Website Technical Assessment

What a website technical assessment is

A website audit is a short, fixed-price review of the site you already run. I look at performance, code and plugin health, security basics, technical SEO, the editing experience and hosting, then tell you in plain language what is wrong, what to fix first and what each fix costs. You get a prioritised report and a walkthrough call, in five working days.

Who the assessment is for

• Your site is slow or unstable and you do not know whether to fix it or rebuild it.
• You inherited a site after a developer or agency left and need to know what is actually in it.
• You are planning a redesign or a move to Next.js and want the risks and the real cost before you commit a budget.
• You are an agency that wants a second pair of senior eyes on a client site before quoting.

What I check

• Performance and Core Web Vitals, using real-user data where your site has it and lab tests where it does not.
• Theme, plugin and code health: what is outdated, duplicated, abandoned or slowing every page.
• Security basics: updates, admin accounts, exposed files, backups.
• Technical SEO: indexing, redirects, canonicals, structured data and the pages that cannot be crawled.
• Editing experience: whether your team can change content without breaking the layout.
• Hosting and delivery: server response time, caching and CDN.
• Migration readiness, if a redesign or a move to Next.js is on the table.

What a finding looks like

Every item in the report follows the same shape, so you can act on it or hand it to someone else:

• What I found, with the evidence (a measurement, a screenshot or the line of code).
• Why it matters, in terms of speed, risk, rankings or editing effort.
• How to fix it, and whether it is a setting, a plugin swap or real development.
• Effort and priority, so the cheap high-impact fixes come first.

Typical findings are a theme or page builder shipping hundreds of kilobytes of unused code, images served at full size, third-party scripts blocking the first paint, plugins that do the same job twice, outdated components with known vulnerabilities, a slow server response, and pages that Google cannot reach or index.

How the assessment compares with a plugin scan or an automated audit

Automated tools such as PageSpeed Insights, Lighthouse and security scanners are useful, and I use them. They tell you what is slow, not why, and they cannot tell you whether to fix, rebuild or replace. The assessment adds the judgement: which findings matter for your site and your goals, in what order, and what each costs. It also covers things no tool checks, such as how your editors work and whether the code can be maintained.

What you get

1. A prioritised report: every finding, why it matters, and the effort to fix it.
2. A 45-minute walkthrough call where I explain it and answer questions.
3. A fixed quote for the fixes you choose, from speed fixes to a redesign or a migration to Next.js.

The report is yours. You can hand it to your own team or another developer, and I will not mind.

Price and timing

An assessment of a WordPress site starts at $450. WooCommerce stores and Next.js sites start at $750. If you go ahead with work on the same site within 60 days, the assessment fee is credited against it. Delivery takes five working days from when I have access.

What I need from you

The site address, read-only access to the WordPress admin (or a staging copy), access to Google Search Console and analytics if you have them, and a few lines on what is bothering you. I sign an NDA first if you want one.