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Website Audit Service

One Audit. Every Blind Spot. Zero Guesswork.

200+
Checkpoints
Per audit
10
Business Days
Turnaround
6
Audit Pillars
One deliverable
100%
Actionable
Prioritized fixes
What Is a Comprehensive Website Audit?

A website audit looks at your site across six dimensions: technical SEO, content quality, user experience, security, runtime performance, and AI-citation readiness. Most audits pick one area and stop there. This one doesn't. It shows how problems compound across disciplines — a slow page hurts your SEO rankings, kills the user experience, and makes it far less likely that AI systems will ever surface your content.

Wo Projekte scheitern

You hired three vendors for three separate audits and got contradictory recommendations Wasted budget, conflicting priorities, and months of paralysis instead of progress.
Core Web Vitals are failing but nobody can explain the business impact to leadership Google ranking erosion accelerates quietly until organic traffic drops 30-50%.
AI assistants like ChatGPT and Perplexity never cite your content You're losing a growing slice of zero-click traffic to competitors who've structured their content for LLM consumption.
Security headers and SSL configuration haven't been touched since launch One vulnerability becomes a data breach, a regulatory fine, and a reputation crisis.
Content gets published on a calendar but nobody's measuring topical authority or cannibalization Pages compete against each other in SERPs and dilute ranking potential across your entire domain.
The dev team says the site is fast, but real users on mobile are waiting 6+ seconds for pages to load Lab scores mask field performance — actual bounce rates climb while the team celebrates metrics that don't mean what they think they mean.

Compliance

Technical SEO Analysis

Crawlability, indexation, canonical chains, hreflang, XML sitemaps, and internal linking architecture. We identify every barrier between your content and Google's index.

Core Web Vitals & Performance

Field data from CrUX, lab data from Lighthouse, and waterfall analysis for every critical page template. Prioritized by traffic impact, not vanity scores.

Content Quality & Topical Authority

Content gap analysis, keyword cannibalization mapping, E-E-A-T signal audit, and thin content identification. Every page gets a keep, merge, rewrite, or kill recommendation.

UX & Accessibility Review

WCAG 2.2 AA compliance check, mobile usability audit, navigation heuristics, and conversion funnel friction analysis. Accessibility isn't optional — it's a ranking factor.

Security Posture Assessment

HTTP security headers, SSL/TLS configuration, mixed content detection, dependency vulnerability scan, and OWASP Top 10 surface review. We flag what attackers would find first.

AI-Citation Readiness

Structured data validation, content formatting for LLM extraction, FAQ schema coverage, and source authority signals. We prepare your site to be cited by ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini.

Was wir bauen

Executive Summary Dashboard

A single-page scorecard with red/yellow/green ratings across all six pillars — built for C-suite review, not just developers.

Prioritized Fix Matrix

Every finding ranked by effort vs. impact so your team knows exactly what to fix first for maximum ROI.

CrUX Field Data Integration

Real-user performance data from the Chrome User Experience Report, not synthetic lab tests.

Competitor Benchmarking

Side-by-side comparison of your audit metrics against your top three organic competitors.

AI Visibility Score

Proprietary scoring of how likely AI systems are to cite your content, based on structured data, authority signals, and content format.

90-Day Remediation Roadmap

A phased action plan with sprint-ready tickets your dev and content teams can pick up immediately.

Unser Prozess

01

Intake & Scoping

We collect access credentials, define priority page templates, identify your top three competitors, and align on business KPIs. No generic checklist — every audit is scoped to your specific goals.
Days 1-2
02

Automated & Manual Crawl

Full-site crawl with Screaming Frog and custom scripts, supplemented by manual inspection of critical templates. We catch technical SEO issues, broken resources, and structural problems that automated tools miss.
Days 3-5
03

Deep-Dive Analysis

Performance profiling, security scanning, content quality assessment, UX heuristic evaluation, and AI-citation readiness testing across all six audit pillars.
Days 5-8
04

Report Assembly & QA

Findings get synthesized into the executive dashboard, prioritized fix matrix, and 90-day roadmap. Every recommendation goes through peer review by a second senior auditor before it reaches you.
Days 8-9
05

Delivery & Walkthrough

A 60-minute video call walks your team through every finding, priority, and recommended next step. Includes 30 days of follow-up Q&A.
Day 10
Screaming FrogLighthouseAhrefsChrome DevToolsOWASP ZAPSchema ValidatorNext.jsVercel

Häufige Fragen

Was ist in einem umfassenden Website-Audit enthalten?

Das Audit deckt sechs Säulen ab: Technical SEO (Crawlability, Indexation, strukturierte Daten), Core Web Vitals Performance, Content Quality und Topical Authority, UX und Accessibility, Security Posture und AI-Citation Readiness. Sie erhalten ein Executive Dashboard, eine priorisierte Fix-Matrix, Competitor Benchmarks und eine 90-Tage-Remediation Roadmap — alles in einem Deliverable.

Wie lange dauert ein vollständiges Website-Audit?

Zehn Geschäftstage vom Kickoff bis zur Lieferung für Sites unter 2.000 Seiten. Größere Sites oder Multi-Domain-Audits benötigen möglicherweise 15 Geschäftstage. Wir bestätigen die Timeline im Scoping Call basierend auf der Komplexität Ihrer Site und wie viele Page Templates beteiligt sind.

Was ist AI-Citation Readiness und warum ist das wichtig?

AI-Citation Readiness misst, wie wahrscheinlich es ist, dass Large Language Models — ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini — Ihre Inhalte referenzieren, wenn sie Fragen beantworten. Wir schauen auf strukturierte Daten Coverage, Content Formatting, Authority Signals und FAQ Schema, um sicherzustellen, dass Ihre Site für den wachsenden Traffic-Anteil positioniert ist, der mit einem KI-Assistenten beginnt und nicht mit einer Suchleiste.

Wie unterscheidet sich das von einem kostenlosen SEO-Audit-Tool?

Kostenlose Tools führen automatisierte Crawls durch und kennzeichnen oberflächliche Probleme. Dieses Audit verbindet automatisierte Scans mit manueller Expertenbewertung über sechs Fachbereiche. Wir mappen auch, wie sich Probleme verstärken — ein Render-Blocking Script, das Core Web Vitals beeinträchtigt, unterdrückt auch die Crawl-Effizienz, was die Indexation reduziert. Kostenlose Tools können diese Zusammenhänge nicht erkennen oder Probleme nach tatsächlicher Geschäftsauswirkung bewerten.

Beheben Sie die gefundenen Probleme oder berichten Sie nur darüber?

Das Audit enthält eine Sprint-ready Remediation Roadmap, die Ihr Team direkt ausführen kann. Falls Sie Hilfe bei der Implementierung der Fixes benötigen, bieten wir Remediation Engagements an, die aus den Audit Findings scoped sind. Die meisten Clients sparen 40-60% bei Implementierungskosten, weil die diagnostische Arbeit bereits erledigt ist.

Können Sie eine Site auf WordPress, Shopify oder einem Custom Stack auditen?

Ja. Wir auditen Sites auf jeder Plattform — WordPress, Shopify, Next.js, Custom PHP, Headless CMS Architekturen, Legacy Systeme. Unsere Methodik ist Platform-agnostic. Wir passen unsere Tools und Empfehlungen an Ihren spezifischen Tech Stack an, sodass jeder Fix sofort von Ihrem Development Team umsetzbar ist.

Website Audit from $4,000
Fixed-fee. 30 days of follow-up Q&A included.
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