Website maintenance cost: Website Care Plan Price Index

Every row is a verbatim sentence read from the named source's own page through our fetch service on the date shown, hash-pinned to the stored read (the sha of the page's visible text; the raw page is mirrored to R2).

14 of the 32 named sources that could be read published a usable figure; 18 published none and are recorded as not published, never filled in; 1 could not be read (blocked, dead or unreachable) and count nowhere.

The headline figures (median, minimum, maximum, quartiles) are over ONE figure per source in USD (a source's median where its page yielded several accepted sentences), so N counts sources, never sentences; 256 candidate sentence(s) were refused by a reviewer with the reason recorded.

The fuller derivation this dataset is chartered to grow into (not yet what the figures above are; they are each source's own published figure as read): the median, quartiles and range of the ADVERTISED monthly price of a care plan, per tier and per market, computed only over publishers that put a number on the page - and beside it the share of the market that does not, which is the finding: of the maintenance pages read on 2026-09-10, WP Buffs, SiteCare's own pricing page and ALT Agency published no readable number while GoWP ($0/site/mo entry), FixRunner ($59), Inspirable ($49.99), WP Site Plan ($79), Superpress ($97), Emily Journey ($299) and Valet ($2000/mo) did, a 40x spread on the same phrase.

Then the INCLUSION MAP: which of updates, backups, uptime, security, staging, malware removal and content edits each price buys, so a buyer can see what £65 in the UK and $299 in the US actually differ by; and the sterling-versus-dollar split, which nobody publishes side by side.

256 candidate sentences on these pages were refused by a reviewer; each refusal and its reason is recorded in the review ledger.