Site Performance Audit
Web performance is crucial. It directly impacts user experience and SEO rankings, and encompasses ethical considerations such as accessibility, inclusion, and sustainability.
Our audit can help improve bounce rates, conversions, SEO performance, and more.
Using Core Web Vitals
Our team uses Core Web Vitals, the standard for measuring web performance, to offer comprehensive audits to enhance your digital platforms' speed, responsiveness, and efficiency.
Think of Core Web Vitals as the health checkup for websites, focusing on three key areas:
- How quickly the most important content on a page becomes visible to users.
- How stable the page is as it loads (ensuring the text doesn’t jump around as users are trying to read it).
- How quickly the site responds to user interactions, like clicking a button or link.
Why Do These Matter?
In an era where attention spans are short and patience even shorter, these vitals ensure that websites provide a welcoming and efficient experience. They're about making sure that when users visit a site, they can find what they need, enjoy browsing without interruption, and interact with it as effortlessly as turning the pages of their favourite book.
Book Your Free Consultation
The consultation includes:
- a discussion of your organisational needs
- what gaps might exist in your knowledge and skills
- a general introduction to web performance and our ways of working
Our Site Performance Audit Process
Our site performance audit team consists of James, Maria and Simon — three experts who've been improving site performance for years.
Our process will help ensure your site is as quick and inclusive as it can be.
Step 1. Free Consultation
The free consultation includes:
- A discussion on your organisational needs.
- A discussion on what the gaps might be in your knowledge and skills.
- A general introduction to site performance and our ways of working.
Email James on hello@agile.com to discuss how we could help your organisation.
Step 2. Audience Analysis
We begin by understanding your key user groups, often focusing on mid-range device users on a 4G connection, to ensure our benchmarks and optimisations are relevant and impactful.
Step 3. Content Analysis
Selecting five pages that represent different templates based on your site's most visited content allows us to diagnose and address performance issues across your digital presence effectively.
Step 4. Competitor Analysis
We analyse your competitors' performance to understand the industry standards and benchmarks. This comparative analysis helps identify areas where your site can gain a competitive edge in terms of speed and responsiveness.
Step 5. Benchmarks
We utilise WebPageTest to establish performance benchmarks for your chosen pages, focusing on Core Web Vitals to align our optimisation efforts with user experience.
Step 6. Diagnostic Audit
Our in-depth diagnostics examine critical aspects affecting web performance, including:
- The critical rendering path.
- Caching strategies.
- Third-party integrations.
- Image optimisation (formats, compression, resolution).
Step 7. Optimisation Report and Roadmap
We provide a prioritised list of actionable recommendations, tailored to Drupal where applicable, using the ICE scoring model to guide prioritisation and implementation.
The roadmap includes detailed steps and guidelines to help your team execute the optimisations effectively.
Related Services
User Experience (UX) Audit
SEO Audit
Content Audits
Accessibility Audit
Visual Design Audit
Web Analytics Audit
Book Your Free Consultation
The consultation includes:
- a discussion of your organisational needs
- what gaps might exist in your knowledge and skills
- a general introduction to web performance and our ways of working