Claim your free website audit

Most businesses across North Shields and the wider North East already have a website. Far fewer have one that is genuinely bringing in new enquiries. That is why we are inviting local business owners to claim a free website audit from NE1 Web Design & SEO: a clear, evidence-based look at what your site does well and what is quietly holding it back.

Plenty of owners we speak to have a site that looks perfectly fine, yet the phone is not ringing and the contact form sits quiet for weeks. The cause is rarely bad luck. It is usually a handful of technical gaps or missed SEO opportunities costing you customers every day.

Why a website that looks fine can still be failing you

A good-looking design and a high-performing website are not the same thing. Your site can be clean, modern and on brand, and still lose you business for reasons you cannot see from the front end.

Maybe it loads too slowly on mobile. Maybe Google cannot properly read your pages, so you never rank for the searches that matter in North Tyneside. Maybe your contact details are buried, or the call to action is so soft that nobody knows what to do next. None of this shows when you glance at your own homepage. All of it shows up in a proper website audit.

What our free website audit covers

Our website audit follows the full journey from a Google search through to a completed enquiry, focusing on four areas.

Conversion analysis

We look at why visitors land on your site and leave without getting in touch. Often it comes down to weak calls to action, a confusing layout, or asking for too much too soon. Small changes here frequently produce the biggest lift in enquiries.

Technical SEO

We check what Google cares about under the bonnet: page speed, mobile performance, indexing, broken links, structured data and the technical foundations that decide whether you can rank at all. If you want a quick feel for your own speed scores beforehand, Google’s PageSpeed Insights tool is a good place to start.

User experience

We review how easy your site is to use, especially on a phone, where most local searches now happen. Clear navigation, readable text, fast loading and obvious next steps keep people on the page long enough to become customers.

Local visibility

We assess how well you show up for local searches across North Tyneside and beyond. That covers your Google Business Profile, local rankings, reviews and your presence in the Map Pack, where high-intent customers look first.

Key point: A website audit is not a vague opinion. It is a structured assessment across conversion, technical SEO, user experience and local visibility, with a clear list of what to fix and why.

The problem with guessing

When enquiries dry up, the temptation is to change things at random. A new headline here, a different photo there, maybe a full redesign because the site feels dated. Sometimes it helps. More often it changes nothing, because the real problem was never the thing you changed.

Guessing costs you twice: once on the wasted effort, and again on the enquiries you keep losing while the real issue goes unaddressed. A data-led website audit cuts through that. You find out what is actually wrong, fix the highest-impact issues first, and stop pouring effort into things that were never the bottleneck.

How to claim your free website audit

1. Get in touch. Send us your website address and a line or two about your business through our contact page.
2. We review your site. A real person looks through your pages, rather than sending an automated report full of jargon.
3. You get a prioritised roadmap. We explain what is holding the site back and what to tackle first.
4. You decide what happens next. There is no obligation. Some businesses fix things themselves; others ask us to help.

Built for long-term results, not quick fixes

Anyone can promise an overnight jump in traffic. We would rather turn your website into a dependable source of leads. That is why a free website audit is the right place to start: it gives us, and you, an honest baseline.

From there we can prioritise the work that genuinely matters, whether that is a few targeted fixes, a longer-term plan through our ongoing SEO service, or a rebuild through our web design team. Every decision after a website audit is based on evidence, not a hunch. You can see where that approach has led in our work.

Ready to find out what your website could be doing?

We are based in North Shields and work with businesses right across the North East. If your site is not bringing in the enquiries it should, you do not have to keep guessing why. Get in touch to claim your free website audit and we will show you what your site could really be doing for your business.