Cassian Score™
The single 0–100 health metric that summarises everything Cassian monitors about your store.
Cassian Score™
The alerts are the product — Cassian™ tells you the moment something is wrong. The Cassian Score™ is the summary statistic that sits behind them: a single 0–100 figure that captures how healthy your store is overall, across up to five layers — technical health, content quality, translation quality, platform consistency, and LLM readiness.
What's wrong right now always outranks how healthy overall. But the score gives you the trend line: when it goes up, something got better. When it goes down, Cassian has found something worth your attention — and it will tell you exactly what.
You'll see your Cassian Score front and centre on your dashboard, recalculated after every scan.
What the number means
Your score sits in one of three ranges, each with a specific meaning:
80–100 — Your store is in great shape.
The fundamentals are solid. Cassian may surface minor improvements, but nothing urgent. Keep an eye on the Issues page and check back after your next scan.
60–79 — Performing well. A few things to watch.
Your store is functional and mostly healthy, but there are issues worth resolving. Work through the Issues page by severity — Critical and High issues first.
Below 60 — Needs attention. Here's what matters most.
There are meaningful problems affecting your store's health, visibility, or consistency. The Issues page lists everything, ranked by impact. Start at the top.
The score is calculated fresh on every scan. On paid plans, you can trigger a manual scan from the Sites page after fixing an issue to see your updated score without waiting for the next scheduled scan. The free Inspector plan runs scheduled scans only.
The five layers
Your Cassian Score is built from up to five weighted layers. Each layer measures a different aspect of your store's health:
| Layer | Weight | What it checks |
|---|---|---|
| Technical Health | 30% | Broken links, meta titles and descriptions, canonical tags, heading structure, image alt text, mixed content, performance signals |
| Content Quality | 25% | Spelling and grammar, thin descriptions, duplicates, missing product images |
| Translation Quality | 20% | Missing translations, machine translation artifacts, variant coverage |
| Platform Consistency | 15% | Your platform backend (Shopify, WooCommerce, BigCommerce) vs what your storefront actually shows |
| LLM Readiness | 10% | Structured data (Product, Organisation, Breadcrumb schema), AI shopping readiness, content extractability |
Technical Health carries the most weight — a significant drop there will move your overall score more than an equivalent drop in LLM Readiness. That's intentional: the technical foundation underpins everything else.
Not every layer is active on every store. Translation Quality is only included when your store has translations. Platform Consistency requires a paid plan with a connected platform. Whenever a layer is inactive, the remaining layers are reweighted so they still total 100%.
Where to go from here
How the Score is Calculated
A detailed breakdown of every check in each of the five layers, with explanations of what's measured and why.
Improving Your Score
Specific, actionable steps to raise your score — ordered by impact, starting with the highest-leverage fixes.
Score History & Trends
How to read your score trend, compare scans, and understand what's driving changes over time.
Common questions
Can the score ever reach 100? Yes. A perfect 100 means Cassian found zero issues across all active layers during that scan. It's genuinely achievable with a well-maintained store.
Why did my score drop when I didn't change anything? A few possibilities: Cassian may have crawled pages it hadn't reached before, your store content may have been updated by a team member, or a previously minor issue may have worsened (for example, a broken link that was borderline is now firmly broken). The Issues page will show newly detected issues.
Does the score account for my tier? Yes — the layers that are scored depend on your plan. The free Inspector plan scores three layers: Technical Health, Content Quality, and LLM Readiness. Paid plans add Platform Consistency, plus Translation Quality when your store has translations. Whenever fewer than five layers are active, the weights are renormalised so the active layers total 100%. Higher tiers also crawl more pages, which can surface issues that weren't visible before.
What's the difference between a score deduction and an issue? Issues are the individual findings Cassian surfaces. Each issue has a severity level — Critical, High, Medium, Low, or Info — and that severity determines how much it contributes to the score deduction. Critical issues deduct the most; Info issues are advisory and deduct nothing.
How often does my score update? Your score is recalculated after every scan. Scans run on a schedule based on your tier, and paid plans can also trigger a manual scan at any time from the Sites page.