Ranking Score Explained
Hi there, thanks for your interest in how we calculate an experience's ranking score. It's at the core of Rankers so I'm pleased you're curious.
The ranking score percentage is used to compare and sort experiences in ranking tables. It is not necessarily a direct measurement of the quality of a particular experience as rated by its customers. I've found it a useful tool to allow me to find the best experiences with confidence. But I've also found it important to read the customer reviews before making any final judgements!
We calculate an experience's ranking score using a multi-factor data model instead of a raw data average (mean). This model takes into account several important questions. For instance - is there a trusted body of reviews? What is the age of a review and is the review from a credible source?
Below you'll find details around some of the important factors that went into calculating the ranking score for Kepler Track.
If you have any questions or comments about our ranking score calculation please get in touch at info@rankers.co.nz. We don't believe this is perfect or complete so we're always interested in ways we might make improvements.
Kepler Track
Valid Reviews
199 Valid Reviews
The Kepler Track experience has a total of 202 reviews. There are 199 valid reviews that are included when calculating the ranking score and 3 invalid reviews that are excluded from the calculation. Reviews can be excluded only when a reviewer is not verified or after an investigation by our team determines the reviewer is not genuine.
Below is the distribution of ratings for the 199 valid reviews:
| Rating | Count | Percentage | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10/10 | 61 |
|
31% |
| 9/10 | 63 |
|
32% |
| 8/10 | 47 |
|
24% |
| 7/10 | 22 |
|
11% |
| 6/10 | 5 |
|
3% |
| 5/10 | 0 |
|
0% |
| 4/10 | 0 |
|
0% |
| 3/10 | 1 |
|
1% |
| 2/10 | 0 |
|
0% |
| 1/10 | 0 |
|
0% |
87.44% Average
The raw data average (mean) for all the Kepler Track valid reviews is 87.44% and is based on 199 valid reviews. This value is not used to calculate the ranking score and it only provided here as a comparison to the weighted average.
Face-to-Face Reviews
195 Face-to-Face Reviews
The Rankers team meets with travellers while they’re in New Zealand and conducts face-to-face surveys. These reviews, in our opinion, are the most trusted in the industry and represent a critical control sample. To our knowledge, we are the only travel review website in the world that has gone to this extent.
More about face-to-face reviews
Within the 199 valid reviews, the experience has 195 face-to-face reviews collected during interviews by our team.
Below is the distribution of ratings for the 195 face-to-face reviews:
| Rating | Count | Percentage | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10/10 | 57 |
|
29% |
| 9/10 | 63 |
|
32% |
| 8/10 | 47 |
|
24% |
| 7/10 | 22 |
|
11% |
| 6/10 | 5 |
|
3% |
| 5/10 | 0 |
|
0% |
| 4/10 | 0 |
|
0% |
| 3/10 | 1 |
|
1% |
| 2/10 | 0 |
|
0% |
| 1/10 | 0 |
|
0% |
87.18% Average
The raw data average (mean) for all the Kepler Track face-to-face reviews is 87.18% and is based on 195 face-to-face reviews. This value is not used to calculate the ranking score and it only provided here for comparison purposes.
Weighted Average
87.97%
Rankers calculates a weighted mean as a base average on which we can improve. Individual review's ratings are given a weight based on several factors. The weight of a review determines the overall impact it'll have on the final weighted average.
Recent reviews have more weight as they are more relevant and reflect the experience as it currently operates. Over time reviews become less relevant and loose their impact on the ranking score.
Low rating reviews carry slightly less weight. This dampens the effect of very low ratings for every experience across the board. This is especially important when the experience has few reviews overall and a single negative rating can grossly mischaracterise an experience. Consistent poor reviews will still result in the experience receiving a comparitively low ranking score.
