hotelgrader
METHODOLOGY · V1 · UPDATED JULY 2026

How the grade is built.

Every hotel gets the same 46 metrics, from the same 38 public sources, weighted the same way. Nothing to connect, nothing to buy, nothing to argue with.

The scale

A Top tier 90–100 / 100
B Above market 80–89 / 100
C At market 65–79 / 100
D Below market 45–64 / 100
F Significantly below 0–44 / 100

The overall score is the weighted sum of seven section scores. Plus and minus grades mark the top and bottom thirds of each band.

The seven sections

WEIGHTS SUM TO 100
01

GEO & AI Visibility

AI mention rate across ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Copilot. Answer panels.

Prompts run against ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and Copilot · mention rate · answer-panel coverage · citation quality

20%
OF GRADE
02

Website & Digital Presence

Site speed, mobile experience, search visibility, structured data.

Core Web Vitals · mobile experience · structured data · indexation · your brand’s search page

18%
OF GRADE
03

Reputation Management

Review velocity, sentiment, response rate, score parity across platforms.

Review velocity · rating parity across platforms · response rate and lag · guest sentiment

16%
OF GRADE
04

Social Media

Cadence, engagement, content performance against the comp set.

Posting cadence · engagement rate vs comp set · content mix · profile completeness

10%
OF GRADE
05

Advertising & Brand

Paid efficiency, brand-search defense, share of voice.

Brand-search defense · OTA ad pressure on your name · share of voice · ad-library presence

12%
OF GRADE
06

Booking & Distribution

Direct funnel, OTA mix, metasearch visibility, rate presentation.

Booking-flow friction · rate presentation · OTA mix · metasearch visibility

14%
OF GRADE
07

Competitive Intelligence

Rank, momentum, and gaps against the properties you actually lose bookings to.

Rank vs comp set · 90-day momentum · overlap in AI and search results · gap analysis

10%
OF GRADE

38 sources, all public

We read what travelers can read. No PMS connection, no login, no data you have to hand over. If a source is down during your scan, the report says so.

AI engines

ChatGPT · Gemini · Perplexity · Copilot

Search

Google · Bing · answer panels · brand SERPs

Reviews

Google · TripAdvisor · Booking.com · Expedia

Social

Instagram · Facebook · TikTok

Advertising

Google Ads transparency · Meta Ad Library

Performance

Lighthouse · Chrome UX Report · booking-flow crawl

Your comp set

Up to 74 comparable hotels, matched on market, segment, and size. You are ranked against properties a traveler would actually weigh against yours, not a national average.

Cadence

A scan takes about thirty seconds. Grades refresh monthly, and every report carries its scan date and source count, so two people can compare notes.

Independence

Grades cannot be bought, sponsored, or appealed away. We sell the dashboard that helps you fix what the grade found, never the grade itself. We don’t sell your data, and we take no referral fees from OTAs.

See it applied to your hotel.

FREE · NO CREDIT CARD · 30-SECOND ANALYSIS