Our Review Methodology: Criteria and Scoring System 2026 Casino
Every page is re-reviewed at least twice a year. We also re-open the dashboard when the brand changes its welcome offer, changes a payment method, pushes a new app version, or when the UKGC publishes new guidance. The last review date is printed at the top of every page.
A re-review always includes a fresh deposit and withdrawal test, a fresh look at the live-chat response time, and a fresh scan of the terms and conditions. If anything material has changed — the welcome offer has been reduced, a payment method has been pulled, or a wagering rate has gone up — we re-run the full scoring exercise, not just the affected criterion, because a change in one area often reflects a change in strategy that affects others.
Readers can request a re-review by e-mailing editor@ivybet.bet with a short note on what has changed. We track every request and prioritise re-reviews when a reader flags something we have missed. We will not rewrite a page simply because a brand asks us to: the trigger is a change on the operator's side, not a request to improve a score.
Our re-review log is public on the editorial team page. Every page lists its last review date, the reviewer, and the summary of what changed since the previous review. If you want to understand how a particular score moved over time, the log is the first place to look.
A five-star rating means best-in-class for the UK market in this category. Four stars is above the median. Three stars is on par with the average UKGC site. Two or fewer stars means we would steer our readers away unless the brand is a strong fit for a narrow use case.
We do not round up. A score of 3.4 is shown as 3.4, not 3.5. The number is deliberately precise so readers can compare brands that differ by a tenth of a star. When two brands score identically, we break the tie by payout speed, because readers consistently tell us that a quick withdrawal matters more than a marginally better bonus.
We publish the full score breakdown on every brand page, so readers can see where a four-star rating came from and decide whether the weights match their priorities.
We score Ivybet on seven weighted criteria: welcome offer value (weight 20), payout speed (20), game library depth (15), mobile usability (10), support quality (10), responsible-gaming tools (15), and licensing and transparency (10). Each criterion is scored out of five and combined into a single final mark.
The welcome offer score combines the headline amount, the wagering rate, the max bet, and the games weighting. The payout score is based on real withdrawal timestamps from our test deposits — not the brand's own quoted window. Game library depth measures both the headline count and the diversity of providers — a lobby of two thousand titles from three providers scores lower than a lobby of nine hundred titles from fifteen.
Mobile usability is measured on the live app and on the mobile browser, on a mid-tier Android and on an iPhone that is three years old. We check tap targets, form fills, the time from app launch to the first wager, and whether the live-dealer floor plays without buffering on a 4G connection.