About SiteScope

SiteScope started with a simple frustration: the open web has become hard to read at a glance. Two domains can look identical at first sight (the same modern type, the same friendly hero image, the same checkout flow) and have wildly different relationships with their visitors. One is a long-running, well-staffed business with clear policies and meaningful customer support. The other is a thin reseller storefront that will quietly disappear in three months. Most search results don't tell you which is which, and the sites themselves have no incentive to.

So we built SiteScope to publish the kind of audit you'd run yourself if you had the time. For every domain in our catalog, we collect the structural signals (DNS, TLS, registration metadata, age, ranking) and then have a human editor compare what we found against category-specific expectations. The result is a single trust score on a 0–100 scale, plus a written audit explaining what we saw and where the trade-offs are.

What we publish

Every audit page on SiteScope contains the same five things: a headline trust score, a one-line summary, a fact panel of structural signals, a long-form editorial section, and a list of related reviews. We do this consistently because consistency is what makes comparison possible. If you've read three of our audits, you know how to read all of them.

What we don't do

We don't take payment from the sites we review, we don't accept guest posts, and we don't run sponsored audits. The closest thing we have to monetization is contextual advertising in clearly-marked slots, which never influences which domains we audit or how we score them. If a site is poorly scored on SiteScope, no advertiser relationship will change that.

Who is this for?

Three audiences in particular: shoppers trying to decide whether a checkout is safe, researchers and journalists looking for a quick second opinion on a domain, and curious readers who want to understand how the web they use every day actually holds together. If you fall into any of those buckets, you're in the right place.

How to read a SiteScope audit

The trust score at the top of every audit is a composite, not a verdict. A site rated 88 is not "twice as safe" as a site rated 44. It sits in a different band, with different recommended use cases. Treat the score as a prior, then read the editorial section to understand what we saw and decide whether the trade-offs match your needs. If you want the full mechanics, our methodology page walks through how the score is constructed, sub-signal by sub-signal.

Have a site you'd like us to audit? Get in touch.