Editorial · Evaluation
The New York Times
Compliance Index score
75.8/100 · C
↑ 1.1 pts since last week (74.7 → 75.8)
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
The New York Times scores 75.8/C on the Designesy Compliance Index — 12 of 42 checks passed, 2 failed, 11 warned, 14 skipped. The cohort mean is 69.3/D across 30 scored sites. The New York Times sits 9% above the cohort mean.
Strongest category: Interaction at 100.0%. Weakest scored category: Tokens at 25.0%. The gap between best and worst is the finding — most systems are strong in one dimension and absent in another.
Since last week's score, The New York Times improved by 1.1 points — moving from 74.7 to 75.8.
The engine detected 85 custom properties at :root — a modest token layer.
This evaluation is deterministic — no LLM, no human judgment, no survey. The same 42-check engine that scored The New York Times scores every site on the leaderboard. Re-score nytimes.com 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.
Cohort context
This site
75.8/100
Cohort mean
69.3/100
Cohort median
70.0/100
Delta from mean
+6.5
Why this site is scored
Editorial typography — Cadence rules origin