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Website Audits & Optimisation

Let us find areas of improvement on your existing website.

What is a Website Audit?

Conducting an audit on a WordPress website involves examining various aspects to ensure it is optimised, secure, and functioning properly. Here’s a brief checklist of the things we look at:

Performance and Speed

  • Page Load Time: Measure load times and identify bottlenecks.
  • Caching: Ensure caching is enabled.
  • Image Optimisation: Check if images are optimised for web use.
  • Minification: Verify that CSS, JavaScript, and HTML files are minified.
  • Hosting Environment: Assess the hosting performance.

SEO (Search Engine Optimisation)

  • Meta Tags: Ensure proper use of meta titles and descriptions for each page.
  • SEO: Check SEO settings.
  • XML Sitemaps: Confirm that an XML sitemap is available and submitted to search engines.
  • Alt Text: Check that images have descriptive alt text for accessibility and SEO.
  • Permalinks: Ensure clean, SEO-friendly URL structures.

Security

  • Software Updates: Ensure WordPress core, themes, and plugins are up-to-date.
  • Security Plugins: Install and configure security plugins.
  • SSL Certificate: Verify that SSL is enabled for HTTPS connections.
  • User Accounts: Review user roles and permissions, noting any unnecessary or suspicious accounts.
  • Backups: Check that regular backups are in place.

Content Quality

  • Broken Links: Find and fix broken links.
  • Content Readability: Ensure content is clear and easy to read.
  • Media Library: Organise and remove unused media files to keep the library tidy.
  • Internal Linking: Assess internal linking structure for better navigation and SEO.

Functionality and Usability

  • Responsive Design: Verify the site is mobile-friendly.
  • Forms and Interactions: Test all forms and interactive elements for functionality.
  • Navigation: Ensure the site navigation is intuitive and easy to use.
  • Cross-Browser Compatibility: Test the website on different browsers to ensure consistency.

Compliance and Accessibility

  • Legal Pages: Ensure the presence of necessary legal pages like Privacy Policy and Terms & Conditions.
  • GDPR Compliance: Check if the site complies with GDPR regulations if you have customers in Europe.
  • Accessibility: Evaluate accessibility to ensure the site is usable for everyone.

Analytics and Monitoring

  • Analytics Setup: Confirm that Google Analytics or another analytics tool is properly set up.
  • Search Console: Verify integration with Google Search Console for monitoring search performance.
  • Error Monitoring: Check for any server or application errors in logs.

Report & Recommendations

If your website is more than a year or two old and it’s not on a care plan, you will probably benefit from a website audit. We’ll produce a comprehensive report on our findings with a costed list of recommendations and priority levels for fixing. 

Book your audit for $449*
*All prices are in $AUD

Website Audit FAQs

Got questions? Hopefully we’ve answered them below. If not, just ask.

How long does it take to do a Website Audit?

We aim to complete them within 5 business days but we’ll give you a more accurate estimate before you purchase.

Request a $449 WordPress Website Health Check!

What to expect:

  1. Submit the request form.
  2. We’ll do a quick review to see whether we think we can help.
  3. You’ll receive an invoice and a request to add us as a user on your site.
  4. We’ll go over every aspect of your site and prepare a report.
  5. You usually receive the report within 5 business days of us receiving payment and site access.
  6. If there are tasks to be actioned you’ll have the option of engaging our services. The first hour is free!

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