Editorial · Evaluation
The New York Times
Compliance Index score
66/100 · D
↑ 5.1 pts since last week (60.9 → 66)
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 66/D on the Designesy Compliance Index — 11 of 40 checks passed, 4 failed, 20 warned, 2 skipped. The cohort mean is 62.2/D across 30 scored sites. The New York Times sits 6% 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 5.1 points — moving from 60.9 to 66.
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 40-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 (40 checks, 14 weighted categories). Re-scored weekly via GitHub Action.
Cohort context
This site
66/100
Cohort mean
62.2/100
Cohort median
62.6/100
Delta from mean
+3.8
Why this site is scored
Editorial typography — Cadence rules origin