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How we count

This site publishes four figures about itself on its home page. This page sets out exactly what each one counts, what it deliberately leaves out, and the arithmetic in full. Nothing here is typed by hand. Every figure is counted from the finished site by the program that builds it, on the day it is built, and a check refuses to publish the site if a figure and the thing it counts ever disagree.

The page figure, line by line

Line	Count
Pages built as index.html	822
Less the two home pages, which index the site rather than adding to it	−2
Less the two site map pages, for the same reason	−2
Less the confirmation pages, reached only after a form is sent	−8
Less the retired addresses that hold nothing but a forward to a page already counted	−8
Pages a reader can open, and the figure on the home page	802
of which English	401
of which French	401

What each figure counts, and what it leaves out

Figure	Value	What it counts	What it omits
pages	802	Every page listed on the site map, in both languages	The twenty addresses in the table above
words	2,370,000	The article text of those pages, with the navigation, the right hand column, the forms and the standing disclosures removed first. Rounded down to the nearest ten thousand	Everything that is not the article. The unrounded count on this build was 2,371,389
diagrams	422	Every diagram drawn for this site, counted by its own class in the markup	Photographs. Six pictures of a person were being counted as diagrams until 19 September 2026
questions	4,468	Every question with a written answer, counted from the structured data a search engine reads	Nothing. The same questions are answered in both languages, so the figure is 2,234 distinct questions counted twice, which is said under the figure on the home page

The figures above were produced by the build of 20 September 2026.

Why this page exists

A figure a reader cannot reproduce is a figure they are being asked to take on trust, and there is no reason they should. Anybody who wants to check these numbers can do so from the site itself, without asking us, in about ten minutes. The method is below.

What these figures are not

None of these figures is a claim about performance, about any outcome, or about whether anything on this site is suitable for any particular person. None of them is a comparison with any other practice, and none is offered as one. They describe the size of a library and nothing else. Nothing on this site is personalized advice, and reading it creates no professional relationship.

If you are checking this on behalf of somebody

If you are verifying this for a regulator, for a compliance department, for a news desk, or because you simply want to know, here is how to do it without our help.

1. Open the site map. It lists every page on this site, grouped by subject, with a count beside each group. Add the group counts together. Do the same on the French site map. The two totals added together are the page figure on the home page. They will agree exactly, because they are the same count.
2. The four figures are regenerated on every build of this site. The date of the build that produced the figures now showing is stated in the table above.
3. If you find a figure on this site that you cannot reproduce, or that you believe is wrong, write to the address in the footer and say which one. A figure that cannot be defended will be corrected or removed, and we would rather hear it from you than not hear it.