How We Rank Gambling Sites
Every score on BestGamblingWebsites comes from the same formula, applied to every site. Commissions never change it.
The signals
| Signal | Weight | What it measures |
|---|---|---|
| Operating time | 6% | Years live. 7+ years scores full marks. |
| Traffic | 9% | Monthly visits on a log scale (10k → 0, 100M+ → 5). |
| News | 6% | Recent headlines, scored positive / neutral / negative. |
| Player reviews | 12% | Trustpilot-style rating, weighted by review count. |
| Community votes | 9% | Star votes cast here on BestGamblingWebsites. |
| Editor rating | 18% | Our own hands-on rating after testing the site. |
| Review-site consensus | 15% | Average ranking across other independent gambling review sites. |
| On-chain volume | 24% | Crypto deposited into the casino over the last year, tracked on-chain by DappRadar ($1M = 1, ~$5B = 5). |
How the score is built
Each signal is turned into a score out of 5, then combined using the weights above. Sites with little data are pulled toward an average of 3.0 until more information comes in, so one strong signal can't push an unknown site to the top.
Crypto and sweepstakes casinos without in-house originals (crash, dice, mines, plinko and similar) lose 1.5 stars, because originals are what most players in these categories look for.
Our editors can fix the order of a category when hands-on testing shows the data is missing something. Those picks are clearly the exception, not the rule.
What we don't do
- We don't sell rankings or positions.
- We don't list pure skin marketplaces or trading sites as gambling sites.
- We don't list sites we believe have stopped paying out.