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The website audit consists of a detailed and summary analysis of all aspects of the web or mobile interface: graphic, editorial, technical, marketing, etc. The objective is to evaluate its performance and identify its strengths and weaknesses.
Indeed, the evaluation of the website allows to understand the defects of use and the risks which can harm its competitiveness and profitability.
It also allows us to reinforce the efficiency of the site by exploiting innovation opportunities.
The UX audit (or UX evaluation, or UX review) focuses on a careful analysis of the user experience of the website. It allows to understand the friction points of the website in order to optimize the UX path.
The audit of the user experience consists in comparing the characteristics of the website to a set of standard ergonomic criteria (or grid of criteria), such as Nielsen's heuristics, Bastien & Scapin's criteria or Amélie Boucher's ergonomic criteria.
UX analysis is based on the human dimension and the user's feelings in order to evaluate the site's ability to ensure a flexible journey. It consists of putting oneself in the user's shoes and sifting through all the pages of the site. This makes it possible to gauge its effectiveness in helping the Internet user easily reach his objective and quickly find the information he is looking for.
The ergonomic audit essentially concerns these angles:
To ensure the sustainability of your online store, it is strongly recommended to audit your site regularly (on a weekly or monthly basis). This guarantees you to constantly monitor the evolution of your online sales. In this way, you can optimize your customer acquisition strategies and your sales path.
The audit of an e-commerce site is an important factor in optimizing your conversion rate. You should do this in the event of a redesign or a sudden or lasting drop in your conversion rate.
This analysis concerns several aspects, such as the sales funnel, the visitor's path, the ergonomics of the web interfaces, etc.
This step consists of evaluating the profitability of your online sales strategy. This audit is based on certain performance indicators, such as :
You need to monitor these KPIs on a daily basis in order to optimize the performance of your online sales technique on a regular basis. This helps you to maintain a stable or high conversion record in the long term.
This audit allows you to analyze the volume and type of traffic on your e-commerce site. In addition, it helps you understand the behavior of your visitors and their level of interest in your product.
Google Analytics is the most requested tool to carry out this audit, based on these indicators:
These indicators, in addition to other indices, allow you to determine your conversion rate and evaluate the level of effectiveness of your e-commerce strategy.
The audit of an informational website is less critical than an e-commerce site, because it can be performed less regularly than the latter. It can be applied once a year or with a quarterly frequency, for more specific needs.
This audit can be recommended at the time of these observations:
As with the e-commerce site, you can consider several types of audit: competitive, technical, SEO, etc.
The competitive audit provides an accurate analysis of the state of the competition and your market positioning. This study focuses on the following aspects :
The technical audit allows you to identify the gaps that are destroying the performance of your site. This mainly concerns :
Capian is a new tool for website auditing. It allows an ergonomic, marketing and competitive audit to be carried out through an intuitive platform and a set of practical functionalities.
As far as UX auditing is concerned, Capian provides greater flexibility to study your interfaces comfortably. With this tool, you can define your own ergonomic rules that are aligned with your field of activity and your objectives.
Here are the main features provided by Capian :
Quickly capture the interfaces of your site or mobile application using the Chrome extension. You can annotate and categorize your captures, according to custom or predefined criteria and tags.
Capian also gives you the ability to prioritize your captures, from a simple observation to the most extreme critical level, providing you with information about the impact of this concern on user experience performance.
Watch how to take captures with the Chrome extension
Capian is a complete UX/UI evaluation tool for web interfaces. It is an effective solution to achieve substantial savings in your interface review process. It allows you to :
Website auditing is a major task to monitor the health of your digital device. This analysis allows you to quickly identify the factors that negatively impact the performance of your site and make it less desirable by the Internet user.
With the profusion of audit tools, you can choose the most relevant solution that suits your objectives and needs. For example, the Capian tool presents itself as a high-performance solution to easily audit your site and generate your report in collaboration with all the actors of the project.
You can use other free auditing tools, such as Google Analytics, GTMetrix, Seolyzer, Outiref, etc. These solutions generally analyze the referencing and technical performance of the site. Or you can opt for paid tools to obtain more developed results with more information, such as SEMRush, Screaming Frog, Ahrefs, etc.
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