Leading brands, enterprises, and organizations are flocking to advanced and robust content management systems such as Drupal because they realize the need to focus on creating the best digital experience possible for their customers and website visitors.
However, as you already (hopefully) realize, building a website with a great UX is not enough to sustain steady growth in your website traffic and engagement. You need to continuously audit your website’s performance and effectiveness.
That is why we developed Drupal Audit - a FREE platform to help you measure and analyze your Drupal website performance.
Because Drupal 9 has been released this week; a Drupal site audit is probably on your mind anyway, and Drupal Audit will make your life easier to pinpoint all performance-related issues that need to be addressed in preparation for upgrading your website to Drupal 9 (if you haven't made the upgrade yet).
Using Drupal Audit you can benchmark and test performance across all key aspects of your Drupal website. In a matter of seconds Drupal Audit will provide you with the following:
Drupal Performance Audit
Drupal Audit will measure metrics such as:
- First Contentful Paint
- Speed Index
- Largest Contentful Paint
- Time to Interactive
- Total Blocking Time
- Cumulative Layout Shift
Drupal Accessibility Audit
All opportunities available for you to improve the accessibility of your Drupal website and user experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader:
- Names and Labels
- Contrast
- Navigation
… and many more key accessibility metrics and elements.
Drupal SEO Audit
Drupal Audit will measure your on-site SEO performance and ensure that your Drupal website pages are optimized for search engine results ranking. This audit will cover key issues such as:
- Content best practices
- Meta tags
- Links
- HTML formats
- Page indexing-related issues
- HTTP status
- Data structure
… and much more.
All the aforementioned audits cover both desktop and mobile performance.
How to Use Drupal Audit?
All you have to do is simply insert your Drupal website URL and hit START AUDIT.
Immediately, the Google Lighthouse-powered Drupal Audit platform will give you insights into your Drupal website performance and automatically generate best practices and recommended steps to take to enhance your Drupal website performance.
Note: The Drupal Audit tool has been tailored to consider the specific characteristics of Drupal websites when it comes to best practices - as Google Lighthouse measures against the needs of simpler and lighter websites with less complex requirements.