WEBFLOW · CMS AUDIT

A brutally honest Webflow website audit

Webflow gives designers more control than any other no-code platform. That's the strength and the problem. A Webflow site can be hand-tuned to score 95 on Lighthouse, or it can be over-customised to the point where the homepage weighs 8MB and the mobile score is 22. ShiteScore tells you which side of that line yours is on.

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What makes ShiteScore different on Webflow

Webflow audits typically come from agency-grade tools that assume you have a developer on retainer. ShiteScore is built for the designer or business owner who actually maintains the Webflow site, and the recommendations stay inside Webflow's Designer rather than asking you to write custom code.

Interactions and animations weight. Webflow's Interactions panel makes it easy to add scroll-triggered animations to every element on the page. Each interaction adds a small amount of JavaScript and a paint cost. Stack twenty across the homepage and you've added meaningful load time. The audit counts your interactions and flags the worst offenders.

CMS Collection list weight. Collection Lists that load every item upfront — rather than paginating or limiting — frequently become the slowest part of a Webflow site once the collection grows past 50 items. The audit checks every Collection List on your sitemap and flags ones that need pagination.

Hosted asset optimisation. Webflow's CDN serves your assets but doesn't auto-convert to next-gen formats by default for older sites. The audit checks for WebP/AVIF eligibility and flags images that should be converted.

What we typically find on Webflow sites

In rough order of impact:

Hero videos. Background video on the hero is a Webflow design trope. Set to autoplay, muted, looping. Often the single heaviest asset on the page.

Custom font loading. Multiple custom font families loaded as woff2 with no font-display: swap, blocking text rendering until the font arrives.

Embed and Custom Code overuse. Third-party widgets dropped into Embed elements without async loading. Each one blocks the main thread.

CMS Collection Lists without pagination. Blog index pages and case-study indexes loading 100+ items at once.

Missing schema. Webflow doesn't add structured data automatically. Most Webflow sites have none. The audit flags which schemas would matter most.

Mobile breakpoint regressions. Designs that work at the 1440px breakpoint and fall apart at 375px. The audit checks every breakpoint Webflow exposes.

15 pages, six categories. Every fix written for Webflow specifically, with Designer panel paths and embed-block snippets where relevant. £9.99 one-off. 7-day refund — we'll ask what went wrong, but we won't argue.

so. how shite is your site?

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FAQ

Reasonable questions.

Is this actually called ShiteScore?

Yes. It's called ShiteScore because that's the word people use when they look at their own website. The brand is the joke that's already in your head.

Will you ring me afterwards?

No. The whole product exists because we're sick of being rung up by agencies. We don't even have a phone number.

What if my score is really shite?

Then the report is more useful, not less. The lower the score, the more low-hanging fruit. We don't sugar-coat, but we also don't shame.

Refund policy?

7 days. If the report genuinely isn't useful to you — not just "I didn't like my score" — reply to your report email with the word "refund" and it's done within an hour. We'll ask what went wrong so we can improve it, but we won't argue.

Is this AI-generated slop?

The crawl and scoring are real data — PageSpeed Insights, a live site crawl, security header checks, DNS lookups. The fix steps are a mix: common, well-understood issues are served from a curated library of pre-reviewed, platform-specific instructions written and checked by a human. Novel or site-specific issues are generated by Claude AI from your actual audit data. Nothing is generic filler.

Which platforms do you support?

We detect your CMS automatically. WordPress, Shopify, Wix, Squarespace and Webflow all get platform-specific fix steps — naming the exact menu, plugin, or setting you need. WordPress sites also get a plugin version check: if your plugins are significantly out of date, we flag it with guidance on updating safely. For custom-built sites, we give you the general technical approach.