How We Count Our Numbers
This page defines every statistic SiteCandor publishes about itself. Below you will find what goes into each number, what is left out, and how often it is worked out again — so if one ever looks wrong, this is what you hold us to.
The Three Rules Behind Every Number Here
Nothing is ever faked. No number on this site starts anywhere but zero, and none of them has ever been set by hand.
Nothing is ever padded. We do not round up, estimate, or extrapolate. If our database says 37, this site says 37 or says nothing at all.
Small numbers are labelled as small. Below 100 audits we say plainly that we are new rather than dressing a small figure up as scale.
Every Number, Defined Exactly
Audits Run
A straight count of every audit we have run and stored — free audits and Pro's monthly audits alike. If the same site is checked three times, that is three audits, because each one was real work. The count only ever goes up when an audit actually finishes.
Average Overall Score
The average of the out-of-100 score across every audit we have stored — the same score your own report shows. Low scores are included, repeat scans are included, and nothing is left out to flatter the average. We show it to one decimal place at most.
Most Common Failed Check
For every website we have ever scanned we look at its most recent audit only, and count which single check failed on the most websites. We count each website once, so scanning one site fifty times cannot tip the result. A check that did not apply to a site — looking for images on a page that has none — is left out rather than counted as a failure.
Sites Blocking Automated Readers
Of the websites we have checked, the share that turn away at least one of the 7 automated readers we look for: GPTBot, ClaudeBot, anthropic-ai, Google-Extended, PerplexityBot, CCBot and Bytespider. Most of these are robots that fetch pages; Google-Extended is a permission Google reads rather than a robot that fetches. Either way it is a different set from the assistants we ask questions of further down this page. We read the site’s own robots.txt to find out. Sites where we could not tell are left out of the count entirely rather than assumed one way or the other. Turning these tools away can be a perfectly deliberate choice; this number says how common it is, not that it is wrong.
How Fresh, and What Can Go Stale
These numbers are worked out again once a day, and wherever we show one we show the date it was last worked out beside it. If that ever fails, we keep showing yesterday’s real numbers rather than anything invented. If we cannot read them at all, we show none — you will never see a made-up figure on this site.
Spot a Number That Looks Wrong?
Tell us, and we will fix either the number or the explanation — whichever of the two is lying. Every page has a Contact link in the footer.