--- title: "Category score: definition and formula · Specoria" description: "The same formula inside one of the five categories: access, product data, policies and trust, consistency, action." source_url: "https://specoria.com/glossary/category-score/" lang: "en" --- GLOSSARY Score model v2.6 · last reviewed October 8, 2026 # Category score: definition and formula The same formula inside one of the five categories: access, product data, policies and trust, consistency, action. ## Definition A category with nothing measured shows no number. ## Formula `category score = round(100 × Σ (weight × credit) ÷ Σ weight) over the category’s measured checks` ## The five categories and their checks Each category score uses only its own checks. Weights are from score model v2.6; a store’s checks add up to 100. - **Access** (weight 25): [Search and user agents allowed (robots.txt)](https://specoria.com/method/checks/bots-search/), [Is bot protection open to agents?](https://specoria.com/method/checks/waf-access/), [Product name and price readable without JavaScript](https://specoria.com/method/checks/no-js/), [Sitemap](https://specoria.com/method/checks/sitemap/), [Can the product page be indexed?](https://specoria.com/method/checks/indexable/) - **Product data** (weight 25): [Product structured data (schema.org)](https://specoria.com/method/checks/product-schema/), [Price, currency, availability and URL](https://specoria.com/method/checks/offer-complete/), [Product identity (GTIN/MPN, brand, SKU)](https://specoria.com/method/checks/product-identity/), [Images and description](https://specoria.com/method/checks/product-media/), [Reviews and rating](https://specoria.com/method/checks/reviews/), [Can variants (size, color) be addressed?](https://specoria.com/method/checks/variants/) - **Policies and trust** (weight 20): [Machine-readable return policy](https://specoria.com/method/checks/returns-machine/), [Returns page and window](https://specoria.com/method/checks/returns-human/), [Machine-readable shipping information](https://specoria.com/method/checks/shipping-machine/), [Shipping cost and time on the page](https://specoria.com/method/checks/shipping-human/), [Business identity](https://specoria.com/method/checks/org-identity/), [Legal pages (distance selling, Türkiye)](https://specoria.com/method/checks/legal-pages/) - **Consistency** (weight 15): [Price consistency](https://specoria.com/method/checks/price-match/), [Stock consistency](https://specoria.com/method/checks/stock-match/), [Currency and language](https://specoria.com/method/checks/market-match/), [Return window consistency](https://specoria.com/method/checks/policy-match/), [Taxes-included wording](https://specoria.com/method/checks/price-transparency/) - **Action (cart and orders)** (weight 15): [Add-to-cart button in the initial HTML](https://specoria.com/method/checks/add-to-cart/), [Is the cart button accessible?](https://specoria.com/method/checks/cart-accessible/), [Buying without an account](https://specoria.com/method/checks/guest-checkout/), [Order tracking](https://specoria.com/method/checks/order-tracking/), [Site search that works by URL](https://specoria.com/method/checks/site-search/) ## How to read it Each category score is the weighted share of that category’s measured checks, from 0 to 100. Categories carry different total weights (see the list above), so the overall score is not their plain average: a category with more measured weight moves it more. Category scores are not capped. A store with a critical blocker can show a high category score next to an overall score held at 45 or lower; that gap is the cap at work ([Critical blocker](https://specoria.com/glossary/critical-blocker/)). On hotel and service sites, the sector checks sit in the same five categories, and store-only checks leave them as not applicable. ## What it does not tell you - Much, when few checks were measured: a category with one measured check rests on that one result. Look at how many of its checks we could measure. - Zero: a category with nothing measured shows no number, which is not the same as a score of 0. - How much an assistant cares about a category: the weights are ours, published in the [method](https://specoria.com/method/). ## What moves it - Fixing the failed or partly passed checks of that category; the heavier the check, the more it moves the category. - Getting more of its checks measured. In the action category, guest checkout is never measured in the free test, so that category rests on its other checks. - The [Priority order](https://specoria.com/glossary/priority-order/) order ranks fixes across all five categories. ## Related terms Readiness score (free test): How 27 checks on your public pages become one number from 0 to 100. - [Agent readiness score](https://specoria.com/glossary/readiness-score/) - [Check result and credit](https://specoria.com/glossary/check-credit/) - [Couldn’t check](https://specoria.com/glossary/#not-verifiable) - [Not applicable](https://specoria.com/glossary/#not-applicable) - [Insufficient measurement](https://specoria.com/glossary/insufficient-measurement/) - [Critical blocker](https://specoria.com/glossary/critical-blocker/) - [Readiness level](https://specoria.com/glossary/readiness-level/) - [Priority order](https://specoria.com/glossary/priority-order/) - [Potential score](https://specoria.com/glossary/potential-score/) [Run the free test →](https://specoria.com/#contact)[All terms in the glossary →](https://specoria.com/glossary/)