What is a code audit and why do you need it
A source code audit is a review of a site’s source code by developers and other IT professionals. Monitoring allows you to find vulnerabilities, potential errors, and risks in the site, as well as improve the code. Let’s look at why you should order a code audit:
- Find deprecated features. Outdated technologies and features may not work properly or slow down the site. Thanks to the audit, you can determine which codebase parts need to be optimized or improved.
- Determine security risks. Outdated code does not provide reliable site protection. The web page becomes vulnerable to hacker attacks, hacks, viruses, and malware. This is fraught with the loss of important information, the site’s «death». A professional code audit allows you to find security weaknesses and fix them to prevent serious consequences.
- Detection of the wrong approach to development. The wrong approach to development includes writing «dirty» code and violating programming technology. Because of this, the functions may not work correctly or not work at all, the site loading speed may decrease, and errors may occur. If you notice problems with your site, it’s worth getting a professional code audit from experienced developers.
These are the main reasons why codebase monitoring is essential for any online business. Next, we will talk about how we implement a comprehensive audit and what you get.
About our approach to testing the WordPress site code
We take a comprehensive approach to providing this service, so we offer several options for checking the code viability. The main codebase monitoring stages in our WordPress development agency:
- Checking the code manually. Experienced programmers evaluate how your site’s code is written, and its compliance with generally accepted standards. At this stage, the code cleanliness, and the presence of extra characters and lines are checked. If they are, we offer code optimization solutions. Optimization will help speed up the page’s loading, which will beneficially affect the user experience. Manual verification is relevant for both MVP and mature projects.
- External code audit. It helps to estimate how user-friendly the site is. Our developers check the performance and evaluate the response. During your site code audit, they check the loading speed, because modern users do not tend to wait long for the page to load. Responsiveness testing is an assessment of how a web page is adapted to different devices, and whether SEO is implemented correctly. SEO plays an important role in search engine rankings. Thus, after this stage, it is possible to identify problems with site performance, adaptability, and tuning for search engines.
- Internal code audit. Our WordPress development company audits the code structure and checks how outdated some of the tools are. The check allows you to identify weaknesses in the backend and predict possible problems with the site. For example, if plugins and technologies have not been updated for a long time, this leads to site function failure. A common situation in online stores: the user cannot purchase because the payment plugin is outdated. Because of this, customers leave the site and go to competitors. We recommend ordering a comprehensive site audit to avoid such a situation.
- Server infrastructure audit. An infrastructure audit is also an opportunity to check whether systems are working effectively. Infrastructure audit improves site speed. This ensures that these servers are delivered as quickly as possible. Infrastructure code audit helps optimize servers and secure space in the cloud. It checks if the product is using more cloud space or servers than it needs. This code audit will then find ways to reduce some of those costs.
Note that the integrated approach ensures that the code is “tested” in several ways. After the audit, it is easy to evaluate the site’s performance, security, and speed.
What will you get
After a codebase audit conducted by our company, you will receive:
- Understanding whether it is possible to scale your site, and expand its functionality and capabilities. It is advisable to introduce new features and add fresh pages to a site with clean code. After the WordPress site’s code audit, you can evaluate the web page state, improve it and see if it is realistic to expand it.
- Security level assessment. A weak code base can lead to important data leakage, site hacking, and virus damage to the system. After the audit, you will be able to assess the web page security level and improve it.
- Professional advice. Our developers will point out the problem code areas and advise what needs to be fixed. In addition to the audit, you can order a codebase improvement from us.
What are the advantages of cooperation with us?
The website codebase audit cost in our company depends on the site’s size and the time it takes to implement monitoring. For example, a simple landing page audit will be cheaper than a multi-page online store analysis. The main advantages of cooperation with us:
- experienced developers;
- adherence to the WordPress Codex and programming standards;
- complex approach to WordPress website code audit.
If you don’t know how expensive the audit will be, get a cost calculated according to your project. Entrust your site audit to professionals who know the problem areas in the code and can quickly identify vulnerabilities. If you want to get the cost of an audit according to your project or order professional monitoring, write to us. Remember that timely detected errors today guarantee a working and safe site tomorrow!
