diff --git a/explorer/src/components/MixNodes/Economics/Columns.ts b/explorer/src/components/MixNodes/Economics/Columns.ts
index 44aca467c8..c038b68bce 100644
--- a/explorer/src/components/MixNodes/Economics/Columns.ts
+++ b/explorer/src/components/MixNodes/Economics/Columns.ts
@@ -41,9 +41,10 @@ export const EconomicsInfoColumns: ColumnsType[] = [
   },
   {
     field: 'avgUptime',
-    title: 'Avg. Uptime',
+    title: 'Routing Score',
     flex: 1,
     headerAlign: 'left',
-    tooltipInfo: 'Node’s average uptime in the last 24h.',
+    tooltipInfo:
+      'Node’s routing score is relative to that of the network. Each time a node is tested, the test packets have to go through the full path of the network (a gateway + 3 nodes). If a node in the path drop packets it will affect the score of other nodes in the test.',
   },
 ];
diff --git a/explorer/src/pages/Mixnodes/index.tsx b/explorer/src/pages/Mixnodes/index.tsx
index 7da8fe249d..da35f4a350 100644
--- a/explorer/src/pages/Mixnodes/index.tsx
+++ b/explorer/src/pages/Mixnodes/index.tsx
@@ -235,8 +235,8 @@ export const PageMixnodes: React.FC = () => {
     },
     {
       field: 'avg_uptime',
-      headerName: 'Avg. Uptime',
-      renderHeader: () => <CustomColumnHeading headingTitle="Avg. Uptime" />,
+      headerName: 'Routing Score',
+      renderHeader: () => <CustomColumnHeading headingTitle="Routing Score" />,
       headerClassName: 'MuiDataGrid-header-override',
       width: 160,
       headerAlign: 'left',