G'day, 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 Kapowairua Campsite.
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.
71 Valid Reviews
The Kapowairua Campsite experience has a total of 73 reviews. There are 71 valid reviews that are included when calculating the ranking score and 2 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 71 valid reviews:
Rating | Count | Percentage | |
---|---|---|---|
10/10 | 29 |
|
41% |
9/10 | 20 |
|
28% |
8/10 | 11 |
|
15% |
7/10 | 2 |
|
3% |
6/10 | 4 |
|
6% |
5/10 | 2 |
|
3% |
4/10 | 1 |
|
1% |
3/10 | 1 |
|
1% |
2/10 | 1 |
|
1% |
1/10 | 0 |
|
0% |
86.62% Average
The raw data average (mean) for all the Kapowairua Campsite valid reviews is 86.62% and is based on 71 valid reviews. This value is not used to calculate the ranking score and it only provided here as a comparison to the weighted average.
29 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 71 valid reviews, the experience has 29 face-to-face reviews collected during interviews by our team.
Below is the distribution of ratings for the 29 face-to-face reviews:
Rating | Count | Percentage | |
---|---|---|---|
10/10 | 11 |
|
38% |
9/10 | 9 |
|
31% |
8/10 | 3 |
|
10% |
7/10 | 1 |
|
3% |
6/10 | 3 |
|
10% |
5/10 | 0 |
|
0% |
4/10 | 0 |
|
0% |
3/10 | 1 |
|
3% |
2/10 | 1 |
|
3% |
1/10 | 0 |
|
0% |
84.48% Average
The raw data average (mean) for all the Kapowairua Campsite face-to-face reviews is 84.48% and is based on 29 face-to-face reviews. This value is not used to calculate the ranking score and it only provided here for comparison purposes.
85.05%
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 |
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Celine | 8/10 | 22 days | 100% |
Marianne | 4/10 | 53 days | 66% |
Dina | 9/10 | 114 days | 100% |
Tim | 5/10 | 419 days | 70% |
Mari from UK 🇬🇧 | 9/10 | 419 days | 91% |
Rian Caccianiga | 9/10 | 480 days | 88% |
Benjamin | 10/10 | 511 days | 87% |
Candelaria | 9/10 | 511 days | 86% |
Berthe | 10/10 | 572 days | 83% |
Gstto | 9/10 | 815 days | 63% |
Leet | 10/10 | 968 days | 48% |
Dan | 8/10 | 1241 days | 24% |
chel | 9/10 | 1424 days | 14% |
Bluescruize | 10/10 | 1514 days | 11% |
Sarah Coughlan | 8/10 | 1636 days | 7% |
Robo | 10/10 | 1667 days | 7% |
Marie | 8/10 | 1911 days | 5% |
Adam | 8/10 | 1911 days | 5% |
Feija | 9/10 | 1941 days | 5% |
Lidia | 10/10 | 2002 days | 5% |
Simon Mehana. | 10/10 | 2155 days | 4% |
jennifer guertler | 10/10 | 2186 days | 4% |
Paul Smith | 9/10 | 2245 days | 4% |
Lizzie | 7/10 | 2306 days | 4% |
Stefan Beiner | 10/10 | 2306 days | 4% |
Georgia Gray | 6/10 | 2581 days | 3% |
Mikayla Candido | 10/10 | 2624 days | 3% |
Kathy Maslin | 9/10 | 2737 days | 3% |
Laurie | 8/10 | 3072 days | 3% |
Felix Bröder | 10/10 | 3082 days | 3% |
Alizee Petit | 9/10 | 3179 days | 2% |
Bill Milburn | 10/10 | 3313 days | 2% |
D Naylor | 10/10 | 3354 days | 2% |
Sebastian | 10/10 | 3401 days | 2% |
Christine Slowiak | 10/10 | 3524 days | 2% |
Katerina Hlavsova | 10/10 | 3666 days | 1% |
Celia Nowak | 10/10 | 3680 days | 1% |
Lea Karl | 9/10 | 3724 days | 1% |
Sophie Huybrechts | 9/10 | 3728 days | 1% |
Ron Clarke | 9/10 | 3797 days | 1% |
Lagarde | 6/10 | 3979 days | 1% |
Petra Albrchtoval | 10/10 | 4004 days | 1% |
Maxime Ripoche | 10/10 | 4021 days | 1% |
Markus | 10/10 | 4023 days | 1% |
Cornelia Witte | 9/10 | 4023 days | 1% |
Mike Leopard | 8/10 | 4040 days | 1% |
Juandflow | 5/10 | 4040 days | 1% |
Evian Bolz | 7/10 | 4069 days | 1% |
Harel Cliad | 6/10 | 4069 days | 1% |
Chen Levin | 6/10 | 4069 days | 1% |
Heather Kingston | 8/10 | 4070 days | 1% |
Audrey Ripoche | 8/10 | 4353 days | 0% |
Rampon | 10/10 | 4364 days | 0% |
Debiesse | 10/10 | 4365 days | 0% |
Loesje | 10/10 | 4377 days | 0% |
Jan & Jile | 10/10 | 4382 days | 1% |
Fabian Brand | 10/10 | 4398 days | 1% |
Will and Taylor | 10/10 | 4405 days | 1% |
Nadine and Jan | 9/10 | 4449 days | 1% |
Richard | 10/10 | 4752 days | 1% |
Marie Dutron | 10/10 | 4752 days | 1% |
Paul Weidenfeld | 9/10 | 4758 days | 1% |
Sid | 8/10 | 4863 days | 1% |
Barbara Probert | 3/10 | 5092 days | 1% |
Javier Munoz | 9/10 | 5101 days | 1% |
K & J Overton | 9/10 | 5102 days | 1% |
Zenager | 8/10 | 5109 days | 1% |
Julian Tiff | 9/10 | 5123 days | 1% |
Mary | 9/10 | 5475 days | 1% |
Yvonne German | 10/10 | 5518 days | 1% |
Serge Yken | 2/10 | 5589 days | 0% |
No Adjustment
Several adjustments to the weighted average may be added to improve relevancy and credibility. Kapowairua Campsite does not meet the criteria for any of these adjustments to apply.
1.81% 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.
87%
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.