This statement estimates the professional effort required to perform this assessment manually.
What the 187 represents. The register holds 187 defined checkpoints. A checkpoint is not a single test. It is an area that has to be established, and each one carries its own set of individual measures, from a handful to several hundred, depending on what the page or the document turns out to contain. A single checkpoint on links, for instance, resolves each link it finds and records what came back; a single checkpoint on tables walks each table in a document and follows each column to its heading.
On this estate those 187 checkpoints produced 1,968 individual measurements across 37 pages and 5 documents.
Why the scale grows so quickly. The same page does not read the same way to each system that asks for it. The answer changes with the reader, with whether scripts were run, with the device asked for, and with the format the content is served in. Taken across the answer engines and agents now in use, and the ways each of them reads a page, the checkpoints in this register span up to 345,000 permutations of reader, condition and content. That is the arithmetic behind the days below: not the number of checkpoints, but the number of separate things a person would have to establish, one at a time, to arrive at the same statement by hand.
The estimate covers operating a single assessment only. It assumes the assessment capability already exists, an invested platform (of the order of £2.5–2.8m) with a trained team in place to manage the crawler matrix, probe infrastructure and evidence tooling. No build or set-up effort is included.
| Activity | Days | At £612/day |
|---|---|---|
| Assessment scoping and estate discovery | 1 | £612 |
| Access verification (asking as each visitor in turn, with re-tests) | 2 | £1,224 |
| Analysis and evidence capture (1,968 measurements at 2 minutes) | 8 | £4,896 |
| Cross-validation and quality assurance (15%% of analysis) | 1 | £612 |
| Compilation and report production | 3 | £1,836 |
| Total | 15 | £9,180 |
Analysis is costed at 2 minutes per measurement for a practised operator working a 480-minute day, with the tooling already to hand. That is deliberately the fastest defensible pace and allows nothing for the judgement each measurement really needs; quality assurance at 15% of analysis effort; the day rate of £612 reflects a mid-market specialist consulting rate. Each quantity above is taken from this run’s own record, so the figure recomputes with each assessment.
This is an estimate only, prepared to indicate the scale of equivalent manual effort. It is not a quotation, a fee proposal, or a record of work performed.