Free WordPress speed audit for UK businesses
Slow WordPress website? Find the bottlenecks before paying for a rebuild.
Get a free written WordPress speed report with 3 to 7 prioritised fixes, delivered within five working days. See what is worth investigating and whether you want professional help implementing it.
Manual review. No follow-up unless you request it. Implementation work is scoped and quoted separately.
People we've worked with
Real projects, built together
Trusted by Businesses Across the UK
Evidence before a rebuild
Understand the problem, not just the score.
A lab test, real-user performance and business outcomes answer different questions. We explain what the available evidence shows and what would need further access or measurement.
Lab
Repeatable tests of particular pages and conditions
Useful for diagnosis, not a record of every visitor
Field
Real-user experience where sufficient data is available
Missing field data is not a pass or a failure
Tasks
The actual mobile journeys customers need to complete
Check browsing, enquiry and purchase steps
Value
Business impact needs enquiry and sales evidence
A URL alone cannot reveal lost revenue
What the audit includes
Five things you'll know by the end of next week.
A manual review of your public pages, supported by performance tools and specific resource observations. The report separates confirmed findings from likely causes that require private access to investigate. No obligation to buy implementation.
Identify observed images, scripts and loading behaviour on representative public pages. Confirming a private plugin, theme function or server configuration may require a separately agreed diagnostic step.
What's actually slowing your site down
Explain which customer tasks are affected and the limits of the evidence. Quantifying lost enquiries or revenue requires reliable analytics and business records; it cannot be inferred from a public speed test.
Why it matters for your business
Each one specific to your site. Some you can do yourself or hand to your existing developer. Some need specialist work. Either way, you know what to ask for.
Three to seven concrete actions, ranked by impact
Compare targeted optimisation with a larger rebuild, stating what is known and what needs investigation. A poor score alone is not evidence that replacing the site is the best investment.
Honest verdict: optimise or rebuild?
Real numbers, agreed key pages, mobile-first. So if you decide to fix it (with us or anyone else), you have a benchmark to measure against.
Real PageSpeed targets and how to measure them
Send us your URL.
Share your website and any useful notes. Your written report includes 3 to 7 prioritised fixes within five working days. No administrator access is needed for this public-page review.
If you're wondering why this is free.
The audit gives you a useful diagnosis and lets us demonstrate how we work. Some recipients may commission implementation, but buying a rebuild is not a condition of receiving the report.
- We're a small UK team. Our best clients are people who need a rebuild, not people who buy £199 audits.
- Doing one audit takes us 1-2 hours. If even a small fraction of audit recipients turn into rebuild clients, the maths works.
- Automated tools provide useful measurements. Our role is to interpret those findings, identify practical next steps and state what has not yet been verified.
- If your site needs optimisation rather than a rebuild, the audit might tell you to do that yourself or with another developer. That's fine. We'd rather you trust the audit than feel ambushed.
- No follow-up emails unless you ask for them. No automated nurture sequence. You get the report, you do what you want with it.
Recent work
Recent WordPress builds with performance built in.
These are the kinds of WordPress sites we audit, rebuild and optimise: custom themes, large service structures, local SEO pages and media-rich portfolios that still need to feel fast on mobile.
What clients say about working with us.
Matt and his team did the most wonderful job in creating our new website for Booked Images…
Angie Jones
Booked Images
I am the first author Matt has ever had, and it has worked like a dream. Everything I have asked for has been done quickly and efficiently. I cannot recommend Matt and his team highly enough…
Jeremy J Mills
Author
Matt did a fantastic job of creating my website and working on my SEO. He was very helpful and patient, and always happy to explain everything, which is very helpful if you are not very technical. I'm very happy with the results and would definitely recommend.
Liz Patey
Owner, Liz Patey Makeup
MattDarm manages social media for our real estate agency and we finally have everything in order. Their professional approach, quick responses, and excellent communication have made us far more visible to our clients. Highly recommended!
Alina Stefanovičiūtė
Owner, Global Properties AS Real Estate
MattDarm built the Cancer Black Care website from scratch and the result is an invaluable resource for our community. Their dedication and expertise were evident throughout, and they went above and beyond to meet every requirement. Highly recommended!
