What is the free Local Lead Grader and how do I share a grade?

How to grade a website

1. Open /grader. You can also use the Free Grader link in the top bar of these pages.
2. Type the address into the box marked business-website.com. It works with or without https://.
3. Click Grade It Free. The button is greyed out until you have typed at least 4 characters, and it reads Grading Live… while the checks run.
4. Read the grade card that appears below.

What the grade card shows

• A large letter from A+ down to F, on a colour that goes green, lime, amber, orange, red.
• The website address as the heading. The grader has no business name box, so the card is titled with the address you typed, without the https://.
• Lead Grade: with the score out of 100.
• Either a count such as 4 of 12 checks failing, or Every check passed. Rare.
• Every one of the 12 checks, each with a green tick if it passed or the points it cost if it failed.

How to share a grade

Two controls sit under the card.

• Share This Grade copies the link to your clipboard and changes to Link Copied ✓ for 2 seconds.
• Open share page opens the same grade in a new tab.

The share page shows the heading The Local Lead Grader, the website address, and the same grade card, this time with the date it was graded next to the score. Under it is a Grade Your Own Website Free button that brings the reader back to the grader, and below that the line Every check runs live at grading time. Nothing is estimated.

A link whose code does not exist, for example one that was mistyped or cut short in an email, shows This grade is no longer available.

Good to know

The checks run at the moment you press the button, so a grade is a snapshot of that day. Grade the site again later to show a business what has and has not changed. Under your own card the page ends with an invitation to Find Failing Businesses Near You, which opens the Legiit Leads home page.