An independent audit of your website. Not a pitch to take it over.
Your webmaster or dev team isn't going anywhere. This is a scoped, outside review — the same kind of independent check any mature engineering org or public agency runs periodically — that hands your team a clear, prioritized list of what to fix. Built for corporations and municipal & government sites alike, where accessibility compliance often carries real legal weight.
We don't just claim rigor — read what an actual audit found.
We don't ask for production access, and we don't pitch a rebuild
The audit is read-only. We review what's publicly visible and, if granted, limited staging or analytics access — never production credentials. The deliverable is a report your existing team acts on, not a sales pitch to replace them.
The same categories we catch real bugs in, every day
Every category below reflects something we've actually found and fixed in production — not a generic checklist copied from somewhere else.
SEO & Structured Data
Title tags, meta descriptions, Schema.org markup, sitemap and robots.txt health, duplicate or thin content.
Accessibility
Color contrast, keyboard navigation, focus states, semantic HTML, and a WCAG AA baseline check.
Real find: invisible footer text from a global color ruleMobile & Responsive
Real device testing — not just a resized browser window — across breakpoints, touch targets, and layout overflow.
Real find: a page silently scrolling sideways on mobilePerformance
Page weight, render-blocking resources, image optimization, and what's actually slowing first paint.
Security & Reliability
SSL/certificate configuration, mixed content, broken links, and stale canonical URLs pointing nowhere.
Real find: a canonical tag pointing at an unregistered domainContent & UX
Stale content, dead calls-to-action, broken forms, outdated copyright years, and other small signs of neglect.
Four steps, no surprises
Scope & access
We agree on what's in scope and request only read-only or staging access — never production credentials.
Manual + automated review
Real browsers, real devices, and direct inspection — not just an automated scanner report.
Written, prioritized report
Findings ranked by severity, with evidence and concrete fix recommendations your team can act on directly.
Optional walkthrough
A call to review findings with your team, if useful — entirely optional.
A report, not a pitch
Every finding is logged with a severity level, so your team can triage instead of reading a wall of undifferentiated notes.
Eight real previews, not just a mockup
The findings table above is illustrative. These eight are real — and every finding in them was independently verified by us directly, not inferred from third-party data. Built unprompted for actual San Jose organizations, using only public information, with no production access requested.
Berliner Cohen LLP
A 50+ year San Jose law firm has a page where raw, unescaped HTML code leaks into a meta tag instead of a description — and the broken code itself misspells the firm's own name.
San José Spotlight
San Jose's independent nonprofit newsroom has every email on its Contact page rendering as "[email protected]" without JavaScript, and a donor link pointing to a staging server instead of the real page.
Satellite Healthcare
A 1,000+ employee nonprofit kidney care provider's "Find a Center" tool — its single most important page — shows literal unrendered template code instead of real text.
City of San José
The City's official site has a real ADA Coordinator and accessibility program — but six core informational pages return nothing but a "please enable JavaScript" message to search crawlers.
Meriwest Credit Union
A homepage section built to show off real charitable giving displays "$0" for both stat headlines instead of the real figures — an unfortunate irony for a generosity-focused section.
Del Grande Dealer Group
The Bay Area's largest family-owned auto group has a page whose metadata lists the wrong contact email entirely — not DGDG's, but their website vendor's internal support inbox.
Bristlecone
A 1,800+ consultant San Jose firm has a live legal page whose canonical tag points to a staging server instead of the real site — confirmed against another page that correctly self-references.
Cupertino Electric
A 70-year, 5,300+ employee national contractor with $500M+ in revenue has no meta description anywhere on its site — checked directly across three different page types.
Curious what an audit actually finds? Read what we found auditing all eight of these organizations →
We complete the full audit first. If we don't find anything worth fixing, you don't pay.
The same risk-reversal we apply to every build, adapted honestly for this service: a completed report comes before any invoice, and if it turns up nothing actionable, there's no charge.
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