A category assessment is not the raw crawl number
Treat a health score as a summary that points to underlying checks, not a replacement for them. A higher total can coexist with a serious defect on a small set of commercially important pages.
A website health assessment can combine multiple supported measures, including crawl evidence and user-experience metrics. The underlying units and eligibility rules matter. A high crawl result does not establish that every other component is healthy or even measured.
A worked example
A hypothetical report shows a crawl audit of 94 while its full Site Health assessment is 90. Before declaring a discrepancy, inspect the other eligible KPI bands and target configuration. If those inputs explain the result, the two numbers serve different purposes rather than contradict each other.
How to apply it
- Read the category’s KPI rubric, period, targets and evidence-availability rules.
- Compare each component with its raw source rather than selecting the most favorable metric.
- Verify that category and Intelligence views use the same current assessment.
What the result can establish
SharkBlade’s Site Health category should match its Intelligence category under the same eligible rubric. Raw crawl evidence remains inspectable. A score is useful when a reviewer can trace it to supported inputs; it should not conceal unavailable field measurements or imply a ranking guarantee.
Reference: Google: Core Web Vitals.
Supporting documentation
Google: Core Web VitalsGoogle: hiring an SEOGoogle: technical requirements