Find out what’s really going on with your website

A full check of your WordPress website, with a plain-language report of what’s working, what needs attention and how we can make it even better.

From the front, your website looks fine. People can find your pages, read your blog and sign up for your emails.

But behind it? You’re not so sure.

Maybe someone else built it and you never really learned how it works. Maybe you built it yourself years ago and kept adding to it. Either way, you have a feeling something isn’t right, you just don’t know how to fix it.

What if you break the whole thing? Where do you even start?

And that’s the hardest place to be in.

The Website Tech Audit gives you the picture you’re missing. We go through your entire WordPress website, behind the scenes and from the front, and tell you in plain language what we found and what we’d recommend. Nothing gets changed on your site without you knowing exactly what’s in front of you. You get the full picture so that you can make an informed decision without worrying about what you may accidentally break.

Your report arrives within five business days of us getting access.

Does this sound like your website?

Someone built your website for you, and now that they’re gone (or too busy), you don’t know how to change anything yourself.
There’s a tool or page builder on your site that you can’t use any more, because the subscription ran out or nobody remembers the login.
Your site has been added to, and added to, and added to. A blog, then an ebook, then a course, and somewhere along the way you lost track of what’s actually in there and what really converts.
You have a gazillion plugins, but you don’t know what half of them do. One thing you do know: they’re all out of date.
Every time you log in, there’s a row of update notices, and you close the tab because clicking them feels like a gamble.
You pay for a plugin licence every year, and you’re not completely sure it’s still active or if it’s still in your name.
Your website feels slow, especially on your phone, and you have no idea why.

If you nodded along to one or more of these, that’s okay. It doesn’t mean you did something wrong. The websites we look at usually belong to people who are good at what they do, and whose websites ran for years without anyone telling them to check what had piled up.

So, let us get to the bottom of it and give you a clear picture of what’s going on.

Get Your Website Tech Audit

We go through your whole WordPress website, from the settings behind the scenes to what your visitors see.

What we check

Your plugins and licences: what you use, what just sits there, what does the same job twice, and whether the plugins you pay for still get updates.
Your theme, page builder and updates: what your site is built with, and what’s waiting to be updated.
Speed and site health: how fast your site loads on mobile and desktop, and the warnings WordPress gives about your site.
Access and leftovers: who can still log in, and old templates and popups that aren’t used any more.
The live site: we click through it the way a visitor would, checking pages, links, images and sign-up forms.

What you get

A plain-language report with what’s fine, what needs attention and what we’d recommend, in order of priority. If you’d like us to do the clean-up, it includes a time estimate for each step.

How it works

Buy your audit.
You get an email from us asking for your website address and an admin user.
Your report arrives within five business days of us getting access.

Happy Clients

Working with Natalie on our website audit was genuinely eye-opening. Her thinking is incredibly methodical, and she drew out connections across our site that we simply hadn’t been aware of before.

What I valued most was how she explained everything - she never lost us in digital jargon, and she was always happy to walk us through things until they made sense to our non-website inclined minds! She could see the real potential in our pages and, very kindly, pointed out where we were getting in our own way, always with simple, practical solutions we could act on straight away. We came away with total clarity on what to fix and why.

Courtney

You can’t fix what you don’t know is there

Most website problems don’t announce themselves with sirens and alarm bells. Your site keeps working, more or less, while small things pile up behind it. And before you know it, that small thing grows into a much bigger problem. After all, you can’t fix something if you don’t know it exists.

Here’s the kind of thing we find:

A slow site on phones. One website we audited had everything up to date and nothing broken. Still, on a phone, the homepage took around 13 seconds before the main content showed. Most visitors won’t wait that long.
Plugins nobody needs. Sometimes we find that half of the plugins aren’t being used or do a job another plugin already does. Every extra plugin is one more thing to update, one more thing that can break, and one more thing that can ruin the user experience.
Links that go nowhere. On another site we reviewed, the most visited page was the error page that says a page can’t be found, because old links had broken and nobody had noticed.
Silent risks. Plugins that haven’t been updated in years (one of the most common reasons websites get hacked), a paid licence that ran out so the plugin stopped getting updates, or a payment form that’s about to stop working, costing you that important sale.

None of this means your website is a lost cause. Most sites just need a good tidy-up, but sometimes a rebuild really is the better option, and if that’s the case for yours, we’ll tell you honestly.

Your report arrives within five business days of us getting access.

Why WordPress?

Websites are built on all sorts of platforms, and each one has its own quirks.

We’ve chosen to focus on WordPress because that’s the platform we know best. That means we can concentrate on what we do well and give you advice that’s specific to your website, rather than a load of generic advice that may not apply to you.

Is your website built on another platform?

This particular audit is just for WordPress websites. If you’re not sure what yours is built on, just get in touch and we’ll help you figure it out.

Frequently Asked Questions

Will you change anything on my website?

No, the audit only looks. We don’t update, remove or change anything, so your website stays exactly as it is. If you’d like us to do the clean-up afterwards, that only happens after your yes, and we always make a full backup first.

What access do you need?

An admin user in your WordPress website. After you buy, you will get an email from us with the steps to create one. You can remove it again whenever you like after we’re done.

How long does it take?

Your report arrives within five business days of us getting access, and often sooner.

Will I understand the report?

Yes. Our reports are written in plain language, and when we use a technical term, we explain what it means for you. It starts with a short summary, so you know the most important things straight away.

What happens after the report?

That’s up to you. Some things you can fix yourself, and the report tells you how. For anything you’d rather hand over, we can do the clean-up for you, and the report includes a time estimate for each step. Or you can do a mix of both.

What if my website isn’t built with WordPress?

Then this particular audit isn’t for you. If your website runs through a different platform, please get in touch so that we can see how we can help.

Are my domain, hosting and email included?

No, the audit covers your WordPress website itself. Your domain, your hosting account, and the email that comes with your domain fall outside it.

What if I want more than my website looked at?

Then Tech Hours is probably a better fit. Book a free connection call, and we’ll work out together what you need.

Is a call or video included?

The audit is a written report. Sometimes we find something that’s easier to show than to explain, and then we’ll record a short video for you, but generally speaking, our reports are only text. If you’d like a call after receiving the report, you can book a Pick My Brain session.