Check Statuses

Each individual check resolves to one of five statuses.

Status	Meaning	Counts toward score?
pass	Criterion fully met	Yes - full point
warn	Partially met or best-practice gap	Yes - half point
fail	Criterion not met	Yes - zero points
info	Informational only; absence is not a problem	No
skip	Could not be evaluated	No

Scoring behaviour

Only pass, warn, and fail are scoreable. Checks with status info or skip are excluded from the denominator when calculating layer scores, so they do not penalise the result.

scoreable    = checks where status is not "skip" or "info"
layer_score  = (passes + warns × 0.5) / count(scoreable) × 100

When info is used

info is used when the absence of a signal is not inherently problematic. Examples:

• waf-detected returns info when no WAF headers are detected, because unknown CDNs may still be in use - a clean result is not meaningful.
• rss-feed returns info when no feed is found, because not all site types benefit from RSS.
• All Layer 4 checks return info on absence - these reward early adopters but do not penalise sites that haven’t adopted them yet.

When skip is used

skip is returned when a check cannot be evaluated. For example, schema-type is only emitted when JSON-LD is present - if json-ld-present fails, schema-type is skipped rather than failed.