Scoring model
01How the score is calculated
score = weighted earned points / applicable points × 100
- Verified / pass earns full points for that check.
- Partial / warn earns a calibrated fraction.
- Failed earns zero — there are no free 40–70 floors.
- Optional absent (e.g. hreflang on a single-locale page) is not scored — excluded from the denominator.
- Unknown multi-source signals (robots.txt crawl, CrUX, GSC) reduce evidence coverage, not free points.
Categories
02What gets scored
- Technical · on-page · content evidence · E-E-A-T / trust
- Social / share · structured data · answer extractability · UX / perf proxies
Critical caps
03Where scores are intentionally limited
- noindex → overall max 35
- Non-200 status → overall max 25
- Missing title → overall max 40
- Missing H1 → overall max 50
- Thin main content → overall max 45
- Single-page HTML inspection → overall max 88 (90+ reserved for multi-source evidence)
- Low evidence coverage further caps displayed excellence
Three numbers
04Every result reports three honest numbers
- Score / grade — conversion-style readiness of on-page evidence.
- Evidence coverage — how much of the intended checklist was measurable.
- Confidence — measurement confidence, not "your SEO is good".
What this does not mean
05Explicit limitations
- Not Google rankings or traffic forecasts.
- JSON-LD presence is partial credit only — not a rich-result guarantee.
- Script/CSS counts are performance proxies, not LCP/INP/CLS.
- Grade scale matches other LoudScale diagnostics (A rare; no A+).