WordPress Audit

The Ultimate WordPress Website Audit & DIY Guide

Our mission is to deliver the industry’s most comprehensive WordPress website audit, designed to unlock your site’s full potential. The audit goes beyond surface issues, identifying key opportunities for growth and optimisation, and provides you with a clear, actionable roadmap to elevate performance, security, and user experience.

Specifically designed for non-technical stakeholders looking to fully understand and improve the website function.

Our audit aims to answer the following questions:

Is your website fit for purpose and doing what it should be?
Is your website secure and compliant?
Are there any issues that you're not aware of?
Are there opportunities to improve your website’s performance?
What is the short, medium, and long-term future of your website?
How well is your website performing on Google?

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<5 days

From payment to report in 5 working days.

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GDPR compliant

Protect your business from legal penalties and build trust.

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Comprehensive

The ultimate audit with actionable and easy-to-understand results.

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Bonus Consultation

Post report Zoom consultation
(not a sales call)

A Strong foundation for your website

The Ultimate WordPress Website Audit helps reveal hidden issues, opportunities to optimise site performance and SEO and empowers you to know where you are at and what you should do next.

We live and breathe WordPress and we want to help non-technical folk get better results with the platform. So we’ve made this WordPress audit process public, it’s built on the shoulders of giants, harnessing some of the best SAAS tools and plugins available.

We don’t just provide a report; we offer the most comprehensive and detailed actionable insights in the industry that can take your website to the next level.

1 Comprehensive audit
8 Key areas

The Ultimate WordPress Website Audit is a single, all-encompassing audit that includes eight critical sub-audits:

1. WordPress Configuration Audit

Is your website set up for success?

Incorrect WordPress settings can impact performance, SEO, and security. Key elements of this part of the audit include:

Site Settings: Getting the basics right—indexing, permalinks, time zones, and language options.
Plugin Management: Evaluating active plugins for necessity and efficiency.
Theme Optimisation: Ensuring your theme is properly configured and up to date.

Why it matters: A solid foundation ensures your website runs smoothly and efficiently, setting the stage for everything else.

2. WordPress Performance Audit

Is your website running at optimal speed?

Nobody likes a slow website. It frustrates visitors and sends them straight to competitors. Key elements of this part of the audit include:

Unoptimised Images: Large files that drag down load times.
Suitable Hosting: Ensuring the web hosting server is a good fit for the website’s needs.
Caching Issues: Are pages being cached?.
Lighthouse Checks: What does google think of the performance?

Why it matters: Faster websites lead to happier visitors and better search engine rankings

3. WordPress SEO Audit

Are you maximising your visibility on Google?

If your site isn’t showing up where it should, you’re missing out on potential visitors. We’ll uncover hidden SEO opportunities by analysing:

Keyword Usage: What keywords are ranking for your website?
Meta Tags and Descriptions: Optimising for better click-through rates.
Content Structure: Ensuring your headings and content are search-engine friendly.

Why it matters: Better SEO means more organic traffic and reaching the right audience.

4. WordPress Security Audit

Is your website protected against threats?

Protect your customer data and your reputation.

Updates Check: Ensuring WordPress core, themes, and plugins are up to date.
Malware Scanning: We’ll look for any malicious code.
Security Protocols: We’ll verify your site is using an SSL and setup correctly.

Why it matters: Protecting your site safeguards your reputation and builds trust with your visitors

5. WordPress Metrics Audit

Do you understand your website’s performance metrics?

Data is the key behind making good strategic decisions, but only if you know how to use it. We’ll assess your analytics setup to make sure you’re tracking what really counts:

User Behaviour: Are you getting insights into how people use the site?.
Conversion Tracking: Are you tracking goals, sign-ups, and sales.
Tracking problems: Is tracking setup correctly?.

Why it matters: Making informed, data-driven decisions propels your website and business success.

6. WordPress Legal & Compliance Audit

Is your website legally compliant and protecting user privacy?

Stay ahead of regulations to avoid fines and build trust with users. Key areas include:

Privacy Policy & Terms: Ensure GDPR or other regional compliance with updated policies.
Cookies Consent: Proper banner implementation and logging.
Data Protection: Use SSL/HTTPS and define clear data retention policies.

Why it Matters: Compliance protects your business from penalties, builds customer trust, and safeguards your reputation.

