How the Current Audit Score Works
The score summarizes checks actually run on the analyzed priority-page scope. It is not a whole-site health grade or a forecast of rankings, traffic, indexing, rich results, or AI citations.
Scoring Formula
A dimension enters the score only when the report records checksRun > 0. An assessed dimension starts at 100, and each finding deducts points based on severity. Repeated findings from the same rule family are deducted once. Base weights are normalized across assessed dimensions only; unassessed dimensions are excluded rather than treated as 100.
With both current dimensions assessed, their equal 15% base weights normalize to a 50/50 contribution. Current report surfaces label each included dimension with the number of checks run; this avoids confusing an assessed pass with a check that never ran.
Severity Levels
Each finding is assigned a severity that determines how many points it deducts from its dimension score.
| Severity | Deduction | Product Effort Default |
|---|---|---|
| CRITICAL | -15 pts | ~30 min |
| HIGH | -8 pts | ~20 min |
| MEDIUM | -4 pts | ~10 min |
| LOW | -2 pts | ~5 min |
These fixed minute values are MendMySEO ordering defaults, not measured customer or industry benchmarks. Actual implementation time depends on the site, stack, access, and reviewer.
Grade Scale
Current Scored Dimensions
The current rule set scores Technical SEO and On-Page SEO when their checks actually run. Lighthouse checks are conditional on the API returning the corresponding measurement. Each Lighthouse value is from a single mobile lab run and is not field performance data.
Technical SEO
15% base weightReports directly observed transport, mobile-viewport, and available mobile Lighthouse lab measurements. It does not forecast rankings or field performance.
Checks (5)
- Whether the captured homepage URL uses HTTPS
- Viewport meta-tag presence on each analyzed page
- Mobile Lighthouse performance score, when returned (finding below 50)
- Mobile Lighthouse LCP, when returned (finding above 4.0 seconds)
- Mobile Lighthouse CLS, when returned (finding above 0.25)
On-Page SEO
15% base weightChecks one required document-level fact that the crawler can establish from the captured HTML without inferring query intent or search outcomes.
Checks (1)
- Non-empty <title> text on each analyzed page
Not score-bearing in the current rule set
Site Structure, Content Quality, Keywords, Links & Schema are excluded from the current score, not treated as passing. The crawler does not infer page intent, legal applicability, site-wide orphan status, keyword performance, or content quality from generic thresholds.
Repair Queue Priority
After scoring, all findings are ranked into a repair queue using this formula: (severity_weight × deduction) / effort_minutes. This sorts current findings by their product-score deduction and product-default implementation effort; it does not estimate actual delivery time or external SEO impact.
| Severity | Weight | Deduction | Example Priority |
|---|---|---|---|
| CRITICAL | 4 | 15 | (4 × 15) / 30 = 2.0 |
| HIGH | 3 | 8 | (3 × 8) / 20 = 1.2 |
| MEDIUM | 2 | 4 | (2 × 4) / 10 = 0.8 |
| LOW | 1 | 2 | (1 × 2) / 5 = 0.4 |
See It in Action
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