How the gate works
This tool grades an old page to decide whether it's worth refreshing. It scores 6 weighted controls into a 0–100 number — then a gate that can only make the verdict worse.
The 6 weighted controls
A publish-blocker at 0 or 1 — no business value, no fix feasibility, or an accuracy/safety problem — forces REWRITE OR RETIRE regardless of the refresh score. A high-traffic page you can't make accurate or safe isn't a refresh candidate; it's a liability.
Why: Traffic decay, search opportunity, and update value are all maxed — the refresh score is 80, which reads REFRESH NOW. But accuracy & safety is at 0 (a publish-blocker): the page is built on stale, wrong claims. The gate forces REWRITE OR RETIRE — you can't refresh outdated statistics into accuracy, you rebuild or retire.
A high score didn’t save it. The score is context; the gate is the answer — and it names the one thing to fix first. Your own inputs, scored offline. Grades the page, not the author.