The BA Score™ Standard
Dogfood Digital LLC is building the BA Score™ Standard, a published scoring standard for small-business website health, accessibility first. We will publish it once we have scanned 15,000 sites. This page is the honest status of that work today.
Current status — read this first
The scoring machinery behind the BA Score™ exists today and is versioned internally, the same way the scan engine itself is versioned. What does not exist yet is a set of calibrated thresholds. Turning raw scan output into a calibrated score requires a minimum real-scan observation period of at least 14 days.
Until that observation period has run its course, there are no published threshold values. A versioned standard document exists and is unpublished; it publishes once we have scanned 15,000 sites, not when the observation period ends. A whitepaper draft exists and is unpublished; it accompanies the BA Score™ Standard at 15,000 sites scanned. Unpublished is not "does not exist," and it is not "in development, not available."
Public scans are running. The live count of sites scored is on the Scan Clock. The standard publishes when 15,000 sites have been scanned, with an accompanying whitepaper.
So far, only 4 of 785 sites scored pass every one of our automated accessibility checks on their home page (as of 2026-11-05). Those checks cover part of WCAG 2.1 and 2.2, mostly level AA; passing them is not a full audit or a certification.
No third-party before-to-after delta has been measured or published; the rebuilds we have measured are our own properties, and owned dogfood is not a cross-customer corpus. This page is a status and methodology surface — not a live score, not a third-party gallery, and not a certification.
What you can rely on today
- Every scan identifies itself transparently — see DFD-ScanBot for exactly how.
- A site's
robots.txtis honored before any page on that site is requested. - Scoring is tied to a versioned scan engine, so any number the standard eventually produces can be traced back to the exact code that produced it.
- Before/after claims will only ever come from measured scans of that same site — never a projection or estimate presented as if it were a measurement.
Data practices
For how scan data is collected, how long it is kept, and how a site owner can opt out, see the DFD-ScanBot page. That page, not this one, is the source of record for data practices.
What's coming
This is the direction of the work, not a schedule:
- The published BA Score™ Standard, at 15,000 sites scanned, with an accompanying whitepaper.
- Calibrated thresholds, developed only after a real observation window of actual scans has run.
- A public methodology, so the standard can be checked rather than taken on faith.
Scope, honestly stated
Nothing on this page is a claim about any specific business's score — no business, named or unnamed, is scored here. This page describes the state of a standard under construction, and nothing more.
Contact
Dogfood Digital LLC
Email: onboard@dogfooddigital.com
Call our AI intake line: 561-485-1968. It is an AI voice agent, and it tells you so at the start of every call. Email onboard@dogfooddigital.com reaches us too.