Performance Troubleshooting for <Site Name>
This is backend audit sample for your site, check out the frontend audit sample.
🛠️ Fixes Attempted During Session
This section outlines any fixes we attempted during the troubleshooting session. This helps us all know the positive or negative effects of our changes.
1. Fix 1 for problem X
- What we hoped it would fix with evidence – hopeful outcome
- Results – actual outcome
- Any cautions/warnings for the future
2. Fix 2 for problem Y
- What we hoped it would fix with evidence – hopeful outcome
- Results – actual outcome
- Any cautions/warnings for the future
🦄 Special Considerations
Special considerations like particular landing pages that are key to the user journey of the site.
Any specific user actions like adding to the cart, signing up on a registration page etc
🧭 Areas of Concern
Specific areas of concern in executive summary format
⏱ Short Term Solutions
These are action items which can generally be completed in a matter of days after testing on a staging site and can provide positive results.
⏰ High Priority
1. Issue 1
✅ Advantages
- Reduces API calls
❌ Disadvantages
- Have to remember it is configured there (document in changelog) and working
2. Issue 2
⏳ Low Priority
1. Clean database tables: X, Y and Z
✅ Advantages
- Reduces database backup and restore times
- Makes database queries faster and uncached responses faster
❌ Disadvantages
- Can be time-consuming and wrong data can be deleted
🔔 Exception(s)
- Test thoroughly on a staging website
🗓 Long Term Solutions
These are action items which can take weeks or months to test thoroughly but they should be done if there is enough time and budget.
⏰ High Priority
1. Remove X and replace with Y
✅ Advantages
- Removes bloat from the website and reduces TTFB
❌ Disadvantages
- Can be time-consuming
🔔 Exception(s)
- Test thoroughly on a staging website
⏳ Low Priority
1. Separate the environments
✅ Advantages
- Avoids a lot of native performance issues
❌ Disadvantages
- Generally requires SSO to make the UX smooth
- Can be time-consuming and expensive
🔔 Exception(s)
- Can cause unexpected behavior on the site
🔍 Future Investigation
Section for areas that deserve a special audit devoted especially to them
🗂️ Overview
Screenshots of application processing time
🐢 Potential Bottlenecks
Summary of different processes tracked as taking a long time to complete.
Slow Transaction 1
Evidence of slow action
What is responsible for the slow action
Suggestions on how to resolve
🖥️ Hosting and Infrastructure
This section covers the suitability of your DNS, hosting and infrastructure.
🗄️ Hosting
Evaluation of hosting environment and recommendations of any changes.
🌐 Infrastructure
Feedback on
- CDN and CDN-like services
- Reverse Proxy
- Server structure feedback
🔌 Plugins
Plugins causing issues with evidence where possible
Suggested solutions
Recommended alternatives
🖌️ Theme
Theme recommendations and feedback
🎨 Design
Design feedback and recommendations performance where relevant
Explanation of why the element is slow and how it can be improved
Element on this is taking Y time to load and delaying the page load time or key performance metric
💾 Database
Slow query with evidence and exact query where possible
What’s responsible for the slow query
How it can be fixed
Reported to plugin/theme developers
Database table issues
↪️ External Services
External Service 1
Problems and evidence
Suggested solutions
📃 Appendix
<site-name> Audit Script Raw Data – WP Bullet
Auditing <site-name>
WordPress Core Version 5.9.1
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