Technical Site Audit

A Technical Site Audit evaluates how well a website has been designed and built to support visibility, performance, and long-term growth in search engines. It focuses on the underlying structure and technical decisions that directly affect how efficiently a site can be crawled, indexed, and ranked, as well as how well it performs for real users.

This audit should always be viewed in conjunction with the target market and opportunity identified in the Market Analysis Report, ensuring that technical recommendations are aligned with genuine demand rather than abstract best practice.

Key Areas Covered

The audit reviews the site as both a search engine and a user would experience it, with particular attention paid to the quality of implementation by the web designer or developer.

  • Site loading and performance
    Page speed, rendering behaviour, and loading efficiency, including how layout and assets affect user experience and crawl accessibility.
  • DOM structure and layout
    How content is structured and prioritised within pages, and whether key information is logically accessible and consistently presented.
  • Domain strength and history
    Signals related to age, trust, and authority, and how the domain’s history supports or limits future growth.
  • Indexation and coverage
    Alignment between the intended site structure and indexed pages, including identification of duplication, omissions, or crawl inefficiencies.
  • Internal linking logic and depth
    Is technical authority being driven to the most important sectors of your site?

This assessment helps identify where structural decisions may be limiting visibility or causing important pages to compete unnecessarily with one another.


Alignment With Commercial Objectives

Rather than applying generic technical rules, the audit evaluates whether the site’s technical setup supports the business objectives and the way customers actually search and engage within the market.

  • Key products or services that drive revenue
  • Search behaviour of the target audience
  • Competitive conditions identified in market research

Client Benefits

Technical issues often suppress performance quietly. Even strong content and marketing activity can be undermined by poor structure, inefficient indexing, or weak performance.

This audit provides:

  • Clear identification of technical constraints holding the site back
  • An assessment of build quality and implementation decisions
  • A prioritised technical foundation for SEO, content, and paid media activity

Summary

The Technical Site Audit is a structured evaluation of how effectively a website has been built to compete in its market. It does not replace development expertise or provide a checklist for implementation. Instead, it highlights where technical execution supports or undermines commercial performance.

Used alongside the Market Analysis Report, it ensures that technical improvements are driven by opportunity rather than assumption, and that future investment is built on a sound, scalable foundation.

Related Reports
MARKET ANALYSIS >

Do you know the profile of your customer, and how well you're currently reaching them?

COMPETITOR ANALYSIS >

Do the technical, indexable and functional aspects of your site compare well to those of your competitors?

USER JOURNEY ANALYSIS >

Will your website successfully convert this traffic, or are you creating doubt and frustration int he user experience?

EXPORTING ASSESSMENT >

Reach further and across borders, and see if another market holds great growth opportunities

PAID ADVERTISING AUDIT >

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ONLINE PERFORMANCE REPORT >

Combines every aspect fro each report, in a cohesive and deep reaching report - no stone left unturned or unreported.