Scoring System
TextScore uses a three-tier system to make your results instantly readable. Green means good. Yellow means room to improve. Red means fix this before posting.
Every metric in your report gets assigned one of three tiers: Good, Fair, or Poor. The thresholds differ by metric - a "good" readability score uses different numbers than a "good" spam score. But the color system stays consistent across all of them, so you can scan your report at a glance and know where to focus.
The Three Tiers
Your content follows best practices for this metric. It is unlikely to trigger platform restrictions or reduce your reach. Green scores mean you can post with confidence on this front.
- Content reads naturally and meets platform expectations
- No patterns that automated filters would flag
- No changes needed for this metric
Your content has some issues, but nothing critical. These scores point to areas where small changes could boost your content's performance. Review the flagged items and decide if they are worth fixing.
- Minor patterns that some platforms might notice
- Your content will likely still reach your audience, but not at full potential
- Worth reviewing, especially if reach and distribution matter to you
Your content has serious issues for this metric. Red scores indicate problems that you should address before publishing. These patterns are the ones most likely to trigger platform filters, reduce distribution, or cause your content to be suppressed entirely.
- Strong signals that automated systems act on
- High risk of reduced reach or content suppression
- Fix these items before posting
How Tiers Map to Your Report
The Overall Score
Your overall score is a weighted combination of all individual metric scores. Metrics with higher impact on content distribution carry more weight. A single red metric does not automatically make your overall score red - but it pulls the average down.
Per-Metric Scores
Each metric in your report shows its own tier independently. You might have green readability, yellow sentiment, and red spam filter scores all in the same report. This granularity helps you prioritize. Fix the red items first, then work on yellow.
What the Colors Tell You at a Glance
- All green: Your content is ready to post. Low risk across the board.
- Mostly green, some yellow: Generally safe. Review the yellow items if you want to optimize further.
- Mixed yellow and red: Your content needs work. Start with the red items.
- Mostly red: Major rewrite recommended. Multiple signals point to high risk of content suppression.
Why Thresholds Differ by Metric
A "good" readability score means a Flesch score of 60 or higher. A "good" passive voice score means less than 10% of sentences are passive. These numbers come from different scales and measure different things. The tier system normalizes them into one consistent visual language so you do not need to memorize each metric's scale.
Check the individual metric pages for the exact thresholds. Each metric page explains what numbers map to green, yellow, and red for that specific check.