Methodology

How the Analyzed Product Profile Works

An Analyzed Product Profilesummarizes the clothing products Greener Closet has scored for a brand. It counts distinct products rather than variant rows, and reports a median and range — not a mean. It is not a corporate sustainability score, and the retired LLM brand assessment is no longer published.

Last updated: August 2026. Product-level scoring — the six factors and the 0–100 clothing score — is documented separately on How Greener Closet Scores Clothing.

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What the profile is

Each public brand page publishes figures computed from Greener Closet's own catalogue: products we have already analyzed, matched to that brand by exact identity (the brand name and its aliases), never by a substring. The profile reports:

Distinct products, not duplicate variant rows. Names are compared after Unicode normalization, trimming, and case-folding; color or size rows that share a name collapse to one product.
Median and range of scored products. We do not publish a mean. If some distinct products have no score yet, the median, range, and score bands describe only the scored subset.
Score bands: 80+, 50–79, and below 50. These are the same bands used to read a clothing score, applied to the distinct-product sample.
Composition completeness — the share of distinct products with a parsed fiber map — and certification disclosure — the share that list at least one certification string. Disclosure is not a verification that a certificate is valid.
Analysis dates: the oldest and newest analysis dates in the distinct-product sample, so a reader can see how current the underlying scores are.

What the profile is not

The Analyzed Product Profileis not a corporate sustainability score. It does not rate a company's factories, labour practices, emissions, or public commitments. A brand with a high median among the garments we have scored has not been certified as a sustainable company; a brand with a low median has not been found to run a poor operation.

Greener Closet previously published an LLM-generated corporate brand assessment (an overall number, category scores, and model-written summaries). That assessment is retired. It is not generated, not shown on brand pages, and not used for titles, snippets, or structured data.

How product scores are produced

The numbers inside a profile are ordinary Greener Closet product scores, produced automatically:

Read the product page. From a submitted product URL we extract the stated fabric composition and any certification names the retailer discloses. Extraction is automated; we do not currently test garments in a lab.
Score from disclosed materials. Each product starts at 100. Five research-based factors — microplastics, PFAS, material half-life, production energy, and fiber shedding — apply penalties per material, weighted by that material's share of the garment. A sixth factor, azo dyes, applies to the garment as a whole. A small adjustment then reflects whether any certification was disclosed. GOTS, bluesign, OEKO-TEX Standard 100, and Cradle to Cradle can also mark a product azo-dye-free. The full clothing-score process lives on the product methodology page.
Summarize the brand's sample. Distinct analyzed products for that brand are counted, scored products yield a median, range, and bands, and completeness and disclosure rates are computed from the same sample.

We can only score what a retailer discloses. Missing composition lowers completeness; missing certifications lowers the disclosure rate. Neither gap is treated as proof that a company hides information, and neither is converted into a corporate penalty.

When a brand page is indexed

A brand page is included in search results, the brand sitemap, the /brands directory, and internal-link targets only when we have scored at least 6 distinct products for that brand. That floor matches the minimum used on category and alternatives hubs. Pages below it stay reachable (HTTP 200) for product navigation but emit noindex,follow.

Six products is still a small catalogue sample. Titles and descriptions for those pages say so. A much larger sample is described as a full profile, not as a corporate rating.

Corrections

If you represent this brand and a figure on the page is wrong — a product that isn't yours, a composition we misread, a certification that was not disclosed that way — send a correction from the brand page or the contact form. That form emails the monitored Greener Closet inbox. We aim to respond within 24 hours.

A genuine dispute can temporarily hide the disputed claim while we review it. That is not an automatic permanent removal: unreviewed or competitor-driven requests do not take a page down for good.

Analyzed Product Profile questions

What is an Analyzed Product Profile?

It is a summary of the clothing products Greener Closet has already scored for a brand. It counts distinct products, reports a median and range rather than a mean, and shows score bands, common materials, certification disclosure, completeness, and analysis dates.

Is this a corporate sustainability score?

No. The profile describes only the garments we have analyzed from disclosed composition and certifications. It is not a judgement of the company's operations, labour practices, or climate performance. The retired LLM brand assessment is no longer published.

Why a median and range instead of an average?

A mean is pulled by a few very high or very low products. The median is the middle scored product; the range shows the lowest and highest. Together they describe the sample without presenting one number as the brand.

What does “distinct products” mean?

Catalogue rows that share a name after Unicode normalization, trimming, and case-folding collapse to one product, so color or size variants are not counted twice. Different names stay separate. Median, range, and the indexing floor all use this distinct-product count.

When is a brand page included in search results?

Only when at least six distinct analyzed products match that brand. Pages below that floor stay reachable for navigation but are not indexed, not listed in the brand directory, and not used as internal-link targets.

How are the underlying product scores produced?

Automatically. We read the composition and certification details a retailer discloses on the product page, match those materials to our research database, and apply the published clothing-score process. We do not lab-test garments.

Does the certification-disclosure figure affect the scores?

The percentage on the profile is a coverage statistic and does not itself enter the median. Each product score already includes a small adjustment for whether that product disclosed any certification. Separately, GOTS, bluesign, OEKO-TEX Standard 100, and Cradle to Cradle can mark a product azo-dye-free.

How do I request a correction?

Use the “Are you this brand?” link on the brand page, or the contact form with a brand-profile correction. We aim to respond within 24 hours. A review can temporarily hide a disputed claim; it is not an automatic permanent removal.

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Browse brand pages built from analyzed products, or analyze a product URL to add one to the catalogue.