Score Breakdown

Detailed SSL/TLS score analysis breakdown

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About

The SSL Security Score Breakdown tool provides a detailed analysis of your domain's SSL/TLS security configuration, assigning individual scores across multiple security dimensions. It evaluates your certificate strength, protocol support, cipher suite configuration, key exchange security, and header configuration to calculate an overall security score from 0 to 100.

Each scoring category includes specific recommendations for improvement, making it easy to prioritize hardening efforts. The breakdown shows exactly which areas are pulling your score down — whether it's weak ciphers, missing HSTS, outdated protocols, or certificate issues. This granular visibility helps you make targeted improvements rather than guessing what needs fixing.

How to Use

1Enter the domain name you want to evaluate (e.g., example.com)
2Click "Get Score Breakdown" to run the comprehensive security analysis
3Review the overall score and individual category scores (Certificate, Protocols, Ciphers, Headers)
4Follow the specific recommendations for each category to improve your security score

Use Cases

•Security Baseline: Establish a quantitative security baseline for your domain and track improvements over time after hardening changes
•Executive Reporting: Generate security score reports for management that clearly communicate TLS security posture in a simple 0-100 format
•Remediation Prioritization: Identify the highest-impact improvements to focus development effort where it will most improve security
•Competitive Benchmarking: Compare your security score against industry standards and competitors to identify gaps
•Compliance Evidence: Document security scores as evidence of TLS configuration quality for PCI DSS, HIPAA, and SOC 2 audits

Tips & Best Practices

•Focus on improving the lowest-scoring category first for the biggest overall score improvement
•Aim for a score above 90 for production systems handling sensitive data
•Re-run the score breakdown after each hardening change to measure improvement
•Use the category scores to create targeted security improvement roadmaps

Technical Details

●Scoring Categories: Certificate (25%), Protocol Support (25%), Cipher Strength (25%), Security Headers (25%)

●Weighted Algorithms: Each category uses weighted scoring based on security impact and industry best practices

●Thresholds: 90-100 Excellent, 80-89 Good, 70-79 Fair, 60-69 Poor, Below 60 Critical

●Recommendations: Specific, actionable fix suggestions for each sub-category with estimated score improvement

Frequently Asked Questions

A score of 90-100 is excellent and indicates your TLS configuration meets modern security best practices. Scores of 80-89 are good but have room for improvement. Below 80 indicates significant security gaps that should be addressed. For PCI DSS compliance, aim for at least 80. For high-security environments handling financial or healthcare data, target 90+.

The fastest improvements usually come from: enabling HSTS headers (can add 10-15 points), disabling TLS 1.0/1.1 (5-10 points), removing weak ciphers like RC4 and 3DES (10-20 points), and ensuring your certificate chain is complete and properly ordered (5-10 points). These changes are typically low-risk and high-impact.

Check your score after any TLS configuration change, at least monthly for routine monitoring, and quarterly for compliance documentation. Set up the API integration to automatically track score changes over time and alert you if your score drops due to configuration drift or new security standards being applied.