ShieldUp – Bad Bots, Scrapers, Attackers

How ShieldUp – Bad Bots, Scrapers, Attackers's 53/100 breaks down

ShieldUp – Bad Bots, Scrapers, Attackers's overall score of 53/100 is a mid-tier result — the listing is functional but multiple categories have headroom, computed as the weighted average of 6 category checks. The spread is highly polarized across categories — 2 categories score above the headline number and 4 score below. The strongest category is Title Optimization (100/100, +47 vs overall); the weakest is Languages (0/100), a 53-point gap below the headline score — the largest single lever. Top three by score: Title Optimization (100), Categories & Discoverability (63), Description & Content (50).

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