= 72 | >= 40% | < 4.5% |
| 4 | < 0.090 | < 20 | < 900 | >= 48 | >= 27% | < 5% |
| 3 | < 0.150 | < 30 | < 1,100 | >= 30 | >= 15% | < 5.5% |
| 2 | < 0.200 | < 50 | < 1,300 | >= 18 | >= 10% | < 7% |
| 1 | < 0.250 | < 100 | < 1,500 | >= 6 | >= 5% | < 10% |
| 0 | >= 0.250 | >= 100 | < 1,500 | < 6 | < 5% | >= 10% |