Digital Karma
Digital Karma is a transparent, auditable trust and readiness score for websites and digital properties. It measures how reliably a site presents itself to humans, search engines, and AI systems using verifiable signals, structured data, activity, and technical health.
How scoring works
Digital Karma v5.0 uses a published configuration file (/data/karma-config.json) that defines scoring signals and weights. Scores are calculated client-side to ensure visibility, portability, and independent verification.
Top Karma Listings
Rendered live from listings.json. No server-side manipulation or hidden ordering.
Why Digital Karma Matters
Modern visibility is no longer determined solely by traditional rankings. AI systems, recommendation engines, and agent-driven platforms evaluate trust, consistency, and technical clarity before surfacing or citing a site. Digital Karma provides a shared, inspectable signal that represents how ready a property is to participate in this environment.
Transparent by Design
Every signal used in Digital Karma is declared, weighted, and reviewable. There are no proprietary black boxes — what you see is what is measured.
AI-Readable
Scores and supporting data are structured to be consumed by AI systems, crawlers, and agents while remaining understandable to humans.
Operationally Useful
Digital Karma highlights gaps in structure, activity, and trust so improvements can be made deliberately rather than reactively.
Understanding Your Score
Digital Karma v5.0 is composed of multiple weighted signals that reflect both human-facing quality and machine-facing clarity:
- Structure: Technical soundness, schema presence, metadata clarity, and predictable file architecture
- Presence: Signals that confirm the site exists consistently across the web and within its declared ecosystem
- Activity: Evidence of maintenance, updates, and lifecycle awareness rather than static abandonment
- Verification: Ownership signals, declared relationships, and cross-reference consistency
Improving Your Digital Karma
Digital Karma is not gamified and cannot be inflated artificially. Improvements come from making a site clearer, healthier, and more trustworthy:
- Listings & Presence Alignment strengthens consistency and verification
- Reputation & Trust Signals reinforce external confidence indicators
- Structure & Content Refinement improves clarity for both humans and machines