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title: "Understanding Your Security Grade — Lemwatch Help"
description: "How LemWatch calculates your overall security grade."
canonical: "https://lemwatch.com/help/security-grade"
source: "https://lemwatch.com"
---

# Understanding Your Security Grade

> How LemWatch calculates your overall security grade.

## Understanding Your Security Grade

### What's Included

 Your security grade is a composite of:

- Security headers — Presence and configuration of HTTP security headers

- SSL/TLS — Certificate validity, protocol version, chain integrity

- Mixed content — Whether HTTPS pages load any HTTP resources

- Malware scanning — Checks against Google Safe Browsing and URLhaus databases

- Cookie compliance — Consent banner detection and tracking script analysis

- Exposed services — Open ports and known vulnerabilities (via Shodan data)

### Grade Scale

- A+ — Exceptional. All security measures in place

- A — Excellent. Minor improvements possible

- B — Good. A few missing headers or minor issues

- C — Fair. Some important security measures missing

- D — Poor. Multiple security gaps

- F — Critical. Major vulnerabilities detected

### Improving Your Grade

 LemWatch provides specific, actionable recommendations for each issue found. Issues are tagged with:

- Impact level — How much fixing this will improve your grade

- Difficulty — Easy, Medium, or Hard to implement

- Team — Who should fix it (SEO, Dev, DevOps)


## Related

- [Help centre](https://lemwatch.com/help)
- [Security Headers Explained](https://lemwatch.com/help/security-headers)
- [SSL Certificate Monitoring](https://lemwatch.com/help/ssl-monitoring)
- [SEO Health Monitoring](https://lemwatch.com/help/seo-monitoring)
- [Broken Links Detection](https://lemwatch.com/help/broken-links)
- [Lemwatch pricing](https://lemwatch.com/pricing)
- [How does seat billing work?](https://lemwatch.com/help/seat-management-and-billing)