WordPress Website Audits
About Our Website audits
How can you improve your website’s performance? Are you maximizing its potential for your business? How do you increase the search engine rankings for your site? Where do you start?
Hire Us To Run An Audit of Your Website
Our WordPress website audit looks at every aspect of your website, but we also review and suggest best practices associated with running your website. It helps identify any bugs or where improvements can be made – essentially, it is a thorough analysis of your sites strengths and weaknesses and how well you are leveraging its potential.
9 Elements Audited
We take a look at 9 aspects of running a successful website and will supply you with a detailed report of the following:
1. Infrastructure
Server Features
- You are running the most stable version of your server software stack
- Your PHP memory limits are sufficient for your website
- Your disc space is sufficient for your site
- Your bandwidth is appropriate for your site's traffic
- Your database is stable
Theme & Plugins Review
- You are running a well maintained and un-bloated theme
- You are running well maintained and recommended plugins
2. Security
Server
- Your server has a firewall
- Your server is hardened with other WordPress specific rules
Website
- You have a unique username policy
- You have a strong password policy
- You have brute force attack protection
- You are running the latest versions of your core, theme and plugins
- You have removed unused theme and plugins
SSL
- Your SSL certificate is properly set and configured
3. Usability
Design, Fonts & Colours
- Your site's design is of good quality (adhering to Graphic Design principles)
- Your images and logos are clear
- Your fonts are consistent
- Your colours are consistent with your brand
Layout & User Experience
- Your website's layout & content is design for your ideal user
- The design of your site facilitates call to actions and site goals
- Your primary navigation menu is well designed
- You have relevant multi-lingual solutions installed
Responsiveness
- Your site adjusts properly to tablets and mobile phones
4. Performance
- Your website's code is cleaned and optimised
- Your images are correctly sized, optimised and delivered for various browsers
- You use server side caching if appropriate
- You have a good website caching plugin installed
- You use a Content Delivery Network if appropriate
- Your website's pages score well on speed tests both for mobile and desktop
5. Search Engine Optimisation
Search Engines
- Your site has been added to Google Search Console & Bing
- You have properly setup and submitted the website's sitemap
- You have no crawling issues detected
- You have clean permalinks
- You've setup Google My Business Listing if appropriate
Image Alt Tags
- All your images have a defined alt attribute
Content Quality
- You have original, well-researched and relevant content
- You publish content regularly
- You make use of schema markup were appropriate
- You have well defined and appropriately sized meta titles & descriptions
- You use H1-H6 heading tags for content hierarchy
Links
- You are monitoring and redirecting broken links
- You have relevant internal and outbound linking
- You have quality backlinks
Analytics
- You have installed software to monitor visitor metrics and campaigns
6. Tools Automation
Forms
- Your website's forms are functioning
- Submissions are connected to relevant CRM (if necessary)
Emails
- You have auto-responder emails setup where relevant
- You are leveraging marketing automation tools to nurture your prospects
Social
- You use social scheduling software if needed
7. Social Media
Channels & Content
- You have setup appropriate social channels for your business
- Your channels have links to your website
- Your social channels match the design of your website's brand
- You've added appropriately sized images to your content for social sharing
- You have a social strategy and calendar for sharing content
Sharing
- Your website content has social share buttons displayed
8. Legal
- You have appropriate licences for all your software & content
- You display copyright notice on your website
- You have a privacy policy in place and displayed on your site
- You have terms and conditions accessible for clients
- You have a cookies policy and its displayed were relevant
9. Maintenance
- You have scheduled backups set up
- Your backups are pushed to at least 2 separate cloud locations
- Your backups are easily restorable
- You are monitoring your website's uptime
Request An Audit Quote
Please use the form below to request a WordPress website audit quote. We’ll get back to you soon.
Frequently Asked Questions
If you have any questions not answered here, please feel free to contact us.
It depends on how many elements you require in an audit. But to give you an idea, a WordPress website audit that reviews usability, performance & maintenance will cost $160 + GST.
For an average size website, and depending on our availability, it should not take any longer than 2 days.
Yes. We’ll provide you with a comprehensive written report in PDF together with any suggestions for improvements needed on your website.
