Architecture, accessibility, environmental footprint and IT cost diagnostic
Three weeks to map your digital system, measure the accessibility of your public website, measure your home page on what your label's environmental footprint test takes into account and make it lighter, put a figure on what the whole thing really costs and name the dependencies that expose you.
- Duration
- 3 weeks
- Price
- 6,000 to 9,000 EUR, excl. VAT
- Format
- Fixed scope
- Deliverable
- Map of the system, accessibility audit, environmental footprint measurement before and after, priced inventory of subscriptions and suppliers, prioritised action plan
- Who it is for
- Tourist offices, local authorities and SMEs with no IT department
Prices exclude VAT. The VAT treatment depends on your organisation's status and is stated in the written note.
You know a public website has to be accessible, that the mandatory notice is not at the bottom of your page, and that someone will eventually ask you about it. You also know you pay for subscriptions whose use you no longer remember, and that if your supplier disappeared tomorrow you would not know where the keys are. If your office is preparing its label assessment, you are also asked for an attestation from your supplier on the website's environmental footprint, and your home page can be tested with a public tool. What you do not have is the time and the vocabulary to put those questions to someone who has nothing to sell you afterwards.
The diagnostic answers them in three weeks, in a single document. Accessibility is measured on your website as it stands, with the method the administration uses to check it, and you leave with the documents to publish. Your home page's environmental footprint is measured on the three quantities the label's test takes into account, before and after the fixes, and the attestation is handed to you attached to the measurement. Costs are matched line by line against what you actually use. Dependencies are named: who can block you, on what, and what it takes for that to stop being the case.
The report is written for a director, not for an IT department. Each finding says what it costs to do nothing, what the fix costs and who can do it. The action plan is ranked so that you can deal with the top of the list only, if the budget allows no more.
What you keep at the end: the map, the audit report, the three accessibility documents, the two footprint measurements and the attestation, the cost inventory and the action plan, all in your own files. After that, you rerun the label's test yourself before each assessment. When only the environmental footprint is pressing, this part can be ordered on its own, at 1,200 to 1,800 EUR excluding VAT: your home page measured before and after, the fixes to what carries weight and the attestation attached to the measurement, for a website whose access your organisation holds; a website on a shared platform you do not configure yourself goes through the note. The diagnostic commits you to nothing else. It can be followed by a fix from your supplier, by a fractional direction engagement, or by nothing at all.
The price: 6,000 to 9,000 EUR excluding VAT for the diagnostic, depending on the sample of pages agreed with you. A fresh accessibility measurement after the fixes is offered separately, at 400 to 1,000 EUR excluding VAT, never included silently. The written note that follows the first call sets the exact figure within these ranges, with the scope, the duration and the VAT line; anything beyond the scope is a separate line, never a higher price for the same package.
What you get
- A one-page map of your digital system: the website, hosting, email, business software, the flows between them, and who holds each access.
- An accessibility audit of your public website, carried out with the method the administration uses to check it, on a sample of ten to twenty-five page types agreed with you: every gap found, its severity and the fix to apply.
- The three documents the accessibility obligation requires you to publish, ready to go online: the accessibility statement, the multi-year plan and the current year's action plan.
- A measurement of your home page on the three quantities your label's environmental footprint test takes into account (the number of elements that make up the page, the number of files requested from the server, the weight transferred), before and after fixes to what carries weight, and the attestation the label asks of the website's supplier, attached to the measurement. You get the grade itself, from A to G, by running the label's test yourself.
- A priced inventory of all your digital subscriptions and contracts, with the duplicates, the services nobody uses, and what you can cancel from next month.
- The list of dependencies that expose you: the supplier who alone holds the domain name, the backup nobody has tested, the access that rests on a single person.
- An action plan ranked by urgency and cost, which you can hand to your current supplier, to another one, or to me, without the diagnostic committing you to anything.
How it runs
Week 1: collection
One interview with you, one with the person who runs the website day to day, a reading of your contracts, invoices and access, and the first measurement of your home page. You provide what you have; what you cannot find is part of the findings.
Week 2: examination
Accessibility tested page by page on the agreed sample, fixes to what carries weight on the home page, hosting, backups and access verified, subscriptions matched against actual use. You are not called on that week.
Week 3: handover
The report reaches you two days before a one-hour video call, with the second measurement of the home page and the attestation attached. You come out of it with the action plan, the accessibility documents to publish and the figures to decide what you do next.
Guides linked to this offer
All guides-
What Polytechnique's digital business course does not say
École polytechnique offers a course on Coursera, Digital business, on platforms: the businesses that connect two groups and hold the passage between them, as Booking does between the traveller and the host. Its readings date from 2013 to 2016. Since then, a new passage has opened between the visitor and your website: machines read your pages and answer the visitor, so that the answer often comes without a visit. For a tourist office, a local authority or a service SME, dealing with it still needs no budget: count bookings instead of visits, keep each piece of information in one place, keep your data in your own hands.
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Destination d'Excellence label: the sobriety test of your website, what it measures and where to start
The Destination d'Excellence label asks tourist offices for an attestation from their supplier on the website's digital sobriety, that is, on how few resources it consumes (criterion 138). A note from Atout France adds that the home page can be tested on a public tool, ecoindex.fr, and reads the resulting letter, from A to G, on four levels. This letter ranks the page against the other pages measured, from three quantities recorded as the page loads: it does not measure the effort put into the website. What is up to you: run this measurement before the assessment, date it, and send no attestation without it.
A digital problem to put on the table?
Thirty minutes on video. You set out the situation, I say what I understand of it and whether I can help.