What Actually Happens in a Free WordPress Website Audit
A free website audit from Webganics is a hands-on review of a WordPress or WooCommerce site by the people who build and maintain them. The goal is simple: find what is putting the site at risk, what is slowing it down, and what is quietly broken, then explain in plain language what matters most. We only audit WordPress and WooCommerce sites, because that is the stack we work in every day.
What We Check
Every site is different, but every audit covers the same core areas.
Security
We look at how the site is actually protected, not just whether it shows a padlock in the browser bar. That includes outdated or abandoned plugins and themes, administrator accounts that should not be there, login protection, file permissions, and signs that something has been added to the site that does not belong. A site can look perfectly fine on the surface while being compromised underneath, which we cover in how to know if your site is actually secure.
Speed and Performance
We find what is slowing real pages down: oversized images, heavy plugins, scripts loading on pages that do not need them, caching that is missing or misconfigured, and a database carrying years of clutter. A slow site is rarely one problem, which is why we walk through the usual causes in what actually makes a WordPress site slow.
Plugins, Themes, and Updates
We review everything installed: what is out of date, what overlaps, what is no longer maintained, and what could be removed entirely. Plugin conflicts and duplicated features are some of the most common sources of both slowdowns and breakage.
WooCommerce and Checkout
If the site sells online, we test the path a customer actually takes: product pages, cart, and checkout, along with shipping, payment, and order email settings. A checkout that fails quietly costs a store more than almost any other problem.
Forms, Email, and Backups
We check that contact and lead forms actually deliver, that the site sends email reliably, and that backups are in place. These are the things nobody notices until the day they are needed.
Why We Need Admin Access
A useful audit needs a WordPress administrator login. From the outside, we can only see what a visitor sees. Inside WordPress, we can see what is actually installed, what is out of date, how the store is configured, and what each plugin is doing. Without that access, most findings would be guesses, and guesses are not worth your time.
The safest way to do this is to create a separate administrator account for us rather than sharing your own login. When the audit is done, you delete it.
Why SSH Access Lets Us Go Deeper
Admin access shows us WordPress. SSH access, or SFTP if that is what your host offers, shows us the server the site actually runs on, and that is where many of the real answers are.
With server access we can confirm the PHP version and resource limits, read the error logs that visitors never see, check for leftover or unexpected files, review caching and scheduled tasks, and see whether backups and disk space match what your host says they are. It turns a WordPress review into a full picture of the site and the machine underneath it.
SSH access is optional, but it makes a real difference. On a recent WooCommerce project, full access turned a single reported shipping problem into 45 findings, four of them critical. You can read how that played out in the Vendor Tags case study.
What Happens Next
Getting started takes a minute. Fill out the short form below, with Free Audit already selected as the project type, and make sure your site address is in the Site URL field so we know which site to review. You will get an email right away with what we need from you and a link to book a time. There is no cost and no obligation.
