--- title: Ecommerce Audit date: 2026-03-04T11:18:00+01:00 author: Santiago Melluso canonical_url: "https://www.takefortytwo.com/en/services/ecommerce-audit/" section: Services --- [Services](https://www.takefortytwo.com/en/services/)[Back to listing](https://www.takefortytwo.com/en/services/)Strategy & Consulting # Ecommerce Audit You can’t fix what you can’t see. And most ecommerce operations have more blind spots than their teams realize — not from lack of effort, but from lack of distance. Our Ecommerce Audit is a structured, no-fluff diagnostic across four dimensions: performance, technology, marketing, and strategy. We look at what your site is doing, how your stack is holding up, where your traffic is going (and why it’s not converting), and whether your priorities are actually aligned with your goals. The output is a clear, prioritized roadmap. Not a list of 200 recommendations you’ll never act on — a ranked, realistic guide to what matters most, in what order, and why. We tell you what to fix now, what to plan for, and what to stop worrying about. Most projects fail before they start because someone skipped this step. We made it the foundation of everything we do. **This is for you if:** - You’re about to invest in a redesign, replatform, or new campaign — and want to make sure you’re solving the right problems. - You’ve been running the same ecommerce operation for a while and have a nagging feeling something’s off, but can’t pinpoint what. - Your team is busy but not sure they’re working on the right things. - You’ve brought in a new agency or hired a new lead and need an honest baseline before moving forward. **What you’ll get from this:** - A full diagnostic report covering performance, technology, marketing, and strategy. - A prioritized roadmap with clear recommendations ranked by impact and effort. - An honest assessment of what’s working, what isn’t, and what’s being ignored. - A shared language and set of priorities your whole team can align around. [Get in touch](https://www.takefortytwo.com/en/contact/) ## Frequently Asked Questions What exactly do you look at during the audit, technical SEO, UX, something else?We look at all four dimensions: performance, technology, marketing, and strategy, because most audits only cover one, which is why the fixes rarely stick. That means what your site is doing, how your stack is holding up, where your traffic goes and why it doesn’t convert, and whether your priorities match your goals. Technical SEO and UX sit inside those dimensions, not instead of them. Do we get a giant list of 200 issues to fix?No, a giant unranked list is explicitly what we avoid. The output is a prioritized roadmap ranked by impact and effort: what to fix now, what to plan for, and what to stop worrying about. Two hundred recommendations you never act on is a report; a ranked, realistic guide is something your team can actually execute. We just brought in a new agency. Is this audit meant to grade their work?It’s meant to give you an honest, independent baseline, not a scorecard aimed at anyone. The audit covers performance, technology, marketing, and strategy, so everyone, including the new agency, starts from the same shared picture of what’s working and what isn’t. Most new agencies actually welcome it: a prioritized roadmap beats inheriting vague expectations. Couldn't our internal team just run this audit themselves?Your team could look at the same data; the hard part to fake internally is distance. Blind spots in an ecommerce operation rarely come from lack of effort, they come from being too close to the decisions being audited. An outside diagnostic across performance, technology, marketing, and strategy puts in writing what nobody inside wants to sign. We're about to start a redesign. Should we do this audit first or after?First, always: skipping the audit is the single most common reason redesign projects solve the wrong problem. The audit gives you a diagnostic across performance, technology, marketing, and strategy, so the redesign brief targets what’s actually broken instead of what’s most visible. Doing it after means paying to discover, post-launch, what you could have known before. What comes after the audit, do you also do the fixing?The audit ends with a prioritized roadmap ranked by impact and effort; execution is a separate engagement you can run with us or without us. Most clients move into [Ecommerce Roadmap & Backlog Planning](https://www.takefortytwo.com/en/services/ecommerce-roadmap-backlog-planning/) next, turning the findings into sequenced cycles with clear owners. The roadmap works whoever ends up executing it. ## You might also like #### Ecommerce Roadmap & Backlog Planning If everything is a priority, nothing is. The roadmap we help you build makes hard choices easy and keeps your team focused on what actually moves the needle. 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