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WebLothian

Free website health check

How healthy is your website?

Answer a few quick questions about your business and your website. While you answer, I take a first look at your site the way a customer and Google see it. Then your full report, with what to fix first and why, is emailed to you.

Takes a couple of minutes. Your report usually arrives by email within a few minutes.

What you will receive

  • A full report on your website, emailed to you within a few minutes.
  • What I find, most important first, each with why it matters and what to do about it.
  • Ideas shaped by what you tell me about your business and your day-to-day.
  • A link to book a free consultation if you would like a hand with any of it.

What to expect

  • Free, with no obligation
  • Checked by a person, not a computer
  • Your email used only for your results
  • One local person, from first call to finished job

Rather not fill in a form?

Book a free consultation on Calendly (opens in a new tab)

No call centre and no ticket queue. All three reach the person who would do the work.

Ben Harvie, founder of WebLothian

Ben Harvie

Founder of WebLothian, and the person who reads your message.

  • Founding engineer, huntrThe first engineer at a three-person startup that Protect AI bought.
  • Protect AI, bought by an S&P 100 firmHelped grow it until one of the hundred biggest companies in America bought it.
  • World’s first open-source bug bountyRan the first programme paying outside researchers to report security holes in free, shared code, which grew into the first for AI.
  • Twenty years in softwareMuch of it for American technology companies.
More about Ben

Ben looks at your answers himself and replies within one working day.

Free website health check

Your website

Do you have a website?

Leave this empty if you do not have a website yet.

Optional. A few searches your customers type, separated by commas, for example: plumber Edinburgh, boiler repair.

Optional. Separate the towns or areas with commas.

Optional. Up to two website addresses, separated by commas.

Your business

How many people work in the business, including you?

In case a quick call is easier than an email. I never share it.

When is best to call you?

Your website today

What are your biggest problems with your website or getting customers?

Tick any that apply. I look at these first.

Who updates your website now?

Has your website ever been hacked or stopped working?

Do you have a Google Business Profile?

The box with your opening hours, map and reviews that shows when somebody searches for your business.

Your day-to-day

Which everyday jobs would you happily hand over to a computer?

Tick any that apply.

Roughly how many hours a week go on jobs like these?

What do you use to run the business now?

Tick any that apply.

Do you take bookings or appointments?

Do you sell online?

Have you tried AI tools, such as ChatGPT, for the business?

Your plans

What would you most like your website to do for you?

Tick any that apply.

Do you have a budget in mind?

When would you like things sorted?

How did you hear about me?

Where to send your results

Your full report is emailed to you, with everything I found, most important first.

I use it to send your report. I may also send up to three short follow-up emails about it, and each one has a link to stop them.

I keep what you type here so I can check your website, send your report and follow it up. Read the privacy notice.

By getting your report you agree to receive occasional website tips from me. Unsubscribe any time.

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The checks

What I check

The same things a customer and Google notice, looked at by the person who would fix them.

  • Security

    The padlock in the address bar, when your security certificate runs out, and the settings that keep visitors safe.

  • Speed

    How quickly your pages start to load, how heavy they are, and whether your pictures are slowing them down.

  • Phones

    Whether your site fits a phone screen, with text big enough to read and buttons big enough to press.

  • Google

    Page titles, descriptions, headings, your sitemap and the details Google reads to understand your business.

  • Everyone can use it

    Picture descriptions, labelled form boxes and clear link wording, for visitors who use a screen reader.

  • Broken links

    Links that lead nowhere, and pages that bounce visitors through several addresses first.

  • Local customers

    Your name, address and phone number, a map, and the business details that help you show up nearby.

  • Getting in touch

    Whether a visitor can see how to call, email or book you without hunting for it.

Rather talk it through?

A free half hour, in person across Edinburgh and the Lothians or on Zoom, about what would help your business most.

Book a free consultation (opens in a new tab)Start the health check

Free, no obligation, and a written quote before any work starts.