How much does a website audit cost?
Less than you've been quoted — or 1,000× more than ours.
Published agency pricing runs from $100 to $5,000+ for what is loosely called "a website audit." Here's what each price tier actually buys, why the same site gets quoted $800 or $8,000, and where a £7.99 audit fits.
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What audits cost, in one paragraph
What website audits cost in 2026
What agencies and freelancers publicly charge (September 2026). Full disclosure: we sell the £7.99 card. We've done our best to be fair to the other four — including a whole section on when you should skip us and pay $1,000+.
DIY with free tools
PageSpeed Insights, Search Console, online checkers. You run them, you interpret them — each covers one category, one page at a time.
- One category per tool, one page at a time
- You interpret every result yourself
- Prioritization and fix planning are on you
Basic audit
Freelancer or small agency. Usually template-driven — one category deep or many categories shallow.
- A findings list across a few categories
- A findings list — interpretation varies by provider
- Depth varies — check what's in the deliverable
Strategic audit
The mid-market default. A consultant leads the work: analysis, competitor research, a strategy deck, a walkthrough call.
- Human interpretation and judgment
- Competitor research + strategy deck
- Strong fit when strategy is the actual need
Enterprise audit
Multi-stakeholder process, manual testing with real assistive-tech users, compliance-grade documentation. Turnaround 4–8 weeks.
- Certified manual accessibility testing
- Compliance-grade documentation
- WCAG/ADA-grade work alone: $1,500–$5,000
Full report
Everything checked, ranked, and explained — written about your site, delivered to your inbox.
Order from the form at the top or the bottom of this page — £7.99 one-time (your currency at checkout), PDF in ~30 minutes.
- 260+ checks across 21 categories, up to 25 pages
- Every finding ranked by impact, with fix guidance
- Executive briefing + 90-day roadmap
Compare every tier side by side
| Price | What you get | Turnaround | Best for |
|---|---|---|---|
| $0 | DIY with free tools — each covers one category, one page at a time. You interpret everything. | Your evenings | Tinkerers with time and expertise |
| $100–$800 | Basic audit. Template-driven, one category deep or many shallow. A findings list, light on interpretation. | Days–2 weeks | A first pass on a small site |
| $1,000–$3,500 | Mid-market strategic audit. Consultant-led: analysis, competitor research, a strategy deck, a walkthrough call. | 2–4 weeks | Established businesses with budget |
| $5,000–$10,000+ | Enterprise / comprehensive. Multi-stakeholder, manual testing with real users, compliance-grade documentation. (WCAG/ADA-grade accessibility audits alone: $1,500–$5,000.) | 4–8 weeks | Regulated businesses, litigation defense |
| £7.99 | YourSiteIsBroken. 260+ checks across 21 categories, up to 25 pages: SEO, speed, security (TLS, certificates, cookies, banners), accessibility, legal, AI-readiness. A written consultant-grade report — executive briefing, every finding ranked by cost, fix plan, 90-day roadmap. | ~30 minutes | Anyone who wants to know what's broken, now |
Sources: publicly listed agency and freelancer audit pricing as published in 2026. Ranges overlap — that's the point of the next section.
Why the same audit gets quoted $800 — or $8,000
Send one identical site to three providers and you'll get three wildly different numbers. The audit didn't change. Four things did:
Who's bidding
An agency prices in office rent and salaries, a freelancer prices in evenings, software prices in compute. The same checks can sit under very different invoices — the gap is mostly the cost structure, not the audit.
Human hours
Manual audits bill people-time for much of what software can check in minutes. Those hours genuinely buy interpretation and judgment — a real thing, and often more than a small site needs.
Site size & depth
25 pages versus 5,000; one category versus all 21. Scope moves the number more than quality does.
Turnaround
Four weeks is typical — audits queue behind other client work. Rush it and you're often paying for the reshuffle, not the audit.
What £7.99 buys — and what it doesn't
No audit should pretend to be something it isn't. Here's the whole truth:
The full report
Your whole site, through the eyes of Google and ChatGPT.
- Up to 25 pages audited
- 260+ checks, 21 categories
- Overall grade + AI-Readiness score
- Executive briefing, written about your site
- Every finding ranked by what it costs you, with fix guidance
- Prioritized fix plan + 90-day roadmap
- Delivered by email in ~30 minutes
— Not included
What the $1,000+ tiers sell that we don't:
- Strategy engagements & competitor research
- Manual testing with real assistive-tech users
- Calls, decks, stakeholder workshops
- A retainer relationship
If you need those, that's what the $1,000+ tiers are for. But buy the £7.99 report first — it tells you whether the expensive engagement is even necessary. Most sites have 30–60 unfixed basics before strategy enters the conversation.
When you should pay $1,000+
Compliance & litigation
Facing an ADA demand letter or need VPAT-grade documentation? That requires certified manual testing — the $1,500–$5,000 tier. Our audit finds the accessibility failures; it doesn't certify the remediation.
Large replatforming
Migrating thousands of URLs is an engineering project with an audit component. Software coverage helps, but you want humans accountable for the cutover.
You need a strategist
If the question is "what should we do this year" rather than "what's broken," buy strategy hours. Just walk into that engagement knowing what's broken — it makes the strategy better.
Fair questions, straight answers
How can a full website audit cost £7.99?
Your £7.99 pays for the crawl and the report build — that's the whole cost structure. The findings come from a deterministic engine (260+ checks, the same ones every run), and the pipeline runs from crawl to delivery without a consultant in the loop. There's no call to schedule and no retainer to sell, so there's nothing else to price in. Judge the sample report before you buy.
Is a cheap audit worse than an expensive one?
It depends what you're paying for. Expensive audits buy human hours — manual testing, strategy, accountability; ours buys coverage: 260+ checks across 21 categories on up to 25 pages, interpreted and prioritized in writing. A $2,000 audit can absolutely be worth it when it includes what ours doesn't. Coverage and price aren't the same axis — check what's in the deliverable before you compare numbers.
Should I just use the free tools instead?
If you have the time to run a dozen tools and the expertise to interpret them — genuinely, yes. Free tools each cover one category on one page. The value of any audit, cheap or not, is whole-site coverage plus someone telling you what to fix first.
Does a £7.99 audit replace an agency?
No — it replaces not knowing. It's the diagnosis: every finding ranked, with fix guidance any developer can execute. Agencies sell the treatment. Start with the diagnosis; it's cheaper than being sold treatment for symptoms you haven't verified.
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