Design Systems · Evaluation
Material 3
Compliance Index score
67.6/100 · D
= flat since last week
Per-category breakdown
Each category is scored independently. The cohort average shows how this site compares to the 30-site cohort in each dimension.
Evaluation
Material 3 scores 67.6/D on the Designesy Compliance Index — 7 of 42 checks passed, 2 failed, 12 warned, 18 skipped. The cohort mean is 69.3/D across 30 scored sites. Material 3 sits 2% below the cohort mean.
Strongest category: Identity at 75.0%. Weakest scored category: Interaction at 0.0%. The gap between best and worst is the finding — most systems are strong in one dimension and absent in another.
The engine detected 158 custom properties at :root — a rich token layer. The question is whether those tokens are structured (primitive → semantic → component) or flat.
This evaluation is deterministic — no LLM, no human judgment, no survey. The same 42-check engine that scored Material 3 scores every site on the leaderboard. Re-score m3.material.io live to see if anything has changed since 2026-08-03.
Scored 2026-08-03 against contract v0.4.0 (42 checks, 14 weighted categories). Re-scored weekly via GitHub Action.
Compared to Design Systems peers
Material 3 ranks #8 of 14 in the Design Systems category.
Cohort context
This site
67.6/100
Cohort mean
69.3/100
Cohort median
70.0/100
Delta from mean
-1.7
Why this site is scored
MotionScheme + Sound — closest to designesy combo