Credible sources provide reviews that can be trusted. If we have verified a reviewer is genuine via a face-to-face meeting then the review carries additional weight.
| Reviewer | Rating | Age | Relative Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mark Ashmore | 10/10 | 1403 days | 100% |
| Tom | 9/10 | 1421 days | 99% |
| Laureri Foster | 10/10 | 1433 days | 99% |
| Tomas Kotul | 8/10 | 1442 days | 93% |
| Dubrulle | 8/10 | 1499 days | 91% |
| Sabrina Kulikar | 7/10 | 1510 days | 87% |
| Lieke vol Velde | 8/10 | 1513 days | 90% |
| Olde Vogel | 9/10 | 1513 days | 95% |
| Elien Dauwe | 9/10 | 1518 days | 95% |
| Simon Dauwe | 9/10 | 1518 days | 95% |
| Mona Uttendorf | 8/10 | 1518 days | 90% |
| Luke | 8/10 | 1523 days | 90% |
| Kat | 9/10 | 1523 days | 95% |
| Nanda Dyke | 9/10 | 1525 days | 95% |
| Justine Langero | 8/10 | 1543 days | 89% |
| Thomas | 8/10 | 1543 days | 89% |
| Thomas Nolwenn | 9/10 | 1546 days | 94% |
| Nele Foerske | 9/10 | 1759 days | 84% |
| Leopold Kern | 9/10 | 1759 days | 84% |
| Matej Trampzer | 9/10 | 1765 days | 84% |
| Rebecca Grant | 10/10 | 1768 days | 84% |
| Sarah Grant | 9/10 | 1768 days | 84% |
| Holly Cooper | 8/10 | 1768 days | 79% |
| Josh Legge | 8/10 | 1770 days | 79% |
| Leonie Kaufmann | 9/10 | 1770 days | 84% |
| Selina | 8/10 | 1778 days | 79% |
| Radim Halasz | 8/10 | 1781 days | 79% |
| Katerina Vobecka | 9/10 | 1781 days | 83% |
| Jiri Sojka | 9/10 | 1781 days | 83% |
| Jana Formankoua | 10/10 | 1781 days | 83% |
| Rossella | 7/10 | 1782 days | 76% |
| Johannes Eisel | 10/10 | 1783 days | 83% |
| Alexander Mattea | 8/10 | 1783 days | 79% |
| Anouk Jongsma | 7/10 | 1784 days | 75% |
| Lukas Havlicek | 7/10 | 1790 days | 75% |
| Art Ruisenor | 10/10 | 1790 days | 83% |
| Matias Santos | 10/10 | 1792 days | 83% |
| Munne | 9/10 | 1795 days | 82% |
| Kim | 9/10 | 1796 days | 82% |
| Stephanie Pope | 9/10 | 1802 days | 82% |
| Mia Gaynor | 10/10 | 1808 days | 82% |
| magdalena gomez haedo | 10/10 | 1812 days | 82% |
| Brandon Patton | 10/10 | 1828 days | 81% |
| Anais Boileau | 10/10 | 1860 days | 80% |
| Martin Bakker | 9/10 | 1864 days | 79% |
| Kelsey Austin | 9/10 | 1866 days | 79% |
| Thomas Stuber | 9/10 | 1867 days | 79% |
| Ludo and Cha | 9/10 | 1871 days | 79% |
| Falko | 10/10 | 1880 days | 79% |
| Till | 10/10 | 1880 days | 79% |
| Alan West | 10/10 | 1880 days | 79% |
| Coralie Ambrosino | 9/10 | 2139 days | 67% |
| Katharina Block | 7/10 | 2142 days | 61% |
| Annika Fletemeyer | 7/10 | 2142 days | 61% |
| Tarillon Family | 9/10 | 2142 days | 67% |
| Martin Kroek | 8/10 | 2186 days | 62% |
| Manuela Opprecht | 10/10 | 2191 days | 65% |
| Judi Gilchrist | 10/10 | 2203 days | 64% |
| Samuel Tohko | 10/10 | 2225 days | 63% |
| Nikolas Gut | 8/10 | 2484 days | 49% |
| Anja Weppler | 9/10 | 2484 days | 52% |
| Charlotte | 7/10 | 2488 days | 47% |
| Vuillermet | 3/10 | 2488 days | 40% |
| Annika Marz | 9/10 | 2509 days | 51% |
| Julian Zeissler | 7/10 | 2509 days | 46% |
| Daniel Robledo | 9/10 | 2518 days | 50% |
