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A free website audit for
Oakville small businesses.

Not sure why your website isn’t bringing in calls? Send it over. We’ll go through it the way a customer and Google both see it: speed, mobile, SEO, your Google Business Profile and whether your forms actually work. Then we send back a plain-English list of what to fix first.

Done by the same people who’ve been building and fixing small business websites since 1999. No pitch, no obligation, and you keep the list either way.

A short list you can
actually do something with

Most “free audits” are a 40-page automated report with a sales call stapled to the end. Ours is a person looking at your site and telling you what matters.

Plain English

No jargon dump. Each issue comes with what it is, why it costs you customers, and how hard it is to fix.

Priority order

The 3 to 5 things that will make the biggest difference, ranked, so you know where to start.

Honest call

We’ll tell you if a few fixes will do it, or if the site really needs a rebuild. Most of the time it’s the first one.

What the website
audit covers

We look at the things that actually decide whether someone in Oakville finds you, trusts you and gets in touch. Not just a speed score.

Google Business Profile

Categories, hours, photos, reviews and whether your profile matches your website. For most local businesses this is where the calls come from, so we look at it closely.

Mobile layout

Menus that don’t open, buttons too small to tap, text you have to pinch to read, a phone number you can’t click. We test on real phones, not just a resized browser.

Forms, calls & tracking

We send a test through your contact form to see if it actually arrives. We also check that click-to-call works and that Google Analytics and Search Console are set up, so you can see what’s working.

Security & updates

SSL, out-of-date WordPress core and plugins, abandoned plugins, login protection and backups. Old plugins are the number one way small business sites get hacked.

Content & trust

Does the homepage say what you do and where in a few seconds? Are there reviews, real photos, prices or price ranges, and a clear next step? This is usually where the quick wins are.

Indexing & technical SEO

Whether Google can find and index all your pages: sitemap, robots.txt, broken links, duplicate pages, redirects and schema markup. The stuff nobody sees until it’s a problem.

How the free audit works

It takes you about two minutes. We do the rest.

1. Send us your website

Email or call with your web address, your business name and anything that’s been bugging you about the site. If there’s a competitor who always seems to show up ahead of you, tell us that too.

2. We go through it properly

A real person checks the site on desktop and phone, runs the speed and SEO tools, looks at your Google Business Profile and sees how you show up for the searches that matter in your area.

3. You get the list

We send back the findings in plain English, in priority order. If it’s easier, we’ll walk you through it on a quick call or Zoom.

4. You decide what’s next

Fix it yourself, have your current developer do it, or have us handle it with a fixed quote. No pressure either way. Plenty of people just take the list and run with it, and that’s fine.

Signs your site needs
more than a few fixes

Most sites we audit just need some focused work. A rebuild usually only makes sense when a few of these are true at once:

If it does need a rebuild, see Oakville web design for what that looks like and what it costs. If it just needs looking after, see website maintenance & hosting.

Website audits for Oakville
and the rest of Halton

We’re based in Georgetown and most of our audits are for small businesses in Oakville: shops in Kerr Village and Bronte, trades in Glen Abbey and North Oakville, clinics and offices around the Uptown Core. We do the same audit for businesses in Burlington, Milton, Mississauga, Georgetown and beyond. It’s all done remotely, so where you are doesn’t really matter.

Oakville web design

Custom and template WordPress builds for Oakville small businesses, with fixed quotes from $999.

Web design Oakville →

Oakville SEO

If the audit shows you’re invisible on Google, this is the ongoing work that fixes it.

SEO services Oakville →

Google Business Profile

Posts, photos, reviews and categories so you show up in the map pack, not just the blue links.

GBP management →

FAQ: free website audit

Is the website audit really free?

Yes. There’s no charge and no obligation. It’s the same review we do at the start of every project, so it helps us too: if you do decide to work with us later, we already know your site.

What do I need to send you?

Just your web address and business name. It helps if you tell us what’s bugging you about the site and which towns or services matter most. We don’t need passwords for the audit.

How long does it take?

A couple of minutes on your end. We’ll let you know when to expect the results when you get in touch, and it’s usually within a few business days.

Is this an SEO audit or a website audit?

Both. We cover on-page and local SEO, but also speed, mobile layout, security, forms and your Google Business Profile. A site can rank fine and still lose customers because the contact form is broken.

Will you just try to sell me a new website?

No. Most sites we look at need fixes, not a rebuild, and we’ll say so. You’re welcome to take the list to your current developer or do it yourself.

My site isn’t on WordPress. Can you still audit it?

Yes. We audit WordPress, Wix, Squarespace, Shopify and custom-built sites. The findings are the same kind of thing, though how easy each fix is depends on the platform, and we’ll tell you that too.

Do you only do audits for Oakville businesses?

No. Oakville is where most of ours come from, but we audit sites for businesses across Halton, Peel and Dufferin, including Burlington, Milton, Mississauga, Georgetown, Caledon and Orangeville.

Find out what’s holding
your website back.

Send us your website and we’ll send back a short, plain-English audit:

Email us for a free audit Call 416-892-7774 Text us

416-892-7774 · info@fatdogmedia.ca