Think You Need a Complete Redesign? Start With a Website Audit Instead
Is your website doing its job, or is it actually making things harder for your users and your team?
Our website audit looks at the bigger picture, from UX and content to performance, search, conversions, and technical health. Then we show you what’s working, what’s getting in the way, and what makes sense to improve first.
Get your comprehensive website audit starting at $1,950.
Your Website Doesn't Have to Be Broken to Be Holding You Back
Most websites don’t suddenly stop working. Instead, little problems build up over time…
- People have trouble finding important information
- Your messaging no longer reflects what you actually do
- Pages are slow or awkward on mobile
- You're getting traffic, but not enough inquiries or conversions
- Your team avoids updating the website because it's difficult to manage
- You keep adding fixes without knowing whether you really need a redesign
Individually, these things can seem small. But together, they can make your website much less useful than it should be.
A useful website audit helps you figure out what’s actually happening before you decide what to spend time and money fixing.
WHO IT'S FOR
Your Team Could Benefit From a Website Audit
Our website audit services are a good place to start if:
Your website feels outdated, but you’re not sure whether you need a full redesign
You’re getting traffic but not enough leads, applications, or other conversions
Users or staff regularly have trouble finding the information they need
Your website has grown over time, but there hasn’t been a real plan
You’re seeing performance, usability, or technical issues
Your messaging doesn’t align with your organization anymore
You’re planning next year’s website budget and want to know where to invest
A lot of agencies are quick to recommend a brand-new website. But at Cheeky Monkey Media, we don’t think a redesign should be the default.
We start with a different question: Can we make the website you already have work better first?
INSIDE OUR AUDIT
Here's What We Look At
User Experience & Navigation
Content & Messaging
Conversion & Calls to Action
Search & Discoverability
Performance & Technical Health
Mobile & Website Usability
We also flag obvious accessibility, security, and website health concerns when we come across them.
What You'll Walk Away With
Your website audit report will give you:
- A clear picture of how your website is performing today
- What's already working well
- UX and usability issues that may be frustrating users
- Content and messaging gaps
- Conversion opportunities
- Search and discoverability issues
- Performance and technical concerns
- Sitewide problems that may be affecting multiple pages
- Clear recommendations for what to improve
- A prioritized Fix Now, Fix Next, and Plan for Later action plan
We don’t want to give you a giant website audit checklist you don’t really know what to do with. Our goal is to help your team understand what matters and what to do about it in an organized manner.
Get a comprehensive website audit starting at $1,950.
TOOLS VS. A REAL AUDIT
A Website Audit Tool Can Find Problems. But It Doesn’t Keep Going…
Website audit tools can be incredibly useful for spotting broken links, performance issues, SEO errors, and other technical problems. But that’s only one part of the website.
If you’re on the fence, let’s look at the differences that’ll matter:
| Website Audit Tool | Cheeky Monkey Website Audit |
|---|---|
| Finds technical errors | Looks at technical issues and the user experience around them |
| Generates scores and warnings | Explains what actually deserves attention |
| Reviews pages individually | Looks at user journeys and sitewide patterns |
| Focuses mainly on what can be measured automatically | Reviews UX, messaging, content, conversion, search, and performance |
| Gives you a list | Gives you priorities and recommendations |
| Tells you what may be wrong | Helps you decide what to do next |
You don’t need another score. You deserve to know what the score actually means for your website and what to do about it.
THE BIG QUESTION
Do You Need a New Website, or Just a Better One?
This is often the reason teams come to us in the first place.
Something isn’t working, and a redesign starts to feel like the obvious answer. Sometimes it is. But sometimes the better investment is for you to make fixes to the website you already have.
Based on what we find, we’ll help you understand which path makes the most sense:
Improve What You Have
Your website has a solid foundation. A focused set of UX, content, conversion, search, or development improvements may be enough.
Make Bigger Improvements
The website can stay, but some areas may need more substantial changes to structure, content, functionality, or design.
Start Planning a Redesign
The problems go deeper. Your platform, structure, user experience, or technical limitations may be making ongoing fixes inefficient.
