Cordless Vacuum Companies methodology

Scope

Companies manufacturing manually operated, battery-powered cordless stick or handheld vacuums currently offered to U.S. household buyers. Robot-only, corded-only, wet/dry shop-vac-only, and commercial-only portfolios are outside scope.

Help a U.S. household buyer choose the cordless-vacuum company with the strongest current combination of cleaning, durability, battery, usability, filtration, value, breadth, support, and independently verifiable evidence.

Evidence standard

Material score inputs must resolve through a public claim and evidence record to an admissible source. Primary documentation supports specifications and policies; credible independent evidence is used for performance or experiential claims when available. AI output and search snippets are not ranking evidence.

Missing and conflicting evidence

Missing evidence is never guessed or silently reweighted. A predeclared category rule may handle a verified absence; otherwise the score remains incomplete. Conflicting source evidence stays visible, can reduce confidence, and blocks an input when unresolved.

Coverage and confidence

Evidence coverage measures how much of the frozen rubric has admissible support. Confidence reflects source strength, freshness, corroboration, and source-conflict status. Neither measure adds points to the organic score.

Deterministic scoring, rounding, and ties

Scores use the frozen weights above and full-precision deterministic arithmetic. Public scores use one decimal place, but rank order uses the unrounded value. Remaining ties use competition ranking and are never broken by editorial preference.

Versions and corrections

This page describes Version 1.0 of the methodology for Version 1.0 of this ranking. A material evidence or scoring change creates a successor version; prior published history is not silently overwritten.