Free · South Florida
We audited our own websites first. The best one scored 81.
Not 100. Not 95. Eighty-one, on the site of the agency asking for your business. Put your address in and find out what yours gets — measured, in writing, with the evidence attached.
Free, no card, no contract. One report back within a business day. We ask for a name and email on the next screen and nothing else.
Receipts
The four sites we own, and what they scored.
Agencies publish audits of other people’s websites. Here are ours, run through the same tool on the same day, printed whether they flatter us or not.
Not one of them cleared 85. Every one has a list of things to fix, and we published the list rather than the average. If we will do that to ourselves in public, you can trust what the report says about you.
If your site is fine, the report says your site is fine.
The report scores out of 100, and at 85 or above it prints a sentence telling you we would not pitch you a rebuild and that your own developer can clear the rest in an afternoon. An audit that always concludes you need the person who wrote it is an advertisement, not an audit.What usually turns up
None of this is exotic. All of it costs you calls.
These are the things we find over and over on small business sites in Broward, Miami-Dade and Palm Beach. You will recognise at least one of them on your own.
01Your phone number is text, not a link
On a phone, tapping it does nothing. The customer has to memorise it, leave your site and dial it by hand. Most of them just call the next result instead.
02The page is wider than the screen
Something on it overflows, so the whole page slides sideways under their thumb. It reads as broken even when everything else works fine.
03Nothing to act on before they scroll
They land, they see a logo and a photo, and no phone number and no button. The decision to call or leave gets made in that first screenful.
04Nothing tells ChatGPT what you are
When someone asks an assistant for a plumber in Pompano, it answers from structured data. Without it you are not a candidate, however good your Google ranking is.
05It takes too long to show anything
Google treats anything over 2.5 seconds as poor. On the mid-range Android most of your customers actually carry, plenty of local sites are well past four.
06A wrong address still returns a page
Mistype a URL and the site quietly serves the homepage with a success code instead of an error. Search engines index the duplicates and your rankings split.
What arrives
One page. Plain English. Nothing you have to take on faith.
Every line carries the measurement underneath it, so you or whoever maintains your site can check it. Forward it to your developer and it reads as a work order, not a sales pitch.
- Price
- Free. There is no paid tier of this.
- Turnaround
- Within one business day. A person reads it before it goes out.
- Format
- One self-contained page. Opens offline, prints cleanly, forwards to anyone.
- The catch
- No catch, but a motive: some of you will ask us to fix what it finds. Most will not, and that is fine.
- What we will not do
- Add you to a list, call you unless you ask, or publish your report anywhere.
How it is scored
Four verdicts, and one of them sends you away.
The score is our own weighting of our own findings, not an industry standard. It exists to rank what to fix first.
We would not pitch you a rebuild.
Anything left is worth fixing, but none of it needs an agency. Take the list to your own developer and it is an afternoon of work.
The foundations are fine. It leaks in specific places.
Does not need rebuilding. Needs the listed items fixed, most of them hours rather than weeks. Worth getting quotes for the fixes first.
The site is working against the business, measurably.
A real decision: fix the list, or rebuild. Which is cheaper depends on how it was built, and that is a fair question to ask two or three people.
The site is costing customers right now.
Patching usually costs more than replacing at this point, because the problems are structural rather than cosmetic. Get more than one opinion.
Request one
Three fields. That is the whole process.
The only thing we genuinely need is the web address. The rest tells us who to send it to.
Who is reading it
A one-person agency in Fort Lauderdale.
Sun Coast Digital Media builds websites and runs social and paid media for small businesses across Broward, Miami-Dade and Palm Beach. The four builds we can show you, with the reasoning behind each decision, are on our client work page, and pricing is published rather than quoted on a call, on the pricing page.
The teardown is the same work we do on day one of a build. You are welcome to take it and go elsewhere.