Umbraco Health Check

A Cogworks Umbraco Health Check typically takes one to two weeks from access confirmation to final report, depending on the complexity of your site. The technical review itself usually takes 3 to 5 working days. Once complete, we schedule a walkthrough session to talk you through the findings and answer questions. Most clients receive the full report, profiling results, and prioritised fix plan within two weeks of providing access.

A Cogworks Umbraco Health Check is specifically designed to find problems that aren't visible from the front end. Poor coding standards, non-standard Umbraco development practices, unoptimised database queries, misconfigured caching, and infrastructure issues all affect performance, hosting costs, and long-term stability without being obvious to visitors or editors. One of our health check clients, Days Out Guide, had page load times of up to 20 seconds and site outages under just 50 concurrent users. The site appeared functional, but the underlying code and configuration were critically compromised. The health check revealed exactly what was wrong and led to performance improvements of over 1,000%.

A Cogworks Umbraco Health Check goes far beyond what Umbraco's built-in dashboard covers. The built-in health checks are configuration-level flags: HTTPS, debug mode, email settings. They don't assess code quality, database performance, content architecture, package hygiene, infrastructure efficiency, or security posture. Our health check is a full technical audit carried out by Umbraco-certified developers who manually review your codebase, profile your database queries, assess your hosting setup, and evaluate your backoffice structure against best practices. The built-in checks are a starting point. A Cogworks health check is the full diagnostic.

Yes. Every finding in a Cogworks Umbraco Health Check is rated as imperative, important, or recommended. Imperative issues are things that need fixing now because they affect stability, security, or performance in a material way. Important issues should be addressed soon to prevent them from becoming imperative. Recommended items are improvements that would make the site better but carry less risk if deferred. The report also explains what each fix involves and the likely impact, so your team can plan work confidently. For clients who want to keep moving, the health check feeds directly into a Spark roadmap.

No, and in most cases a rebuild isn't what's needed. A Cogworks Umbraco Health Check usually reveals a mix of quick fixes, targeted improvements, and longer-term structural work. Many clients address the imperative items first with a short stabilisation sprint, then plan the remaining work over time. The health check gives you clarity on what your site actually needs, which is often significantly less dramatic than a full rebuild. You receive the complete report and fix plan regardless of what you decide to do next. Some clients hand the findings to their own development team. The report is yours to use however you need.