Web Audit Services
Independent web audits for accessibility, SEO, performance, security and UX — on Drupal or any platform. Get a prioritised, actionable fix plan with estimated effort.
Request a full web audit, or book a consultancy call to scope the right review for your platform.
What is a web audit?
A web audit is a structured, independent assessment of your website measured against accessibility, SEO, performance, security, UX and code-quality standards. It examines how your site actually performs against the requirements that matter to your organisation.
The audit produces a prioritised report of every issue found, ranked by severity and business impact, with estimated effort for each fix. You finish with a ranked list to work through in order, not a flat catalogue of problems.
A Metadrop audit combines automated tooling with expert manual review, so you get diagnosis you can act on rather than a raw tool dump. A one-click scanner sees a fraction of what a specialist does.
Drupal & any platform
We bring 15+ years of Drupal expertise as a Drupal Silver Certified Partner, and we audit any stack with the same rigour.
Our audits are independent and vendor-neutral: we assess platforms we did not build, so the findings stay objective and serve your interests.
We audit public sites, intranets, multilingual and multi-site platforms, supporting 30+ languages across 50+ countries.
Our work is trusted by Saint-Gobain, Save the Children, Telefónica, UNICEF and Solvay.
What you receive
A clear, actionable report
Findings, recommendations and estimated effort, tailored to your goals.
Prioritised by severity
Issues ranked by severity and business impact, so you fix what matters first and spend budget where it counts.
A board-ready summary
A summary in non-technical language alongside the technical detail, so stakeholders and engineers each get what they need.
Focused or full scope
Choose a single focused consultancy or a full audit, or both, depending on how broad a view you need.
A conformance basis
Where relevant, accessibility deliverables include a conformance basis against WCAG 2.2, EN 301 549 and the EAA.
Why audit now
Avoid legal exposure. The European Accessibility Act (EAA) and EN 301 549 now apply to many private and public-sector sites, and non-compliance carries real sanction risk.
Close security gaps. Outdated modules, missing updates and weak permissions create GDPR and NIS2 exposure long before they become incidents.
Recover lost reach. Technical SEO faults, slow Core Web Vitals and poor accessibility quietly cost you audience, ranking and conversions.
Protect brand reputation. An inaccessible or unstable platform damages trust with users, partners and regulators.
Plan upgrades with evidence. An audit is the diagnosis before a migration, upgrade or redesign, so you scope the work accurately.
Talk to an audit expert and we will help you scope the right review for your platform and goals.
Discovery & scope
We agree your goals, platforms, priority areas and the pages or flows in scope.
Automated analysis
We run industry tooling across accessibility, performance, SEO, security and code quality.
Expert manual review
Our specialists validate findings and catch what tools miss, including keyboard, screen-reader and architecture checks.
Prioritisation
Every issue is ranked by severity and business impact, with estimated effort to fix.
Report & walkthrough
You receive the prioritised report plus a session to walk through it with stakeholders.
Remediation roadmap
A clear next-step plan, with the option to have Metadrop deliver the fixes.
What we audit
Choose a single focused audit or a full multi-area review. Each one ends in prioritised, actionable findings.
Accessibility audit
We check compliance with WCAG 2.2 AA/AAA, EN 301 549 and the European Accessibility Act, combining automated tooling (Pa11y, axe, IBM Equal Access, WAVE) with manual screen-reader and keyboard testing. You receive an accessibility score, a non-conformance report and a prioritised remediation plan.
Technical SEO audit
We run structured-data (schema.org) validation, title, meta and canonical review, plus XML sitemap and robots.txt checks to recover crawlability and ranking. You get a technical-SEO and structured-data report.
GEO / AI visibility audit
This audit measures how visible and citable your content is to AI answer engines and generative search.
Front-end performance audit
We measure Core Web Vitals (FCP, LCP, CLS) with Lighthouse and PageSpeed Insights, audit third-party scripts and review HTML, CSS and JS quality. The deliverable is a front-end performance report with caching and script-optimisation recommendations.
Back-end performance audit
We tune Drupal page and block caching, sessions and configuration, with deep profiling using XHProf, Blackfire or NewRelic, and equivalent server-side profiling for non-Drupal stacks. We hand you a back-end performance report.
Security audit
We assess core and contributed-module update gaps, user roles and permissions, security headers and SSL/TLS configuration, all relevant to your GDPR and NIS2 obligations. You get a security assessment report.
Code quality audit
We validate against Drupal coding standards (PHP CodeSniffer / PHPQA) and review module configuration to flag redundant or unused modules. The deliverable is a coding-standards report and a cleanup list.
UX/UI audit
We run responsive and mobile-first validation (BrowserStack, Chrome DevTools) and review consistency and usability across devices. You get a responsive and mobile report with UX recommendations.
Web sustainability audit
We measure carbon per visit (Website Carbon, EcoGrader), assess green hosting (The Green Web Foundation) and calculate an EcoIndex score. The deliverable is a sustainability report with green-practice recommendations.
Frequently asked questions
What is included in a web audit?
A full audit covers accessibility, technical SEO, front-end and back-end performance, security, code quality, UX/UI and web sustainability, delivered as one prioritised report. You can also commission a single focused audit.
How long does a web audit take?
A focused single-area audit typically takes a few days. A full multi-area audit of a large platform takes one to two weeks, depending on scope and site size. We confirm timing during the discovery step.
Isn't a free online scanner enough?
Automated scanners catch only a fraction of real issues, especially in accessibility and UX. Our audits pair automated tooling with expert manual testing (keyboard, screen-reader, architecture review) and give you prioritised, actionable findings.
Do you only audit Drupal sites?
Drupal is our deepest expertise, and we also audit WordPress, headless and any other platform, including intranets and multilingual, multi-site environments.
What's the difference between an SEO audit and an accessibility audit?
An SEO audit checks how well search engines can crawl, understand and rank your site. An accessibility audit checks compliance with WCAG and the EAA so all users can use it. They overlap, since clean markup helps both, but they answer different questions, and a full audit covers both.
What do I receive at the end?
A prioritised report ranked by severity and business impact, a non-technical summary for stakeholders, estimated effort per fix, and a remediation roadmap. We can also deliver the fixes if you want a single partner end to end.