SaaS · Evaluation
Vercel
Compliance Index score
73.6/100 · C
↑ 7.2 pts since last week (66.4 → 73.6)
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
Vercel scores 73.6/C on the Designesy Compliance Index — 20 of 40 checks passed, 6 failed, 10 warned, 1 skipped. The cohort mean is 62.2/D across 30 scored sites. Vercel sits 18% above the cohort mean.
Strongest category: Poise at 100.0%. Weakest scored category: Motion at 37.5%. 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, Vercel improved by 7.2 points — moving from 66.4 to 73.6.
The engine detected only 3 custom properties at :root — tokens are minimal or absent.
This evaluation is deterministic — no LLM, no human judgment, no survey. The same 40-check engine that scored Vercel scores every site on the leaderboard. Re-score vercel.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.
Compared to SaaS peers
Vercel ranks #1 of 6 in the SaaS category.
Cohort context
This site
73.6/100
Cohort mean
62.2/100
Cohort median
62.6/100
Delta from mean
+11.4
Why this site is scored
Frontier reference — Geist design system