| Maria Camen Santos Lopez | 10/10 | 2518 days | 50% |
| Linus Larsson | 9/10 | 2523 days | 50% |
| Radana Dlouha | 10/10 | 2523 days | 50% |
| Maria = Moller Hansen | 8/10 | 2528 days | 47% |
| Mike Gemmill | 10/10 | 2528 days | 50% |
| Tiit Pullerits | 10/10 | 2532 days | 50% |
| Marion Busch | 10/10 | 2532 days | 50% |
| Natalie Boehm | 7/10 | 2533 days | 45% |
| Steffen | 8/10 | 2533 days | 47% |
| Thomas Zilio | 8/10 | 2534 days | 47% |
| Tobias Gehring | 8/10 | 2536 days | 47% |
| Felix Brettner | 8/10 | 2536 days | 47% |
| Eugen Lehner | 8/10 | 2536 days | 47% |
| Max Stein | 7/10 | 2536 days | 45% |
| Simon Tanguy | 7/10 | 2536 days | 45% |
| David Krasner | 9/10 | 2542 days | 49% |
| G Ballard | 8/10 | 2543 days | 47% |
| F Ballard | 9/10 | 2543 days | 49% |
| Alexis Redor | 6/10 | 2548 days | 40% |
| Ludvig Fagerstrom | 7/10 | 2564 days | 44% |
| Johanna Bak | 8/10 | 2564 days | 46% |
| Doran Swartz | 10/10 | 2566 days | 48% |
| Guy David | 9/10 | 2566 days | 48% |
| Martin Thibaut | 10/10 | 2568 days | 48% |
| Daryl | 10/10 | 2571 days | 48% |
| Alex | 10/10 | 2576 days | 48% |
| Omri Ifrsh | 9/10 | 2857 days | 35% |
| Jiri van Straelper | 8/10 | 2869 days | 33% |
| Lea Scheuvens | 10/10 | 2872 days | 34% |
| Luise Fuchs | 8/10 | 2872 days | 33% |
| Cervenka Jaroslav | 10/10 | 2874 days | 34% |
| Christian | 7/10 | 2875 days | 31% |
| Joshua Perry | 10/10 | 2878 days | 34% |
| Molly Ladd | 9/10 | 2878 days | 34% |
| Sabisch Moritz | 8/10 | 2882 days | 32% |
| Karina Gratz | 9/10 | 2886 days | 34% |
| Justin Leest | 10/10 | 2886 days | 34% |
| Jacob Bernhardt | 10/10 | 2887 days | 34% |
| Patrick O'Connell | 10/10 | 2892 days | 33% |
| Veronica and Jordi | 7/10 | 2901 days | 30% |
| Alex Laidlaw | 10/10 | 2979 days | 30% |
| Oliver Kalmbach | 9/10 | 2981 days | 29% |
| Stuart Arrol | 8/10 | 3211 days | 18% |
| Anna | 10/10 | 3213 days | 19% |
| Monika Kneidl | 10/10 | 3222 days | 19% |
| Les Barnes | 8/10 | 3256 days | 16% |
| Carolee Webster | 10/10 | 3256 days | 17% |
| Beeny | 6/10 | 3257 days | 14% |
| Karin | 9/10 | 3259 days | 17% |
| Ken | 7/10 | 3260 days | 15% |
| Uwe Henze | 8/10 | 3261 days | 16% |
| John A Jerome | 9/10 | 3262 days | 17% |
| Cindy & Glen Kerunsky | 10/10 | 3263 days | 17% |
| Fannette Peyreplane | 10/10 | 3264 days | 17% |
| Nikita Sue | 9/10 | 3269 days | 17% |
| Francis Corrigan | 8/10 | 3277 days | 15% |
| Monika & Roger | 9/10 | 3289 days | 16% |
| Jackie & Ray | 8/10 | 3289 days | 15% |
| Harry Simpson | 9/10 | 3345 days | 13% |
| Berry | 9/10 | 3349 days | 13% |
| Jasmin Loeffler | 9/10 | 3557 days | 4% |
| Faith Whitcraft | 8/10 | 3590 days | 2% |
| R Tearle | 9/10 | 3591 days | 2% |
| Sarah and Uli Glas | 10/10 | 3593 days | 2% |
| Anezka Hlavacova | 6/10 | 3596 days | 2% |
| Marii Joekalda | 10/10 | 3596 days | 2% |
| Chrissy Crebas | 8/10 | 3598 days | 2% |
| noname | 8/10 | 3598 days | 2% |
| Dave Lidgard | 9/10 | 3600 days | 2% |
| Martin Vitiello | 9/10 | 3603 days | 2% |
| Stefan Mudl | 7/10 | 3603 days | 1% |
| Tara Koenig | 7/10 | 3604 days | 1% |
