[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #47046: Site Health: Remove grading

[WordPress Trac]

#47046: Site Health: Remove grading
----------------------------+---------------------------------
 Reporter:  Cybr            |       Owner:  (none)
     Type:  enhancement     |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal          |   Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  Administration  |     Version:  trunk
 Severity:  normal          |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  site-health     |     Focuses:  ui, administration
----------------------------+---------------------------------

Comment (by DavidAnderson):

 This Trac ticket is about removing the grading and percentage score; it'd
 be best if other concerns are put in other tickets to make it manageable
 and focussed.

 The percentage score and grading should be removed for at least two
 reasons:

 1) Plenty of users don’t know how to interpret that kind of thing, and who
 have the sorts of obsessive personalities that can’t cope with it. They’ll
 believe that they absolutely must score 100%, and they’ll waste phenomenal
 numbers of man-hours of their own, of their hosting company, their site
 developer, of their plugin authors, to drive it up to 100%. (Site
 developers will respond by creating new plugins to hide it, fake it,
 exclude certain tests, etc.).

 2) It’s bogus. There’s no objective, scientific way of producing a score
 on a 0-100 range for “site health”. It does not have an objective meaning,
 and will give a false sense of health to those who score highly.

 A % score here in something like this is a way of reducing something
 complex and requiring skill to understand into something simple that
 everybody can understand. But sometimes, that's the wrong thing to do;
 it's done by being arbitrary and creating entirely new classes of knock-on
 problems elsewhere.

-- 
Ticket URL: <https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/47046#comment:8>
WordPress Trac <https://core.trac.wordpress.org/>
WordPress publishing platform