Design Systems · Evaluation
zeroheight
Compliance Index score
73.8/100 · C
↑ 5.0 pts since last week (68.8 → 73.8)
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
zeroheight scores 73.8/C on the Designesy Compliance Index — 16 of 40 checks passed, 4 failed, 15 warned, 2 skipped. The cohort mean is 62.2/D across 30 scored sites. zeroheight sits 19% above the cohort mean.
Strongest category: Identity at 100.0%. Weakest scored category: Tokens at 50.0%. 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, zeroheight improved by 5.0 points — moving from 68.8 to 73.8.
The engine detected 134 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 40-check engine that scored zeroheight scores every site on the leaderboard. Re-score zeroheight.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 Design Systems peers
zeroheight ranks #3 of 14 in the Design Systems category.
Cohort context
This site
73.8/100
Cohort mean
62.2/100
Cohort median
62.6/100
Delta from mean
+11.6
Why this site is scored
DTCG 2025.10 incumbent