| Rebecca Johnston | 10/10 | 3604 days | 2% |
| Fabrizio Consolini | 10/10 | 3604 days | 2% |
| Bruce & Elaine Chote | 9/10 | 3605 days | 2% |
| Javier Munoz | 9/10 | 3606 days | 2% |
| Lisa Lovebarge | 9/10 | 3607 days | 1% |
| Susan Herd | 9/10 | 3608 days | 1% |
| Alan Munday | 9/10 | 3611 days | 1% |
| Silvia Schmutz | 10/10 | 3613 days | 1% |
| Grumbach | 9/10 | 3616 days | 1% |
| Andreas Fritesche | 10/10 | 3616 days | 1% |
| Geert Van Tittelboom | 9/10 | 3617 days | 1% |
| Camilla Andersson | 8/10 | 3618 days | 1% |
| Manfred & Gabi | 9/10 | 3624 days | 1% |
| Martin Current | 8/10 | 3628 days | 0% |
| James Jackson | 9/10 | 3631 days | 0% |
| Cheryl | 8/10 | 3631 days | 0% |
| Nataly Loewidt | 6/10 | 3633 days | 0% |
| Martin L | 10/10 | 3634 days | 0% |
| Ainoa Salazar Lozano | 7/10 | 3634 days | 0% |
| Doris Neuber | 10/10 | 3640 days | 0% |
| Chris | 9/10 | 3890 days | 22% |
| Sabine | 10/10 | 3890 days | 22% |
| Dud Grossmann | 10/10 | 3894 days | 22% |
| Kevin & Chris | 8/10 | 3910 days | 21% |
| philaus | 8/10 | 3947 days | 21% |
| Jess | 10/10 | 3952 days | 22% |
| Martina Pankova | 10/10 | 3953 days | 22% |
| Margie | 10/10 | 3956 days | 22% |
| Bob Lenihan | 10/10 | 3964 days | 22% |
| Russell & Barbara Gilmour | 9/10 | 3964 days | 22% |
| Einar | 9/10 | 3966 days | 22% |
| Dutertre Annaboue | 8/10 | 3979 days | 21% |
| Nicky and Andy Prescott | 9/10 | 3980 days | 22% |
| Colby Smythe | 10/10 | 3981 days | 22% |
| Richard | 9/10 | 3982 days | 22% |
| Hans Suess | 9/10 | 3984 days | 22% |
| John Cox | 6/10 | 3984 days | 19% |
| Matthiis & Femke | 8/10 | 3985 days | 21% |
| Sheila Morgan | 9/10 | 3987 days | 22% |
| M Sicard | 9/10 | 3988 days | 22% |
| Ilst De | 8/10 | 3991 days | 21% |
| A Southwood | 8/10 | 4000 days | 21% |
| Thomas Stopp | 8/10 | 4006 days | 21% |
| BenH | 10/10 | 4006 days | 22% |
| Jessica | 8/10 | 4011 days | 21% |
| Anne Heriot | 10/10 | 4018 days | 22% |
| foucherm | 7/10 | 4061 days | 20% |
| Stefan Lua | 10/10 | 4070 days | 22% |
| anne p | 8/10 | 4091 days | 21% |
| Peter and Dianne McKinnon | 10/10 | 4091 days | 22% |
| HansH1 | 9/10 | 4306 days | 22% |
| geoffelizabeth | 8/10 | 4312 days | 21% |
| annysp | 10/10 | 4312 days | 22% |
| JasminA | 7/10 | 4312 days | 20% |
| Philipp | 7/10 | 4312 days | 20% |
| Jelle | 8/10 | 4315 days | 21% |
| Dianne | 9/10 | 4421 days | 22% |
| JulianeH | 10/10 | 4422 days | 22% |
| Charlotta Halfwordson | 10/10 | 4443 days | 22% |
| Josefine | 10/10 | 4443 days | 22% |
| Sascha | 7/10 | 4509 days | 20% |
Adjustments
No Adjustment
Several adjustments to the weighted average may be added to improve relevancy and credibility. Kepler Track does not meet the criteria for any of these adjustments to apply.
Final Ranking Score
88%
The final ranking score once rounding has been applied. This value is cached and recalculated each day. Therefore it may not be precisely accurate based on the other values presented.
If you have any questions or comments about our ranking score calculation please get in touch at info@rankers.co.nz.