Free website audit · Oakville & Halton
A free website audit, written by a person
Send us your URL. We'll look at your site ourselves and email you what's working, what isn't and what it would take to fix, within one business day. No charge, no pitch, no follow-up sequence.
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Why most free audits are worthless
Every agency offers one, and almost all of them are the same thing: a scanner runs against your URL, produces forty pages of colour-coded warnings, and lands in your inbox with a call booking link attached.
The report is free because it cost nothing to produce. It flags things that do not matter, misses the things that do, and its actual function is to alarm you into a sales call. You can generate the identical report yourself in thirty seconds with any of a dozen free tools.
What is genuinely useful is somebody who builds these things looking at yours and telling you the two or three problems that are costing you customers. That takes twenty minutes of a person's time, which is why nobody automates it and why the automated version is worth what you paid.
What we look at
In rough order of how often it turns out to be the actual problem.
Whether the structure can rank at all
The commonest fault by a distance. Everything sits on one page, so somebody searching for one specific service has nothing specific to land on and Google has nothing specific to rank. No amount of redesigning fixes that.
How it behaves on a phone
Not whether it loads, whether it was designed for one. Across the client sites we manage, mobile is between a third and a half of all search impressions.
Page speed, honestly
Not a Lighthouse score you can do nothing with. The two or three things actually slowing it down, usually uncompressed images somebody uploaded straight from a camera.
Your Google Business Profile
The map pack sits above every organic result on local searches. A surprising number of businesses have never claimed the listing, and it is free.
What your competitors are doing
Who is above you, how many pages they have, and what they are ranking for that you are not.
Anything quietly broken
Contact forms that stopped delivering, expired certificates, pages returning errors. These fail silently and cost enquiries for months before anyone notices. If you have 20 or more employees in Ontario, see what AODA requires of your website.
The same audit, on our own site
Rather than describe the process, here is what it found when we ran it against oakvillewebdesigns.com in August 2026.
It also found a client draft page left indexed with the wrong business schema, three page titles leading with the brand name instead of anything anyone searches for, and a homepage advertising delivery times that were two years out of date. All of it fixed. This is the kind of thing an automated scan does not surface and a person does.
What you get back
An email. Not a PDF, not a dashboard login, not a slide deck.
It covers what is working and worth keeping, the two or three things costing you the most, roughly what fixing each would involve, and which of them you could reasonably do yourself.
That last part is the bit other agencies leave out. Some of what we find is genuinely a do-it-yourself job. Claiming a Google Business Profile, asking clients for reviews, compressing images. If that is your situation we will say so, because telling you otherwise would be selling you something you do not need.
There is no follow-up sequence. If you want to talk afterwards, the number is on this page.
Common questions
Is the audit actually free?
Yes, and there is nothing attached to it. No pitch deck, no follow-up sequence, no call you have to take to receive it. You get an email back with what we found.
Is this an automated report?
No. Automated scanners produce a hundred red warnings, most of which do not matter, and that is why they are free everywhere. We look at the site ourselves and tell you which two or three things are actually costing you customers.
How long does it take?
One business day, usually less. If it is going to take longer because the site is large, we will tell you when we acknowledge the email.
What will you actually look at?
Whether the structure lets you rank, how it behaves on a phone, page speed, whether your Google Business Profile is set up, what your competitors are doing differently, and whether anything is broken that you have not noticed.
What if my site turns out to be fine?
Then we will say so. It happens, and the honest answer is sometimes that you need reviews and a Google Business Profile rather than a new website. That advice is worth more to you than a project you did not need.
Do I have to buy anything afterwards?
No. Plenty of people take the audit, fix things themselves, and we never hear from them again. That is a perfectly good outcome.
Will you audit a site you did not build?
Almost always yes. Most audits are for sites built by someone else.
Send us your URL
One field is all that really matters. We will look at it properly and email you back within one business day.