← The Index / data
Scored by model · 2 samples, median · No human review
Rank 19 of 128 · clearer than 85% of the index, 79% of data · Reviewed 2026-10-12
PlanetScale
planetscale.com
· data
82
GRADE A
BAND 77–87
What their homepage claims
“PlanetScale - the world’s fastest and most scalable cloud hosting for Vitess, Neki, and Postgres Neki, sharded Postgres, is now available. Get started”
What that means
They sell cloud-hosted databases for Vitess, Neki, and Postgres that scale across multiple nodes.
Verdict
The page clearly states what it sells: cloud databases for Vitess, Neki, and Postgres, with concrete product nouns and visible next steps.
What to fix first
Ranked by what each change is worth on the composite — the gap to the next rung of the ladder times the dimension’s weight. Computed from the scores, not written by the model; the model’s sentence under each is the action.
-
1Jargon-free quick win 65 → 80+3
PlanetScale provides fast, managed databases for Vitess, Neki, and Postgres.
-
2Call to action quick win 80 → 95+2.3
Get started with a free trial or signup now.
-
3Proof needs a fact 65 → 80+2.3
Cite concrete performance figures or sourced benchmarks next to named customers.
All three together: 82 → 90. Every dimension one rung up: 90 (grade A). Ceiling is 95.
A plainer headline
None published. The scorer’s suggestion either reused a word the index strikes (platform, solution, system…) or ran past twelve words, and the gate drops those rather than print them. It will try again at the next re-score.
Rewrite pack
Five alternative headlines in five angles, a subhead, a call-to-action line, and a line-by-line edit for each of the five dimensions — written only from facts already on planetscale.com, gated like a rating (anything with a struck word is dropped, not sold). Delivered on a private page in about a minute.
One-off. Receipt and VAT by Paddle, our merchant of record. Refund policy.
Where the score comes from
Five dimensions on one ladder — 5 · 20 · 35 · 50 · 65 · 80 · 95 — weighted clarity 30%, specificity 20%, jargon 20%, proof 15%, call to action 15%. For each: the rung the page matched, the words that drove it, and what would reach the next rung. Full rubric →
Clarity30%
95
Headline names concrete product nouns (Vitess, Neki, Postgres) in ordinary words, establishing the product category clearly.
PlanetScale - the world’s fastest and most scalable cloud hosting for Vitess, Neki, and Postgres
Specificity20%
95
The page includes concrete product references and explicit deployment/products (Postgres, Metal, NVMe, etc.) with measurable elements.
PlanetScale Postgres starts at $5 per month and gives you a fully managed PostgreSQL cluster built for performance and reliability
Jargon-free20%
65
Contains a few marketing terms and abstractions without increasing clarity (e.g., 'cloud hosting', 'scalable').
the world’s fastest and most scalable cloud hosting for Vitess, Neki, and Postgres
Next rungPlanetScale provides fast, managed databases for Vitess, Neki, and Postgres.
Proof15%
65
Named customers and concrete metrics appear (Slack, HubSpot, etc.; p95 benchmarks), though numbers are mostly qualitative.
Slack, HubSpot, Blizzard, Etsy, GitHub, Block, Bloomberg, Yelp, and more.
Next rungCite concrete performance figures or sourced benchmarks next to named customers.
Call to action15%
80
Clear next step present with a direct CTA matching the claim ('Get started').
Get started
Next rungGet started with a free trial or signup now.
Evidence
PlanetScale - the world’s fastest and most scalable cloud hosting for Vitess, Neki, and PostgresIdentifies concrete product nouns and service type.
PlanetScale Postgres starts at $5 per month and gives you a fully managed PostgreSQL cluster built for performance and reliabilityProvides a concrete product offering and price.
Get startedDirect CTA aligning with the product claim.
What the scorer was given first 1,500 characters of the homepage text — check the quotes yourself
PlanetScale - the world’s fastest and most scalable cloud hosting for Vitess, Neki, and Postgres Neki, sharded Postgres, is now available. Get started The world’s fastest and most scalable cloud databases PlanetScale brings you the fastest databases available in the cloud, built for exceptional speed and reliability. For workloads that outgrow a single node, Vitess and Neki, our sharded MySQL and sharded Postgres products, add horizontal scaling, online schema changes, no-downtime upgrades, built-in connection pooling, and more. Our blazing fast NVMe drives unlock unlimited IOPS , bringing data center performance to the cloud. We offer a range of deployment options to cover all of your security and compliance requirements — including bring your own cloud with PlanetScale Managed . PlanetScale powers Tier 0 databases at: Read case study Read blog post Read case study Read case study We chose PlanetScale to host our most demanding Vitess and Postgres workloads, doing millions of queries per second on petabytes of data. – Sualeh Asif - Chief Product Officer @Anysphere (Cursor) Vitess Neki Postgres Vitess allows MySQL databases to scale horizontally through explicit sharding — enabling a shared nothing architecture distributing data across thousands of nodes, all routed through a single database connection. Vitess was developed at YouTube by the founders of PlanetScale to scale their main MySQL database to petabytes of data on 70,000 nodes across 20 data centers. Now maintained a
Terms struck
Get started
How this compares
85%of the index scores lower
+13vs index mean (69)
+11vs data mean (71)
+12vs median (70)
91%of headline words survive
2×independently scored
Strongest: Clarity 95. Weakest: Jargon-free 65. The 2 passes agreed within 0 points. The band 77–87 is where a re-score of this unchanged page would most likely land: on 42 dry re-scores (12 Oct 2026) the median move was 6 points and one in four moved more than 10. A grade only changes when a new score clears the boundary by 5.
Embed this rating
Static SVG. No JavaScript, no tracking.
Provenance
Scored from the live homepage
on 2026-10-12 by gpt-5-nano,
2 independent passes, median taken.
Page snapshot 70fe4f26b4a4.
Rubric 7329c240 (current; what it says).
No person reviewed or edited this score. If the rubric and the score disagree, the rubric wins
and the page is re-scored — not hand-corrected.
Re-scored when the homepage text changes.