Performance Level Score
On the dashboard, you will see an emoji face and a percentage score summarizing how your site is doing from a maintenance/performance standpoint. We calculate this score based on a few key statistics. It is not comprehensive or a perfect evaluation of how you are doing, but we hope this gives you some perspective on your site and encourages you to keep it up to date.
| Characteristic | Description | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Originating Featured Article Currency | 100% minus the number of days since most recent article created on the site and featured to the home page (no lower than zero) |
| 2 | Featured Article Currency | The same as #1, but for any article featured to the home page. If the most recent article was created on the site, this score will be the same as #1. |
| 3 | People With Bios | The percentage of published people with bios. |
| 4 | People With Photos | The same but for people with photos. |
| 5 | Broken links | A count of the broken links detected on the site by our CHSSWeb link checker. This is not updated in real time. |
To calculate the score, we average the scores for one through four, then subtract the broken link count.
We put the scoring system in place to help you identify weak spots in your sites so that you can improve them. We recognize that these scores do not measure quality and that we could have chosen other scores to include in the system.
We also recognize that it is possible to game the system. You can change the publication dates on your old articles, for instance, to bump up your article currency scores. Or you can add new default images for faculty for whom you have no images. If you find yourself doing these things, you might pause to ask why these scores are so important to you that you would undermine the quality of your site just to boost your scores.
Compare Your Site to Similar Sites
Also on the dashboard, you will see an accordion item labeled "Site Performance". If you open that accordion, you will see your site compared to similar sites. If your site represents a department, you will see other departments. If you represent a center, you will see other centers. And so forth.
