A WordPress site audit done well takes a day and surfaces three to five issues. Done badly, it produces a 40-page PDF nobody reads. Here are the 12 checks that earn the day.
Yes. I catch the things that quietly sink rankings: crawl blockers, speed drops, and broken page elements on your key pages. Most ranking damage I see started as a maintenance miss nobody noticed for months. If search is the bigger concern beyond routine upkeep, my Technical SEO service covers the dedicated audit and implementation work.
Lighthouse scores measure what a 30-second synthetic test sees. Real WordPress performance is the user, page, and template view. Here is how to audit it.
An LMS solves tracking and compliance well; delivery and content management poorly. Here are the four flavours that dominate, the decision matrix, and the audit before you sign.
CAN-SPAM has seven requirements. The most violated one is the easiest to fix: a physical postal address in every commercial email. Here is the 10-minute audit.
From the archive. I wrote this back in 2014 and I’m leaving it published because the thinking still has value, but on 2 May 2026 I cleaned up some imported page chrome (old menus, sidebars, ad blocks from a previous CMS) so it renders properly, and I removed outbound links and old contact emails to…
From the archive. I wrote this back in 2011 and I’m leaving it published because the thinking still has value, but on 2 May 2026 I cleaned up some imported page chrome (old menus, sidebars, ad blocks from a previous CMS) so it renders properly, and I removed outbound links and old contact emails to…
From the archive. I wrote this back in 2008 and I’m leaving it published because the thinking still has value, but on 2 May 2026 I cleaned up some imported page chrome (old menus, sidebars, ad blocks from a previous CMS) so it renders properly, and I removed outbound links and old contact emails to…
From the archive. I wrote this back in 2006 and I’m leaving it published because the thinking still has value, but on 2 May 2026 I cleaned up some imported page chrome (old menus, sidebars, ad blocks from a previous CMS) so it renders properly, and I removed outbound links and old contact emails to…