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Each surface starts at 100. The worst issue costs its full penalty — Urgent 25, High 12, Medium 5 — and each further issue costs 30% less than the one before, because the fifth problem on a page does not damage it as much as the first.
| Surface | Urgent | High | Score | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Homepage | 1 | 6 | 50 | F |
| Navigation | 0 | 1 | 88 | B |
| Sports Article | 0 | 1 | 88 | B |
| Site-Wide Seo | 0 | 1 | 95 | A |
Grades: A 90+, B 80+, C 70+, D 60+, F below 60.
The sum of every finding's individual range. Each row is traffic × conversion × assumed lift band × order value:
| Finding | Lift band | Range |
|---|---|---|
| Consent wall blocks content | 2.0–8.0% | 0.4–1.6/1k |
| Multiple competing CTAs | 1.0–5.0% | 0.2–1.0/1k |
| No hero message | 1.0–5.0% | 0.2–1.0/1k |
| Path bypass via nav links | 1.0–5.0% | 0.2–1.0/1k |
| Rotating hero headlines | 1.0–5.0% | 0.2–1.0/1k |
| Missing H1 heading | 1.0–5.0% | 0.2–1.0/1k |
| No trust signals | 1.0–5.0% | 0.2–1.0/1k |
| Misleading price signals | 1.0–5.0% | 0.2–1.0/1k |
| Overloaded sports nav menu | 1.0–5.0% | 0.2–1.0/1k |
| Weak page metadata | 0.5–2.0% | 0.1–0.4/1k |
No traffic or order-value figures were supplied, so the total is a per-1,000-visitor rate against an assumed 2% baseline. Supply real figures and this becomes a dollar range.
Caveat that applies to every row: Across 127,000 experiments, 12% produced a statistically significant improvement on the primary metric; a healthy programme win rate is 10-30%. These are prizes if changes work, not forecasts.
A verified finding was measured directly — real-user field data, security headers, accessibility defects counted in the markup — and is reproducible by anyone. Everything else is expert inspection: valuable, but a hypothesis until tested.