The Site Audit is a structured and comprehensive assessment of your current website. It covers the following:
- Assessing theme and plugins to identify bloatware and plugins that create performance or security problems
- Checking
autoloadsettings for excessive autoload size - Checking DNS redirects to identify excessive redirects
- Checking security headers to identify vulnerabilities
- Checking database configuration for incorrectly configured indexes
- Checking database server configuration for performance bottlenecks
- Checking website configuration
- Checking web server configuration
- Checking SSL configuration for vulnerabilties and out-of-date protocols (ie. TLS 1.0, TLS 1.1 and TLS 1.2
- Checking file permissions and ownership
- Checking contents of .
htaccessfile - Checking contents of
wpconfig.phpfile
Pricing
| Service | Duration (hr) | Price (R) | Price ($) | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Site Audit (Standard) | 3 | R4,500 | $225 | The Site Audit (Standard) is a light assessment of your site: hosting plan, themes, database, plugins, backups, security headers, DNS and 3rd party services. The output of this assessment is a prioritised Improvement Plan which will consist of 10-20 actionable items. |
| The Site Audit (Complex) | 12 | R18,000 | $900 | The Site Audit (Complex) is a comprehensive assessment of a large, complex ecommerce website: hosting, themes, database, plugins, security headers, firewall rules, DNS and 3rd party services. The output of this assessment is a detailed Improvement Plan. |
| The Site Audit (Enterprise - quoted on consultation) | The Site Audit (Enterprise) is a comprehensive assessment of a corporate ecommerce deployment using multiple sites: hosting, themes, database, plugins, security headers, firewall rules, DNS and 3rd party services. The output of this assessment is a detailed Improvement Plan and Architectural overview. Because of the unknown complexity involved, this will be quoted and billed on an hourly basis, alternatively on a fixed cost after consultation. |
Report and Recommendations
After we have conducted The Site Audit, you will receive a prioritised Improvement Plan which contains a number of actionable items. I may be able to assist with a handful of system engineering tasks (and will quote on these), however many of the items may be done by your current design/development team. The report may include items such as:
- Reduce WordPress
autoloadsize (1-2 hours) - Create database indexes (1-2 hours)
- Configuring and testing off-site backups (1-2 hours)
- Implementing a Content Delivery Network (CND) such as bunny.net or CloudFlare
- Installing and configuring
redison your server - Install and configure the
fail2bandaemon on your server - Optimising redirects in DNS and
.htaccesson your server and website