Evidence health · Living benchmark

54% of active benchmark criteria have a direct source link.

Catalogue growth is easy to count. Evidence depth is the more important number. Across 121 active products, 1,734 of 3,201 scored criterion rows currently resolve to at least one direct source URL. This report rebuilds from the published dataset and makes the remaining work visible.

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Direct criterion-level source linkage

Evidence depth differs materially by product category

Panels61%

51 products

Batteries59%

28 products

Inverters44%

34 products

Plug-in ESS24%

8 products

Chart data

Series	Value	Note
Panels	61%	51 products
Batteries	59%	28 products
Inverters	44%	34 products
Plug-in ESS	24%	8 products

How to read the percentage

Source linkage is an audit measure, not a quality score

1. 01
   Directly linked

   1,734 criteria publish at least one criterion-level URL in the scorecard audit trail.

2. 02
   Still unlinked

   1,467 criteria may be estimated, derived, not found or sourced in prose without a direct criterion URL.

3. 03
   Product score

   Unaffected. Adding a URL does not alter the criterion value or score unless the underlying evidence changes the fact.

4. 04
   Research order

   Risk-led. Australian buyer priorities, weak categories, safety issues and high-impact warranty claims receive attention first.

Category health

What this number can and cannot say

A direct link makes a claim auditable. It does not automatically make the claim current, exact-model, primary or correctly interpreted. Those questions remain visible in each audit row's evidence state, regional overlay and source note. Conversely, a low linkage percentage does not mean the product is poor; it means the publication has more verification work to do before presenting the record with high confidence.

The next research queue

Work is prioritised where evidence gaps can change a purchasing decision: current Australian products, safety notices, warranty scope, model identity, grid compatibility and criteria with large scoring weight. This prevents raw catalogue expansion from outrunning the publication's ability to defend what it publishes.

Sources and methodliving dataset

• The active panel, battery, inverter and plug-in ESS scorecards.
• Published methodology, including evidence-status and missing-data rules.
• Publication governance and corrections policy.

Coverage values are generated at build time from public audit rows. They are descriptive publication-health measures and never feed a product score.