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Your WordPress Stack is Hemorrhaging Revenue. Here's Your Exit Plan.

If you're a growth lead watching plugin conflicts tank conversions while your dev team firefights security patches, you need numbers -- not another agency deck.

We dig into your entire WordPress stack -- plugin bloat, ranking decay, Core Web Vitals failures, security gaps -- and hand you a migration roadmap to Astro, Next.js, or Nuxt.

47%
Avg Plugin Bloat
Found in WordPress audits
3.2s
Avg LCP Reduction
Post-migration
72hr
Audit Turnaround
Full report delivered
$0
Surprises
Fixed-fee audits
What Is a WordPress Site Audit with Migration Roadmap?

A WordPress site audit with migration roadmap is a technical assessment that catalogs every performance bottleneck, security vulnerability, SEO regression, and plugin dependency in your current WordPress installation. Then we model the total cost of ownership for staying on WordPress versus moving to a modern headless framework like Astro, Next.js, or Nuxt. You get hard numbers to make the decision -- not gut feelings.

Your Current Site May Be a Liability

Common gaps we find in nearly every audit.

Plugin sprawl adding 800ms+ to every page load
Risk: Each additional plugin is an unaudited dependency -- one bad update can take your site offline or open a backdoor.
Core Web Vitals failing on mobile with LCP over 4 seconds
Risk: Google demotes pages that miss CWV thresholds, and competitors who pass them are eating your organic traffic right now.
Ranking decay you can't explain with content changes alone
Risk: Technical SEO debt compounds quietly -- by the time you notice the traffic drop, you've already lost months of indexing authority.
Security vulnerabilities from outdated plugins and PHP versions
Risk: WordPress powers 43% of the web and it's the #1 target for automated attacks. One unpatched plugin is all it takes.
Monthly hosting and maintenance costs that keep creeping upward
Risk: Managed WordPress hosting, premium plugin licenses, and developer hours for updates can easily exceed $2K/month -- with nothing to show for it performance-wise.
No clear data on whether migration is actually worth it
Risk: Without a cost model comparing stay vs. migrate, you're making a six-figure decision on instinct.

What Your Website Could Look Like

Custom-designed for your industry. No templates. No stock photos.

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How We Build This Right

Every safeguard, built in from Day 1.

Plugin Dependency Audit

We inventory every active and inactive plugin, map their dependencies, flag redundancies, and identify which ones are abandoned or vulnerable. You get a kill list with a safe removal order.

Core Web Vitals Deep Dive

Field data from CrUX plus lab data from Lighthouse and WebPageTest across your top 50 URLs. We pinpoint exactly which elements are causing LCP, CLS, and INP failures.

SEO Regression Analysis

We correlate Google Search Console data with technical changes to identify when and why rankings dropped. Crawl budget waste, thin content, and canonical issues all get surfaced.

Security Gap Assessment

PHP version audit, plugin vulnerability cross-reference against WPScan databases, file permission checks, and authentication hardening review. Every finding gets a severity score.

Total Cost of Ownership Model

We calculate your real WordPress TCO -- hosting, plugins, developer hours, downtime costs -- then model the equivalent on Astro, Next.js, or Nuxt with headless CMS. Numbers, not opinions.

Migration Roadmap Document

A phased migration plan covering URL mapping, content model design, redirect strategy, SEO preservation checklist, and timeline estimates. Ready to hand off to any development team.

What We Build

Purpose-built features for your industry.

Full Plugin Inventory & Risk Matrix

Every plugin scored by performance impact, security risk, and replacement availability in a headless stack.

Page-Level Performance Heatmap

Your top 50 pages ranked by CWV performance with specific bottlenecks called out per template.

Crawl Budget Waste Report

A clear picture of how much Googlebot time is wasted on parameter URLs, thin pages, and redirect chains.

Framework Recommendation with Justification

Astro, Next.js, or Nuxt -- we recommend the right framework based on your content model, team skills, and traffic patterns.

CMS Selection Guide

Sanity, Contentful, Strapi, or WordPress as headless -- we weigh each one against your editorial workflow.

ROI Projection Spreadsheet

An editable model showing break-even timeline, projected performance gains, and hosting savings post-migration.

Built on a Modern, Secure Stack

AstroNext.jsNuxtLighthouseScreaming FrogGoogle Search ConsoleWebPageTest

Our Development Process

From discovery to launch. Quality at every step.

01

Discovery & Access

Day 1

We collect credentials for hosting, Google Search Console, Analytics, and your WordPress admin. A 30-minute kickoff call gets us aligned on your biggest concerns and business goals.

02

Technical Crawl & Data Collection

Days 2-4

Automated and manual crawls of your entire WordPress installation. We pull CrUX data, run Lighthouse across templates, inventory plugins, and scan for vulnerabilities.

03

Analysis & Cost Modeling

Days 5-7

We correlate performance data with SEO metrics, build the TCO model for WordPress vs. headless, and draft the migration roadmap with phased milestones.

04

Report Delivery & Walkthrough

Days 8-9

You get a detailed audit document, the TCO spreadsheet, and the migration roadmap. We walk through everything on a 60-minute video call and answer every question.

05

Decision Support

Day 10+

If you decide to migrate, we scope the project with fixed-fee pricing. If you stay on WordPress, the audit and remediation checklist are yours -- no strings attached.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Most audits are delivered within 10 business days. Sites with over 10,000 pages or complex multisite configurations may take up to 15. We'll confirm the timeline on our kickoff call once we know your setup and have access sorted.
No. The audit and roadmap are yours regardless of what you decide. Plenty of clients use the findings to fix immediate WordPress issues while planning a longer-term migration. Others hand the roadmap to their internal team or a different agency. There's no lock-in.
It depends on your content model, team capabilities, and traffic patterns. Astro's the right call for content-heavy sites with minimal interactivity. Next.js handles complex applications with dynamic data. Nuxt is the stronger choice if your team already works in Vue. We recommend based on your situation, not our preference.
No. Our crawls are throttled so they don't put pressure on your server, and we pull field performance data from Google's CrUX dataset rather than running synthetic load tests against your production environment. We coordinate timing for any server-side checks that need admin access.
We add up your hosting fees, premium plugin licenses, developer maintenance hours, estimated downtime costs, and the opportunity cost from organic traffic lost to poor Core Web Vitals. Then we model equivalent costs on a headless stack over 12, 24, and 36 months in an editable spreadsheet.
Yes. Multisite and WooCommerce audits are common. WooCommerce adds real complexity around product data migration, payment gateway compatibility, and checkout performance — we address all of that specifically in the roadmap. These audits typically land at the higher end of our pricing range.
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