Paul Campbell
Managing Director, Cancer Black Care
We initially hired Matt for a specific project to help us improve and develop our LMS on LearnDash. He did such an excellent job that what started as one project quickly developed into an ongoing working relationship…
Marcelo Pereira
General Manager, Interface Aesthetics
I have used Matt on 2 brand projects. He is an extremely talented, resourceful and responsive creative force. He produces results for businesses ranging from millions to billions in value in variety of sectors. Highly recommended.
Paul Kells
After trying many different agencies, MattDarm is exactly what I was looking for. They don't just deliver — they consult on the why behind every decision. Everything is built around the long-term success of my business, and that's made all the difference.
Adam Saez
Owner, Plant Power Academy
I've worked with MattDarm for several years. They consistently produce the highest quality work with an excellent range of expertise. Always delivered on time and a pleasure to work with — highly recommended.
Daniel Ashby
CEO, Digitally Responsive
MattDarm's sites are visually stunning and technically up to date. A really great team to work with — professional, creative, and always on point.
Paul Harvey
Owner, Paul Harvey
Matt has been absolutely brilliant. I came into this project with a pretty clear idea of what I wanted, but also changed my mind about things constantly as we went. Matt just rolled with it. Nothing was ever too difficult and there was never any drama, he'd just work out how to make it happen…
Josh Broyda
Complete Office Fitouts
We recently used MattDarm to rebuild our website and add a shop. From the beginning, Matt was professional, helpful, honest and transparent, and surprised us with ideas we would never have thought of…
Amira Sari
Client, Tile In Progress
MattDarm built the Rockee website from scratch with excellent results. They took my brief, helped with wireframes and design, and handled both front-end and back-end development. The end result was a high-converting, successful website.
Matt Laybourn
Owner, Rockee
MattDarm did an amazing job with our Beans Coffee Club site. They handled all the technical work like pros and delivered everything on time. Easy to work with and super dependable — would hire them again in a heartbeat.
Richard Jones
Managing Director, Beans Coffee Club
MattDarm has been a reliable partner across several IT projects. Their technical knowledge is impressive, but what sets them apart is a problem-solving attitude and the ability to bring clarity to even the most complex situations. High-quality results, every time.
Michael Borzecki
Owner, 6 Pack Supplements
How it works
Four steps. Five working days. £0.
01
Send your URL
Share your name, email and website URL, with any useful notes. Once your request is received, we send an acknowledgement and prepare the written report within five working days.
02
We audit your site (within 5 working days)
We run the audit manually, write the report, pull the numbers. No back-and-forth required from you. If we have a quick question, we'll email.
03
Written report arrives in your inbox
PDF, 4-8 pages, plain English, with screenshots and ranked recommendations. Yours to keep regardless of what happens next.
04
Optional 20-minute walkthrough call
If you want, we book a quick chat to walk through findings. Or just read the report and ignore us. Your call. No follow-up unless you ask for one.
Make an informed decision
Is this the right next step for your business?
WordPress owners who need to distinguish a slow page from a theme, hosting or third-party integration problem before commissioning work.
What a useful brief includes
- Send the public URL and describe the slow customer journey.
- Share PageSpeed or field reports if available; do not send passwords in the enquiry form.
- Private plugin, server and revenue analysis requires separately agreed access and evidence.
Agree what success means
A public-page audit can identify observed resources and likely causes. It cannot determine your lost revenue or inspect private plugin and server code from a URL alone. Recommendations should state those limits and the next diagnostic step.
Compare your options
What the actual project work demonstrates
Liz Patey Makeup | WordPress Rebuild
Custom WordPress templates replaced an off-the-shelf theme while keeping a visual portfolio central.
GTS Reading | WordPress Redesign
A theme-based rebuild accommodated a larger service, industry and fleet structure. The implementation followed the brief rather than a rule that every site must be custom-coded.
These examples document the delivered work. They do not establish a before-and-after increase in enquiries, sales or search rankings.
Questions
Get the free audit. Five working days. No catch.
Send us your URL. We'll send you a real written report explaining what's slowing your site down and how to fix it. Manually written by our team, not auto-generated. No follow-up unless you ask for one.
Rather just talk?
If you'd prefer a quick 30-minute chat instead of waiting 5 days for a written report, book a discovery call. No prep needed.