What is Revised Score?

One number, several signals

Revised Score rolls the metrics that matter into a single 0–100 grade, so you can compare two listings without weighing four or five separate figures against each other. It's a percentile blend of link-graph centrality, referring domains, and site history, calculated across the entire directory. A 70 on one listing means the same thing as a 70 on another.

The five bands

Every score falls into a graded band, which is what the color of the score circle tells you at a glance: Emerging under 30, Fair 30–49, Good 50–64, Strong 65–79, and Elite at 80 and above. There's no red band, by design. Anything that would grade as genuinely bad is excluded before it reaches the directory, so the bottom of the scale means modest history rather than a warning.

Reading the number

Listings show the score itself, so you can rank them precisely. Read it as a relative position rather than an absolute measurement: a 72 sits above most of the directory on the signals we measure, not at 72 percent of some fixed standard. The inputs update as we re-crawl and re-check, and the percentiles are recalculated across the whole directory when listings arrive or leave, so a score can move a few points without anything about the domain changing. A few points either way is noise; the grade band it falls in is the steadier read.

Why not just use Domain Authority

Third-party authority scores are a reasonable starting point, but they can be stale, they're gameable, and they say nothing about whether a site ever actually existed. Revised Score is calculated from the verification every listing goes through, including archive continuity, which no off-the-shelf authority metric accounts for. See what we verify for the full list, or Domain Authority explained for how the third-party scores work.