Coverage Score

What the score measures

The coverage score is a composite measure of how well your content is structured for the topic ContentGrapher detected. It has two components.

The first component (60% of the score) measures concept integration quality: the ratio of your observed concepts that are fully integrated — well explained, consistently named, and connected to related ideas — to the total number of concepts ContentGrapher identified in your content.

The second component (40% of the score) measures diagnostic question coverage: how many of the 8 structural questions ContentGrapher asks about your primary topic are answerable from your content. These questions probe whether your page explains what the topic is, how it works, what it depends on, what it produces, who interacts with it, what its constraints are, what alternatives exist, and what a grounding example looks like.

A score of 74% means your content's combination of integration quality and diagnostic coverage reaches 74% of the maximum on these two dimensions.

The explanation framework is a separate measure

In Phase 2, ContentGrapher also builds an explanation framework for your topic and audience: the complete set of concepts that should exist on a page like this, with each concept classified as essential, important, or useful. This framework is what generates the writing brief — the gap between what you have and what should be there.

The explanation framework gap is displayed in the writing brief sections (toAdd, toClarify, toMakeExplicit). It is a different measure from the coverage score.

The coverage score reflects the structural quality of what is already in your content. The framework gap reflects what is missing compared to an ideal page for your specific topic and audience. The score tells you where you are. The writing brief tells you what to do next.

How integration state and question coverage work

A concept is well_integrated when it is named consistently, explained at sufficient depth, and connected to related concepts explicitly. Three other states indicate partial or incomplete coverage: weakly_integrated (present but not fully explained), underexplained (named but lacks depth), and naming_inconsistent (the concept appears under different terms across the page).

Only well_integrated concepts contribute to the 60% integration component of the score. The 40% question coverage component is independent: it measures whether the 8 diagnostic questions about your primary topic are answerable from the content, regardless of how many total concepts you have.

What the score does not measure

The coverage score is not an SEO score. It does not measure keyword frequency, readability, word count, or competitor alignment.

It does not measure whether your content is accurate, engaging, or well-written. You can reach a high score with technically correct but poorly written prose.

It does not benchmark against other pages. ContentGrapher derives its analysis from your topic and audience, not from what currently ranks.

A score of 100% means structural completeness as ContentGrapher's model defines it for this topic and audience. It does not guarantee citation — domain authority, publication, and indexing are outside the model.

How to use the score

Use it directionally, not as a target. The goal is not 100% — it is a measurable improvement in the gaps that matter most for your audience.

Track the score across re-analyses using the delta view. A score moving from 58% to 79% after addressing the top writing brief items is a meaningful signal. A score stuck at 58% after revisions means the revisions did not address the structural gaps ContentGrapher identified.