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| − | # Server location | + | # [[#Server location|Server location]] |
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This is not so, the popularity icons, the "little people" that are displayed next to the Site Name are an indicator of how many WOT users have rated the website. | This is not so, the popularity icons, the "little people" that are displayed next to the Site Name are an indicator of how many WOT users have rated the website. | ||
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| + | ===Rank=== | ||
| + | A scorecard ranking is measured by the popularity of a website as visited by WOT users. | ||
| + | Many sites will have an N/A (not applicable) as their rank, if your site may fall into this ranking, don't worry about it, you're part of the majority. This is merely a demographic display and an entertaining one as well. You can view the top ten highest ranked websites by visiting the [http://www.mywot.com/community Community page] or to see more, simply open up an empty scorecard URL: http://www.mywot.com/scorecard As of this writing, Google.com is ranked at number one. | ||
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| + | ===Owner=== | ||
| + | The owner information is provided with a whois ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WHOIS wikipedia]) courtesy link. Currently, the service of choice is with [http://whois.domaintools.com/ whois.domaintools.com] | ||
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| + | ===Server location=== | ||
| + | [[File:wot_scorecard_flag.png|thumb|right|Server location]] | ||
| + | For easy visual reference, mini country flags are displayed, along with their two letter [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Country_code country code], to give you an idea of the location of the web server that the website is hosted on. The example image shows mywot.com which is hosted in Finland and google.com which is hosted in the United States. | ||
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Revision as of 03:28, 19 September 2009
The scorecard contains everything you need to know about a website, domain name, or IP.
Contents
Scorecard colors
To help bridge across language barriers, colors are used for immediate identification of the overall trustworthiness (safety) of a website. The color range is:
| Reputation | Color and symbol | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Excellent |  = dark green
|
This site has a good reputation and the community considers it a safe and pleasant experience. |
| Good |  = light green
| |
| Unsatisfactory |  = yellow
|
Cautionary advisory, unsatisfactory or mixed ratings. |
| Poor |  = orange
|
This site has a poor reputation and the add-on will bring up the warning screen, or blocking screen, when settings are at their default values. If you choose to proceed, do so with a high amount of care and concern; you have been warned. |
| Very poor |  = red
| |
| Unrated |  = grey
|
There are not enough ratings to compute a reputation for this website, as referenced by the example scorecard provided |
Scorecard components
The scorecard consists of several components that dynamically retrieves the information presented to you. A quick list of these components are as follows:
- Thumbnail
- Help view
- Site name
- Popularity
- Rank
- Owner
- Server location
- Statistics
- Wiki
- Description
- Tags
- Reputation rating
- Trustworthiness
- Vendor reliability
- Privacy
- Child safety
- Comments by category
- Comment: Add / Request
- Comment: listing
Thumbnail
The thumbnail is a captured image of the index page of a website. The purpose is to help visually identify the site in revue. The image may be clear or it may be out of focus depending upon the rating level of the Child Safety indicator. When there are poor to very poor ratings for child safety, the image is blurred to prevent viewing of possible pornographic material. The provided image displays both clear and blurred areas for example. This image is updated every 60 days. If you've changed your site design and notice a conflict, don't worry WOT will catch up in due time.
Help view
Clicking on Help View, located at the upper right corner of the Scorecard, brings up an image offering some explanation to various areas of interest such as:
- Popularity
- Server location
- Compete.com statistics
- Description
- Tags
The help view also offers hints to reputation ratings as well as mentioning about the confidence indicators.
Site name
Self-explanatory, the Site Name is the domain name or IP address of the website being rated. This also includes sub domains, for example: subdomain.examle.com.
The Scorecard URL generally incorporates the site name, but in certain cases it does not.
Twitter profiles may be rated in WOT and are given special names for URLs, while the site name remains for scorecard display. For example: twitter.com/Web_of_Trust scorecard's URL is:
http://www.mywot.com/scorecard/_p_k5swex3pmzpvi4tvon2a.twitter.com
Popularity
Popularity is often confused with a site's overal monthly hit rate.
This is not so, the popularity icons, the "little people" that are displayed next to the Site Name are an indicator of how many WOT users have rated the website.
Rank
A scorecard ranking is measured by the popularity of a website as visited by WOT users.
Many sites will have an N/A (not applicable) as their rank, if your site may fall into this ranking, don't worry about it, you're part of the majority. This is merely a demographic display and an entertaining one as well. You can view the top ten highest ranked websites by visiting the Community page or to see more, simply open up an empty scorecard URL: http://www.mywot.com/scorecard As of this writing, Google.com is ranked at number one.
Owner
The owner information is provided with a whois (wikipedia) courtesy link. Currently, the service of choice is with whois.domaintools.com
Server location
For easy visual reference, mini country flags are displayed, along with their two letter country code, to give you an idea of the location of the web server that the website is hosted on. The example image shows mywot.com which is hosted in Finland and google.com which is hosted in the United States.