Our promise: We’ll never recommend a new website just because we build websites. We want real information in the audit to help you make the right decision for your team.
WE PRIORITIZE
Not Everything on Your Website Needs Fixing at Once
Most website audits uncover plenty of opportunities. But just because there’s a long list, it doesn’t mean they all deserve the same attention.
In our audit, we make sure to prioritize recommendations based on things like:
User Impact
Is the issue making the website confusing, difficult, or frustrating to use?
Business Impact
Could it be affecting leads, applications, donations, registrations, sales, or another important goal?
How Widespread It Is
Is this one problematic page—or a template issue affecting half the website?
Effort vs. Opportunity
Could a relatively small change create a meaningful improvement?
The result is a practical plan. We want to help your team focus without feeling overwhelmed by an endless list of tasks or unclear priorities.
HOW IT WORKS
What Does Auditing a Website Actually Look Like?
No mystery score, and no giant spreadsheet without context. Just a much clearer idea of what your website needs next.
WHY US
We Know Websites From More Than One Angle
A website issue isn’t always a design problem.
Sometimes it’s content or UX. Sometimes it’s development. And sometimes your marketing is sending people to a page that isn’t doing its job well.
Our team works across design, development, search, content, UX, and ongoing website support. That means we can look at the website as a whole rather than auditing a single small part.
OF INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE
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Frequently Asked Questions
What is a website audit?
A strong website audit helps find problems, opportunities, and areas where your website could perform better.
We look at more than just a single metric or automated score. Our team reviews UX, usability, content, conversion, search, performance, and technical website health. Then, we turn the findings into clear priorities for your team.
How do you audit a website?
Every team audits differently. At Cheeky Monkey Media, we start by learning about your organization’s goals, audiences, important pages, and key user journeys.
Then we review a representative sample of the site using website audit tools and hands-on analysis. We look for patterns, explain the issues that matter most, and turn everything into a practical website audit report.
Do you audit every page on the website?
Not usually. Instead, we review a representative sample of important pages, templates, and user journeys unless we agree on a larger scope.
This helps us spot both page-specific issues and patterns that appear across the website.
Is this a website UX audit?
User Experience (UX) plays a big role in the audit, but we look at more than user experience alone.
We review website UX and usability alongside content, conversions, search, performance, mobile experience, and technical health.
If you only need in-depth UX research or usability testing, we can scope that separately.
Does the audit include a website content audit?
Yes. We review content and messaging across representative pages and look for unclear positioning, outdated information, content gaps, repetitive pages, weak calls to action, and opportunities to answer user questions more clearly.
We don’t review every line of content unless we include that level of detail in the project scope.
Is this a website technical audit?
We include technical website health as one part of the audit. We look for important issues related to performance, indexing, functionality, your CMS, and overall technical health.
This service doesn’t replace a specialized code review, penetration test, or infrastructure assessment.
Do you look at website performance?
Yes. We review load speed, mobile performance, page experience, and other technical factors that could make your website slower or harder to use.
Is this a website security audit?
We’ll flag obvious security, update, CMS, or website health concerns we find during the audit.
But this isn’t a specialized cybersecurity assessment or penetration test. If we find signs that you need a deeper website security audit, we’ll recommend the right next step.
Is SEO included?
Yes, at a website level. We review major search and discoverability issues, including indexing, page structure, content, internal visibility, and broader search concerns.
If you need deeper keyword research, a full SEO strategy, or a dedicated AI Search Visibility Audit, we can talk about customizing packages for your needs
Is accessibility included?
We’ll flag obvious accessibility issues we notice during the audit. If you need manual accessibility testing against WCAG and a detailed remediation plan, we recommend our dedicated Website Accessibility Audit.
Can you make the improvements?
Absolutely. Our team can help with UX, content, design, development, SEO, accessibility, analytics, and ongoing website support.
Or you can take the recommendations to your internal team or current website partner.
Find Out What Your Website Actually Needs
You don’t need to redesign your website just because something feels off.
Start by finding out what’s working, what’s getting in the way, and which improvements are actually worth making.
Start working with us for as little as $1,950. You’ll get a practical website audit report with clear recommendations and a prioritized plan for what to do next.