When you check with an Acrolinx Integration, you get an Acrolinx Score. The Acrolinx Score is a standardized score out of 100 that reflects the average of all goal scores. The higher the score, the higher the quality of the content.

Content scores help you quantify a document's quality and compare it with other documents. The Acrolinx Score reflects the overall quality of your content with a score between 1 and 100. You also get scores for how well you meet each of your goals, such as Correctness or Tone. The overall Acrolinx Score is simply an average of the scores for each goal you've set.

The Acrolinx Scorecard displays the Acrolinx Score and the goal scores with colored bars. These colors show the range of acceptability of the Acrolinx Score and the goal scores respectively. The color coding is as simple as a traffic light, so you can quickly see how you scored.

The scores can have one of three colors:

You can configure if a goal counts toward the score. This helps writers prioritize issues, and it might be important if you use the Acrolinx Score as a quality gateway. When you create a Target, all goals are required by default. You can also set a goal to recommended, which means Acrolinx will show guidance for it but it won’t count toward your score.

To set a goal to Required or Recommended, follow these steps:

Suppose you want your writers to deliver content that is grammatically correct and has no spelling issues. You aren't as strict about consistency, but some tips for writing consistently might be helpful. In this case, you'd create a Target with the goals Correctness and Consistency, and set Consistency to Recommended. Your writers will see the consistency issues, but these issues won't affect the Acrolinx Score.