Understanding your site health score

The overall score is a weighted roll-up of five category scores. Treat it as a progress tracker, not a grade.

Reading the number

• 90 to 100 — in good shape. Re-scan after each deploy to keep it there.
• 60 to 89 — workable, with clear wins in the list.
• Below 60 — several problems are actively costing you visitors.

Why it moves in big jumps

Severity weighting is not linear. Fixing one critical issue can move a category by nearly thirty points, while clearing five minor ones might move it three. That is intentional: it reflects the real difference in impact.

If your score barely moved after an afternoon of work, check whether you fixed minor findings and left a critical one in place.

What to fix first, in order

1. Anything blocking indexing. A stray noindex makes every other SEO fix pointless.
2. Missing titles and meta descriptions. Highest impact per minute of effort, every time.
3. Form labels and alt text. Cheap to fix, and the findings that turn into legal letters.
4. HTTPS and mixed content. Browsers actively warn visitors about these.
5. One h1 per page, headings in order. Structural, and it helps both crawlers and screen readers.
6. Contrast. Usually a one-line change per instance.
7. Performance. Real, but the smallest weight, and often the most work.

Comparing across time

The score is computed the same way every run, so it is comparable between scans of the same page. It is *not* meaningfully comparable between different pages of different sites, because page purpose changes which findings apply.