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

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#47046: Site Health: Remove grading
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 Reporter:  Cybr            |       Owner:  (none)
     Type:  enhancement     |      Status:  new
 Priority:  high            |   Milestone:  Future Release
Component:  Administration  |     Version:  trunk
 Severity:  normal          |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  site-health     |     Focuses:  ui, administration
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Comment (by DavidAnderson):

 >  yet Google has not removed the score from that tool.

 @earnjam That's because it works *for Google*. Google aren't (directly) a
 web hosting company, or site developers. All the pain is outsourced. They
 strong-arm people into making all the changes they want, by the over-
 simplification. Sites get faster overall, even if there's plenty of wasted
 man-hours on the way - the man-hours are wasted by people other than
 Google. Site owners respond to simplifications even when those
 simplifications are wrong.  That works better *for Google* than nuanced
 information.

 Witness the same thing with the over-simplified "Your non-https site is
 insecure, you're doomed!" warnings in Google Chrome, strong-arming lots of
 people who don't really need SSL for their use sites into getting it, or
 if not, having to discuss with their website developer what the pluses and
 minuses of it were. Again, the blunt instrument works *for Google* to
 achieve what they wanted from the ideological view they were coming from
 (more SSL everywhere possible). And again, all the problems that he over-
 simplification caused were out-sourced to others.

 Think also of the recent "Chrome gets auto-logged in when you log into a
 Google website" furore recently. Google act in the best interests of
 Google, not of the end user. End users have to make informed, intelligent
 choices to make sure that their own interests are being advanced. WP
 should not ape Google's way of working or use it as a model to emulate.

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