AliExpress Category Trust Norms — Is 96.8% Good for This Category?
The same rating means different things in electronics vs phone cases.
- Paste an AliExpress product link and see its rating and sales as a percentile among
Figures are estimates from this calculator’s standard formula — adjust the inputs in the tool below for your exact number.
How the Category Trust Norms tool works
AliExpress publishes no official per-category rating benchmark, so we build the comparison from a live sample: we fetch the product via the Partner API, then search for similar products using its title keywords (the listings buyers actually see in the same niche — in practice, the same category). We then compute the product's percentile for both rating and sales among that sample: 85% means it beats 85% of similar listings. We also show the sample's median rating and median sales — i.e. "what's normal here". Below 10 comparable listings we show "insufficient sample" rather than a noisy number. The result is a live estimate, not an official statistic — and we say so.
Use Cases
An electronics item at 96.8% positive — above most of its competitors, or just an ordinary number for its section?
A new product with few orders: is its sales volume actually notable against its rivals?
Comparing two variants of the same product: which one is genuinely stronger inside its niche.
Common Mistakes
Reading a rating in isolation from its category: 93% can be excellent in some sections and poor in others.
Assuming high sales volume always means quality — it may just mean a very low price.
Ignoring the sample size: a percentile built on 3 products means nothing, which is why we withhold it below 10.
FAQs
Where do the "category norms" come from?
How is this different from the Review Credibility Proxy?
Why does it sometimes say "insufficient sample"?
Does the result mean the product is "good" or "bad"?
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