Use the insights (and advice) from an audit to optimize your web platform

A code audit is a thorough analysis of the source code - the fundamentals - of your web platform or application. Our experts thus verify that the web platform you have built is of good quality and sufficiently clear to build on. The audit ensures that vulnerabilities or potential problems of your website are brought to the surface. Plus, it offers insights into whether your web platform is set up according to standards.

A first bonus is that a code audit provides cost savings. This sounds double, because obviously it costs money to have a code audit performed, but in the long run it is cost saving. After all, you proactively identify issues, making it possible to address problems before they arise.

What other major benefits does a code audit offer?

• Security: The main reason for performing a code audit, is to identify security issues. During the audit, we actively detect vulnerabilities. Think of SQL injections or cross-site scripting (XSS), for example. By identifying those threats, you know how best to optimize the security of your web platform or application.

• Optimize performance: With a code audit, our experts detect inefficient code and bad programming practices. After the audit, you receive a report with all identified issues so you can fix them. This leads to a significant improvement in the speed and responsiveness of your web platform. Plus, you enrich its overall stability.

• Easy maintenance: It is a fact that well-structured code is easier to maintain. So, you can easily build on the existing code and add new features in the future, without creating unexpected issues.

• Regulatory compliance: Some industries are highly regulated. With a code audit, you can verify that your code (still) meets strict regulatory requirements.

A final benefit is increased satisfaction among visitors to your website. After all, software that does what it is supposed to do smoothly and without errors inspires confidence in users.

During a code audit, our technical architects compare your online environment with a "standard" environment. To do this, they go through the following steps:

• Retrieving the code and the database

• Setting up a local environment

• Examining the differences with the standard environment

• Documenting the differences

• Advice

Once the audit is over, our experts formulate clear advice on the next steps. You will receive both short-term and long-term suggestions to optimize your platform in terms of code quality.

In doing so, our experts identify the following topics:

• System information

• The various modules

• The theme (front-end)

• Javascript

• The security

• The performance

• GIT Flow & version control

• The integrations

The findings that surface during such an audit can be highly technical. But don't stress: our experts provide a report in human language. In it, they formulate clear recommendations for the future to continue to guarantee the quality of the code.

Are you curious about the stability and performance of the code used on your web platform or application? Let us help. Contact our experts for a free consultation so we can optimize your web platform.