How to Health-Check Your Own Website: A 6-Step DIY Tutorial
A free, step-by-step website audit any small business owner can run in about 10 minutes — speed, mobile, SEO, broken links and more. No technical skills needed.
How to Health-Check Your Own Website
A slow, broken or hard-to-find website quietly costs you customers. The good news? You don't need to be a developer to audit your own site. This free tutorial walks you through six simple checks that take about 10 minutes — and you can run most of them with free tools.
What you'll need: your website URL, a phone, and about 10 minutes.
1. Test your load speed
Slow sites lose visitors before they even see your page. Run your URL through a speed tool and look at the mobile score — that's what most of your visitors experience.
What to look for: A mobile score under 50 means visitors on phones are waiting too long. Aim for 80+.
👉 Run a free health check with Mint — we'll explain the results in plain English.
2. Check mobile-friendliness
Most of your traffic comes from phones. Open your site on a mobile device and tap through every page. Does the text fit without zooming? Do the buttons work? Is anything cut off?
What to look for: If you have to pinch-to-zoom to read text or tap a menu, your site isn't mobile-friendly — and Google penalises that in search results.
👉 Test your site on PageSpeed Insights
3. Run the 3-second test
Visitors decide whether to stay in roughly three seconds. Load your homepage, count to three, and ask: can a stranger tell what you do and what to do next? If not, you're losing them.
What to look for: Your headline should say what you do and who it's for — not just your business name.
👉 Take the 3-second test with Mint
4. Find broken links & errors
Broken links frustrate visitors and hurt your search rankings. Click through your main pages and check every button and menu item. A free broken-link scanner can crawl your whole site in minutes.
What to look for: Watch for 404 "page not found" errors and links that go to the wrong place — both damage trust and SEO.
👉 Scan your site for broken links
5. Review your SEO basics
Can customers find you on Google? Search for your business and your services — not just your name. Check that each page has a clear title, a meta description, and text that mentions what you offer and where you're located.
What to look for: If you don't appear on page one for "[your service] [your suburb]", local customers can't find you.
6. Check your contact path
Your contact details should be one tap away from every page. Find your phone number, email and enquiry form — is the phone number clickable? Does the form actually send? Try it yourself.
What to look for: A contact form that doesn't send, or a phone number you can't tap, is quietly losing you enquiries.
👉 See a contact page done right
Your next steps
You've found what needs fixing. Now choose your path:
- Get a detailed report — run our free health check for a full breakdown of your site with plain-English fixes.
- Get a free quote — tell us what's broken and we'll quote the fix. No obligation, no agency price tag.
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