A Magento audit: know what you have.
Before you change agency, plan an upgrade or buy a shop. Look first, then decide.
Short answer
A Magento audit is a review of an existing shop: the version and missing patches, changes to the core, the quality of modules and custom work, speed, the set-up of the server and security. Jevana delivers a report in plain language, with the risk of each finding and the order in which to tackle it. The audit is separate from who does the work afterwards.
What we go through
Version and patches
- Which release, and until when it gets patches
- Which security patches are missing
- PHP, database and search engine on a maintained version
Code
- Changes to the Magento core
- Third-party modules, where they come from and whether they are still maintained
- Custom work judged against Magento's rules
- Whether there is a repository, and whether production matches it
Speed
- Whether the page cache works, and for which pages it does not
- Cron and indexers
- Load time per page type, server and browser separately
Server and security
- Who can get in, and how
- Backups, and whether one was ever restored
- Traces of an earlier break-in
When an audit makes sense
- You are considering another agency and want to know what you are handing over
- The agency says an upgrade is a new project, and you want a second opinion
- You are taking over a company that comes with a Magento shop
- The shop gets slower every year and nobody can explain why
A report you can pass on
The report is written for the owner of the shop, not for the developer. Each finding says what is wrong, what it can cost if left alone and what it takes to fix.
You can take it to your current agency, to another one or to us. We give no quote in the audit. If you then ask for a proposal, that is a separate step.
Questions
What does a Magento audit deliver?
An audit delivers a report on the state of the shop: what is good, what is a risk and in which order to tackle it. Afterwards you know whether the shop is safe, whether an upgrade is feasible without a rebuild and what maintenance realistically needs. The audit itself changes nothing in the shop; we only need read access.
Can I use the audit to change agency?
Yes, that is often what it is used for. A new agency can use the report to judge what it is taking over, without spending weeks in the code itself. It also avoids the argument afterwards about what was already wrong. We write the report so that another agency can work with it as well as we can.
Do you need access to the live shop?
We need read access to the code, the server and the back office. We do not write anything. If no access to production can be given, we work with a copy of the code and an anonymised database. To measure speed and the page cache, the live shop itself is enough; it is public.
What is the difference between an audit and a code audit?
A code audit looks only at the software: modules, custom work and changes to the core. A full audit also covers the server, speed, backups and security. If your doubts are mainly about a developer's work, a code audit is enough. If you want to know whether the shop as a whole is healthy, choose the full one.
Goes well with
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Magento maintenance and support
Patches, updates, monitoring and a contact for outages, for a fixed monthly amount.
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Magento development
A Magento developer for one-off jobs or ongoing work, in your own repository and with a staging environment.
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Magento security
Cleaning up a hacked shop, and setting up a healthy one so a flaw does not become a data breach.
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Advice
Someone to think through your IT with you, from where you stand today to a switch or growth.
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Technical SEO for Magento
Duplicate pages, filters, redirects and speed: the technology that decides whether Google understands your catalogue.
From the knowledge base
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How long will Magento 2 still be supported?
Which versions of Magento 2 still get patches, when that stops and how to tell whether your shop is falling behind.
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Why is my Magento store slow?
The causes we find most often when a Magento shop is slow, from page cache to product photos, and why you measure first.
Tell us what you run.
An introduction costs nothing. You talk straight away to one of the two people who will actually do the work.
or email info@jevana.systems