7. WordPress User Experience & Accessibility Audit

Is your website easy to use and accessible to everyone?

A poor user experience or lack of accessibility can frustrate visitors and exclude potential customers. Key elements of this audit include:

Navigation & Structure: Ensuring intuitive menus and a logical layout for easy browsing.
Mobile Responsiveness: Verifying your site functions seamlessly across all devices.
Accessibility Standards (WCAG): Checking compatibility with screen readers, colour contrast, and keyboard navigation.
Visual Inspection by desktop and mobile.

Why it matters: A user-friendly and accessible site keeps visitors engaged and ensures it complies with accessibility laws, boosts conversions, and improves SEO.

8. WordPress Risk Assessment Audit

Is your website prepared for future growth and compliance?

This audit evaluates your site’s readiness for scalability, usability, and legal compliance based on information from previous audits. Key elements include:

Scalability: Assessing how well the website can handle growth, traffic spikes, additional features, or future expansions without requiring a complete overhaul.
Usability: Evaluating how easy it is for your team to update and manage the site. Can non-technical users create content and make updates with ease?
Compliance: Reviewing current compliance with privacy laws (GDPR) and accessibility standards.

Why it Matters: Addressing these risks now ensures your site can grow with your business, remains user-friendly for updates, and avoids costly legal issues down the line.

Meet Julian

Your WordPress Audit Expert

Julian brings a wealth of real-world experience to the table. Best known as the visionary co-founder of Achology, the founder of Jellyhound and the co-owner of WPTweaks, he’s a WordPress advocate who regularly attends WordPress events and has many years in both WordPress development and support.

“I’m all about turning WordPress woes into wins. As the creator of our WordPress website audit service, I’m most happy when I help uncover how to make your site better and best of all, giving you the insight you need to figure out…. what next.”

Julian Young

Jellyhound Founder

Clear action plan

Your Step-by-Step Action Plan

We don’t just leave you with a list of problems. If you allow us to conduct the audit for you, we’ll provide you with a prioritised action plan that includes the good, the bad and the ugly:

WordPress Audit Methodology

Leave no stone unturned

We deploy a multi-layered approach that combines great SaaS tools and best practices, where possible we try to use tools that are easily accessible to non-professionals so you can do it yourself!

Manual Review
SaaS Performance Tools
Saas Security Tools
WordPress Plugins
Google Analytics
Google Search Console
SEO Analysis Tools
GDPR Compliance Analysis Tools

Trusted by Marketing Professionals

"Each time we come up with a new challenge, the team rises to it with good humour and highly appreciated advice on how to approach new ideas. They help us think through every aspect of the project, and go above and beyond each time. I cannot recommend them highly enough."

“We are absolutely delighted with the service you and your team have provided us to date, and can’t wait to improve our website further with Jellyhound’s expertise.”

"They’ve been with me every step of the way as my website has grown and developed. They’ve been consistently professional, supportive, creative, punctual and very patient"

Free bonus!

Bonus personalised post-audit call

We won’t just leave you with a report. You’ll get a personalised 20-minute Zoom consultation with one of our senior experts to talk through the findings and answer any of your questions to help you prioritise the next steps for immediate improvements. We promise that this is not a sales call.

Take action today

Ready for actionable insights that will transform your website? No more wasted hours troubleshooting, uncertainty over performance or security blind spots.

100% money-back guarantee* Scroll down for more details

Why we charge upfront?

We take supporting our members seriously. We want to help make your life easier and support your website in the best way possible.

When you invest in our website audit package upfront, it tells us you’re serious too.

You’re ready to be supported and understand how important your role and your website are to your business. You’re exactly the kind of marketing professional we love to work with and we hope to speak with you soon.

*Our 100% money-back guarantee

We’re confident in the value we provide so we offer a 100% money-back guarantee with our in-depth audit service.

If, after our in-depth audit, we cannot find any significant areas of improvement for your website (related to security vulnerabilities, security processes, performance optimisation or SEO errors) we’ll offer you a full refund – yes, after doing all that work.

Empowering you

Carry out your own audit

Of course we’d love to do the audit for you, but we are equally happy for you to do it yourself and get value out of the process.

When you invest in our audit, you will receive a report bundled with clear, prioritised, and actionable points that show you what you can do yourself and where you might need to seek out a technical expert. We also bundle it with a bonus consultancy call so you can ask questions and dig a little deeper.