The score
The score on the dashboard is a quick way to see how much of your content is free of the problems the scan looks for.
How it is worked out
Section titled “How it is worked out”The score is the share of checked articles, modules, menu items and categories that have no open problem, out of 100.
For example, a scan checks 40 items and finds problems in 10 of them. 30 of 40 are free of problems, so the score is 75. It doesn’t matter whether an item has one problem or five: it counts as one item with problems until all of them are fixed.
Why it rises as you work
Section titled “Why it rises as you work”Accepted fixes count straight away. When you fix the last problem in an article, that article counts as free of problems, and the score rises, without a new scan. Undoing a fix opens the problem again, and the score goes down.
Fixing one image in each of ten articles moves the score more than fixing ten images in one article. To raise it quickly, start with the articles that have only one or two problems.
The trend
Section titled “The trend”After a few scans, a bar chart under the score ring shows the score over recent scans, oldest first. The client report (Pro) shows the score at the start and end of the month and the score on each day the site was scanned.
The score of a scan can go down even when you have fixed things, for example when new content with new problems was added since. The open problems on the dashboard tell you what to look at.
What it does not tell you
Section titled “What it does not tell you”- It covers only what the scan checks. The page check (Sa11y) is not part of the score, and neither is anything a person has to judge, such as whether alt text describes an image well.
- 100 doesn’t mean the site meets a standard. It means the scan found no open problem in the content it checks. An automated check finds only part of what a full audit covers.