Free website audit checklist PDF

Websites are rarely perfect. Most websites have small problems and room for improvement, whether it be in terms of speed, display issues on some devices, missing images, and so on. However, some websites have much bigger problems which frustrate their visitors, and might even prevent them from using the website at all in some cases.

You don't know
what you don't know!

Worryingly, many websites have problems that their owners are completely unaware of. If that applies to you, those unknown problems could be losing you businesses money and turning away potential customers.

If you feel that your website might be underperforming, this free audit downloadable PDF could be a great place to start.

This free printable website audit checklist aims to help you evaluate some of those areas of your website with over 140 checkpoints, including:

• website content
• missing and oversized image checks
• responsive testing on desktop, mobile and tablets
• checking for broken links
• primary and secondary navigation
• page speed *
• xml sitemaps
• cookie acceptance
• meta and header tags
• contact forms
• .htaccess files
• privacy policy
• ... and much more

* Page speed can differ when a website is viewed on a mobile and on a desktop or laptop. This is usually influenced by page structure and the use of appropriately sized images. Optimising your code and images is largely within the control of you or your web designer, but page speed can also be affected by factors outside of your control, such as the use of Google tracking tags, embedding YouTube videos, the presence of a chatbot and other things.