# Showing relevancy in percentage
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/showing-relevancy-in-percentage/203764
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [October 16, 2019, 7:17am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/showing-relevancy-in-percentage/203764 "2019-10-16T07:17:02Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@Rick\_Choo](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Rick_Choo)
#### Post date: [October 16, 2019, 7:17am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/showing-relevancy-in-percentage/203764/1 "2019-10-16T07:17:03Z")
Hi may I know how do I show the relevancy of the search result?
I understand the search will have some score for the result, however, in order to make sense of the number I was hoping for a best score which I can draw comparison to.
maybe 90 points out of 100 points or something like that.
I tried to use the max score, however the max score is not really the max score but the highest score among the return result.
Appreciate your help
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### Author:  [@spinscale](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/spinscale)
#### Post date: [October 16, 2019, 12:54pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/showing-relevancy-in-percentage/203764/2 "2019-10-16T12:54:58Z")
Check the [explain parameter](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/7.4/search-request-body.html#request-body-search-explain) and the [explain API](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/7.4/search-explain.html) in order to figure out how a score was computed.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [November 13, 2019, 12:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/showing-relevancy-in-percentage/203764/3 "2019-11-13T12:55:05Z")
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