Criteria Colors

Optional, without provider ratings

Criteria colors are off by default. You can enable them in the matrix. Each color refers exclusively to the corresponding goal explained below. Meeting a criterion does not mean that a provider is safe, trustworthy or suitable for you overall.

There is no overall grade, no scores, weights or rankings, and no sorting by quality. Results are not added up into a provider rating. Which functions you need depends on your use case; additional functions are not automatically an advantage.

What the colors mean

✓Met

Green: The stored value meets the explicitly stated goal of this criterion.

◐Partially met

Yellow: The stored value describes a specifically defined partial scope or an additional setting that is needed.

✗Not met

Red: The stored value does not meet this individual goal. This is not a negative overall rating of the provider.

=Neutral

Neutral: There is no mapping, no usable value or no unambiguous evidence. It means neither met nor not met.

Binary criteria only map to met or not met. A yellow intermediate level is not invented. Missing or disputed information remains neutral for these criteria too.

Source quality stays separate

A provider statement (claimed) can meet an individual goal according to its raw value. It still remains a provider statement and does not become independent evidence (confirmed) through a green color. The same raw value gets the same criterion color for claimed and confirmed; confidence, sources and retrieval dates stay separate.

For unknown or disputed, the criterion color stays neutral even when a value is stored. Colors replace neither reading the sources nor your own checks. The scope, platform, configuration and date of evidence can limit what it establishes.

Missing does not mean false

A missing data point, null, undefined, an empty string or a whitespace-only string does not mean false. Unknown enum values, mismatched data types and criteria without a classification stay neutral. An explicit boolean false can, however, mean not met for a mapped functional goal. Free text is not interpreted, and values are not converted into other types.

Prices, countries, company names, ownership structures, server counts and other information without a generally defined direction deliberately stay neutral. Functions not listed here and free-text fields also receive no color. Neutral says nothing about a provider's quality.

Current Mappings

This list is generated directly from the same rules as the criteria colors. Each goal states its limitations. Mappings apply only to claimed or confirmed; all other values and unknown or disputed receive neutral. The order follows the criteria catalog, not a weighting.

Quotation marks indicate exact enum strings. true and false without quotation marks are booleans. Similar words, different spellings or the strings "true" and "false" are not treated as equivalent.