Kia ora, 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 Port Motueka Beach Reserve.

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.

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Port Motueka Beach Reserve

Valid Reviews

109 Valid Reviews

The Port Motueka Beach Reserve experience has a total of 114 reviews. There are 109 valid reviews that are included when calculating the ranking score and 5 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 109 valid reviews:

Rating Count Percentage
10/10 27
25%
9/10 24
22%
8/10 26
24%
7/10 10
9%
6/10 7
6%
5/10 2
2%
4/10 1
1%
3/10 2
2%
2/10 2
2%
1/10 8
7%

76.88% Average

The raw data average (mean) for all the Port Motueka Beach Reserve valid reviews is 76.88% and is based on 109 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

9 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 109 valid reviews, the experience has 9 face-to-face reviews collected during interviews by our team.

Below is the distribution of ratings for the 9 face-to-face reviews:

Rating Count Percentage
10/10 1
11%
9/10 2
22%
8/10 2
22%
7/10 1
11%
6/10 3
33%
5/10 0
0%
4/10 0
0%
3/10 0
0%
2/10 0
0%
1/10 0
0%

76.67% Average

The raw data average (mean) for all the Port Motueka Beach Reserve face-to-face reviews is 76.67% and is based on 9 face-to-face reviews. This value is not used to calculate the ranking score and it only provided here for comparison purposes.

Weighted Average

80.38%

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
Anne Joly 2/10 131 days 46%
Gerrit 3/10 131 days 55%
Clement 9/10 159 days 100%
Kirsty 1/10 159 days 41%
Nerida 1/10 159 days 41%
Sol 8/10 221 days 98%
Julie 7/10 251 days 92%
Melanie Franssens 4/10 282 days 64%
Claire 1/10 282 days 40%
Christina 10/10 404 days 93%
Jas 9/10 496 days 87%
James 8/10 524 days 85%
Morgane 9/10 555 days 84%
Wohoo 9/10 586 days 82%
Mladen Savov 10/10 586 days 82%
Nancy Campbell 8/10 616 days 79%
Ellen 9/10 616 days 79%
Morgane 9/10 647 days 77%
Mike Fricker 10/10 800 days 65%
Sabrina K 10/10 830 days 62%
Jorian 9/10 861 days 59%
Pauline 10/10 890 days 56%
Ann 10/10 890 days 56%
Britta 8/10 890 days 55%
Eva 1/10 921 days 21%
Sam H 10/10 952 days 50%
Nina 10/10 982 days 47%
Cholly 9/10 1013 days 43%
Marie Perret 10/10 1043 days 41%
Henry 7/10 1074 days 35%
Christa 9/10 1135 days 33%
Zuzana 10/10 1135 days 33%
Matthew 9/10 1135 days 33%
Basil 9/10 1166 days 30%
Dani 8/10 1196 days 28%
Julierose19 10/10 1227 days 26%
Chantel 9/10 1227 days 26%
Willow 10/10 1255 days 24%
Alex 8/10 1286 days 22%
Blandine 8/10 1286 days 22%
Lara 8/10 1378 days 16%
Har 6/10 1592 days 7%
Alanna 10/10 1620 days 7%
AC 9/10 1651 days 7%
Jenna 8/10 1712 days 6%
Soul 10/10 1743 days 5%
La Vie 1/10 1957 days 2%
Britt 7/10 1985 days 4%
Kathryn 10/10 1985 days 5%
Leon 10/10 1985 days 5%
Rebecca 10/10 2077 days 5%
Felix 8/10 2169 days 4%
Katie 1/10 2200 days 2%
Ian & Wendy 2/10 2351 days 2%
Lærke 10/10 2351 days 4%
JACKIE EHRHARDT 9/10 2413 days 4%
Ritravel 9/10 2443 days 4%
Lua 10/10 2443 days 4%
Piluki 9/10 2474 days 4%
Benjamin Wegenstein 7/10 2474 days 3%
Geoff Walker 9/10 2474 days 4%
Ambs 9/10 2504 days 4%
Becca 8/10 2596 days 3%
Andy and Julia 10/10 2656 days 3%
Lena 10/10 2747 days 3%
Ymke Huisman 10/10 2778 days 3%
Mike Fricker 10/10 2839 days 3%
Harriet Kelly 1/10 2839 days 1%
Lance 5/10 2839 days 2%
Stephen Lindsay 8/10 2992 days 3%
Mike 8/10 3022 days 3%
Nathalie 1/10 3053 days 1%
Jean 8/10 3053 days 3%
Mallory 8/10 3053 days 3%
The Farrs 6/10 3053 days 2%
S Weslake 6/10 3053 days 2%
Oceane Imber 10/10 3107 days 2%
Axel Kite 7/10 3118 days 2%
Michael Pitman 9/10 3125 days 2%
Silvia 8/10 3149 days 2%
Rogier Kavelaars 8/10 3159 days 2%
Vander Plancke Julien 10/10 3165 days 2%
Jacki Janetzki 5/10 3204 days 2%
Jo Dawson 8/10 3306 days 2%
Grace White 3/10 3374 days 1%
Duncan 7/10 3397 days 2%
deborah cooper 7/10 3417 days 2%
Johanna Dorner 8/10 3432 days 2%
Rogina de Jong 9/10 3467 days 2%
Trent O'Keeffe 8/10 3467 days 2%
Irene 8/10 3751 days 1%
Marina 8/10 3809 days 1%
Ron Web 10/10 3904 days 1%
Kate Voss 9/10 4064 days 1%
Sarrob Sarrob 7/10 4149 days 0%
Manuela 9/10 4235 days 0%
Alexandre Moleiro 8/10 4238 days 0%
Benoit Fricaudet 9/10 4247 days 0%
Moudry Vojtech 10/10 4254 days 0%
rachaelandryan 9/10 4299 days 0%
Daniel Jarrett 6/10 4329 days 0%
Mike Fricker 8/10 4483 days 1%
Garry Renton 6/10 4490 days 0%
Susan 8/10 4539 days 1%
Dan Lawson 6/10 4554 days 0%
Sina Sacranie 6/10 4554 days 0%
Kellie 7/10 4578 days 0%
K S 7/10 4879 days 1%
Aurelie Morin 8/10 4960 days 1%

Adjustments

No Adjustment

Several adjustments to the weighted average may be added to improve relevancy and credibility. Port Motueka Beach Reserve does not meet the criteria for any of these adjustments to apply.

Balancing Adjustment

2.90% Adjustment

Every experience's review score is adjusted to balance out the disproportional number of negative reviews that are contributed.

You won't be surprised to learn that disgruntled folk are more likely to leave a review than happy ones. They are motivated to share their experience and warn others. We consider this a good thing and it's why reading the reviews is important. However we've learned it can misrepresent the experience in a more overall sense.

We apply a balancing adjustment to counteract this effect and ensure the ranking score is a more fair representation of the experience. This adjustment is applied equally to all experiences.

Final Ranking Score

83%

The final ranking score once any adjustments, ratings, and rounding has been applied. This value is recalculated each day and a short rolling average is applied. Therefore it may not be precisely accurate based on the other values presented.