WOT ratings and reviews come from the community

Each community member can contribute to WOT. Share your knowledge to help other users surf safely by providing ratings and reviews for sites that you have used. On the Reputation scorecard you can tell your reasons for the rating you have given, helping others to make an educated decision before interacting with the site. The system processes ratings and calculates the reputation for each website in real-time. Attempts to manipulate the reputation data are effectively countered through the use of sophisticated algorithms.

See some examples from our scorecards:

Trusted information sources

While our primary source of knowledge are ratings and reviews from the WOT community, we also take advantage of nearly a hundred carefully chosen trusted sources, such as listings of phishing sites. This provides WOT with a fast, automated and reliable means of protecting our users from new, rapidly spreading online threats.

Sources have different weights based on their type and methodology, which means that one source can have a much larger effect on the reputation than another.