WIX · CMS AUDIT

A brutally honest Wix website audit

The internet will tell you Wix sites can't be made fast. That's wrong. They can't be made as fast as a hand-coded site, but most of the things slowing them down are things you can fix from inside the Wix editor in an afternoon. ShiteScore tells you exactly which.

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What makes ShiteScore different on Wix

Most audit tools designed for developers treat Wix like a black box and shrug. ShiteScore is built for the person who actually owns the Wix site. Every fix in the report is something you can do from the Wix editor — "Settings → SEO → Site description", "Manage Pages → [page] → SEO", "Add element → Wix Forms", and so on. No "edit your nginx config" advice that you can't action.

Image weight. Wix's image handler is decent but only when you let it work. Full-resolution images uploaded directly to galleries bypass the optimisation. The audit flags every page where this is happening and tells you which images to re-upload.

Heavy apps from the App Market. Many Wix App Market plugins inject substantial third-party JavaScript. The audit identifies which apps are loading on your homepage and ranks them by performance impact.

SEO fields you didn't fill in. Wix gives you per-page SEO controls that most users never touch. Default meta descriptions, missing alt text on hero images, generic page titles. The audit lists every page where these need fixing — including the exact menu path in the editor.

What we typically find on Wix sites

In rough order of impact:

Generic page titles. "Home", "About", "Contact". Wix's default. Worth ten minutes to fix and worth a meaningful SEO bump.

Missing alt text on hero images. Wix templates don't prompt for it; most users never add it. Both an SEO and an accessibility problem.

Heavy gallery components. The Pro Gallery is gorgeous and slow. If you have one above the fold, it's probably the single biggest performance issue on your site.

App Market overload. Live chat, popup builder, accordion FAQ, Instagram feed, social proof toaster. Each one adds load time. Most users never disable the ones they don't use.

No structured data beyond Wix's defaults. LocalBusiness, FAQ, HowTo schema can all be added via Wix's "Custom Code" feature. ShiteScore flags which would help most.

Mobile-only issues. Wix's mobile editor is independent of desktop, and most users ignore it. The audit checks both viewports separately.

15 pages, six categories. Every fix written for Wix specifically, with editor menu paths and setting names. £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.