WordPress Website Audits
When was the last time you gave your wordpress website a checkup? A website audit allows you to see potential problems on the horizon, before they cause any major issues.
WORDPRESS WEBSITE AUDITS
When was the last time you gave your wordpress website a checkup? If you’ve never before audited your website, it’s been a while since you have, or you’re planning a website redesign in the near future, let us begin the process with a website audit. Auditing a site highlights any problems, but also gives us a thorough understanding of your website so we can support it better than anyone else.
What actually is a Website Audit?
A website audit is an examination of a website and all its pages performance. This is typically carried out prior to a significant website redesign or prior to large-scale search engine optimization (SEO) or marketing campaign. Auditing your website can also determine whether or not it’s optimised to achieve your traffic goals, and if not, how you can improve it to increase performance. It will typically flag some performance issues or backend updates required.
What are the typical Benefits of a Website Audit?
Website Audits are hugely important for website maintenance to ensure that all the infrastructure is being managed according to industry best practice. The main benefits are:
- Improved Website Performance
- Better Search Engine Optimisation data
- Analysis of the User Experience
- Look at Competitor Website Performance
- Identify Performance Issues such as Site Speed
What will we typically look at during a complete audit?
Our team knows what to look for and how to analyse your website for the important factors. Our team is made up of both technical and marketing experts. We have a process that we follow in order to check everything.
The process is summarised below:
Collect what data is required from client
Run Your Website URL through various technical Site Auditing Tools
Find Technical Errors in the Backend
Identify the main SEO Problems
Analyse the overall Design and UX structure
Assess the Website Content
Generate a Checklist of All Site Issues and Recommended Fixes
Frequently Asked Questions About Website Audits
Here is more information regarding Website Audits.
For a complete audit, we need web hosting logins and also website (e.g. WordPress) logins. If you don’t have them we can help to reset them. We can run certain tools without these logins but for a comprehensive audit, these would be best. Alternatively you can put us in touch with your web developer or previous maintenance agency.
Yes, for our complete audits, you will get a specifically prepared report from one of our website specialists.
Our audits can be a one-off service. We will also carry out regular audits as part of a dedicated maintenance and support contract.
Yes. Our team will estimate the workload required for fixing all problems highlighted. You will get a proposal off work and estimate of hours to complete the upgrades.