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Find where your website
loses buyers
before they ever enquire

A UX audit is a structured expert review of your website’s key journeys, combining heuristic evaluation, analytics analysis, session-recording review, and accessibility and performance checks. The output is not a list of opinions; it is a prioritised roadmap of specific issues, each ranked by expected commercial impact against implementation effort, so your team knows exactly what to fix first.

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~70%of the B2B buying journey happens on your website before anyone speaks to sales — friction there is friction in your entire pipeline
10–30specific, actionable issues surface in a typical B2B UX audit — most of them invisible to the team that looks at the site every day
1sof added page load time measurably reduces conversions on commercial pages — and speed problems are among the most common audit findings

The people who built the site
are the worst placed to see
where it fails a first-time buyer

Familiarity is the enemy of usability judgement. Your team knows where everything lives, what the product does, and what the jargon means, so the site feels clear. A first-time visitor from a paid ad has none of that context and about ten seconds of patience. The gap between those two experiences is where pipeline quietly disappears.

A structured audit closes that gap with evidence rather than fresh opinions. Heuristic evaluation checks each key journey against established usability principles and B2B conversion practice. Analytics shows where visitors actually drop. Session recordings show what the drop looks like: the hesitation on the pricing page, the form abandoned at the fourth field, the mobile menu that traps people. Together they turn "the site could be better" into a specific, ranked list of what is broken, why it matters commercially, and what fixing it is worth.

Prioritisation is what makes an audit usable. Thirty findings dumped in a document get ignored; thirty findings scored by expected impact and effort become a quarter’s roadmap. We rank every issue so the first week’s fixes are the ones with the largest pipeline effect for the least engineering time, and the long tail is sequenced honestly rather than left to chance.

Signs your site needs a UX audit
01Traffic is healthy but enquiries are flat: visitors arrive, look around, and leave without a trace of why
02The site was last reviewed properly at launch, and has since accumulated years of pages, banners, and stakeholder requests
03Mobile conversion is dramatically worse than desktop, and nobody has watched a mobile session recording to find out why
04A redesign is being discussed, but the case for it is aesthetic rather than grounded in evidence about what actually fails
05Sales keeps hearing "we couldn’t find pricing" or "we weren’t sure what you do" from prospects who nearly did not enquire

How we audit a B2B website
so the findings get acted on

Three evidence streams, one prioritised roadmap. Every finding is specific, tied to a location, backed by evidence, and scored for impact against effort.

01

Heuristic & Best-Practice Review

A structured expert walk-through of your priority journeys (demo, pricing, contact, key landing pages) against usability heuristics and B2B conversion practice: proposition clarity, information scent, trust and proof, form design, and journey logic for multi-stakeholder buying. Every issue is documented with a screenshot, a severity rating, and a recommended fix.

02

Behavioural Data Analysis

GA4 funnel and segment analysis to locate where drop-off concentrates, paired with session-recording and heatmap review to explain it. Recordings turn abstract drop-off percentages into watchable moments of friction, and consistently surface issues no heuristic checklist predicts.

03

Technical, Speed & Accessibility Checks

Core Web Vitals and load performance on commercial templates, mobile experience review, and an accessibility check against WCAG fundamentals. These issues cost conversions directly, and in paid channels they also cost you money through quality and relevance scoring.

What makes our audits
turn into shipped improvements

Most audits die as PDFs. Ours are built to be executed: specific findings, honest prioritisation, and sized recommendations your developers can pick up directly.

Commercial ranking, not a severity list

Usability severity is not the same as business impact. A cosmetic issue on your highest-traffic landing page can outrank a broken element on a page nobody visits. Every finding is scored on expected pipeline effect and implementation effort, so the roadmap starts with the highest return per developer-hour.

Evidence attached to every finding

Each issue ships with its receipts: the recording clip, the funnel data, the screenshot, the heuristic it violates. That does two things: it ends internal debate about whether the problem is real, and it gives your team the context to fix the cause rather than the symptom.

B2B-specific evaluation criteria

Generic UX checklists were written for ecommerce. We audit against the realities of B2B buying: does the site serve a champion assembling a business case, a technical evaluator, and a finance stakeholder? Does the form qualify without repelling? Is there a next step for buyers who are not yet ready to talk to sales?

Fixes sized for your team

Recommendations are written to be actionable: what to change, where, and roughly what it takes to build. Quick wins are separated from structural work, so improvements start shipping in the first fortnight rather than waiting for a grand redesign that may never be scheduled.

What a Harmonic UX audit
delivers to your team

A complete diagnostic of your key journeys, delivered as a working roadmap rather than a static report.

Prioritised Findings Roadmap

Every issue scored by expected commercial impact and implementation effort, sequenced into quick wins, quarter-one fixes, and structural recommendations.

Journey-by-Journey Review

Heuristic evaluation of your priority journeys and templates, with annotated screenshots and severity ratings for every finding.

Behavioural Evidence Pack

The analytics funnels, heatmaps, and session-recording clips behind the findings, so stakeholders see the problems rather than take them on trust.

Speed & Core Web Vitals Report

Performance analysis of commercial templates with specific, sized recommendations for the issues costing conversions and ad efficiency.

Accessibility Fundamentals Check

A review against WCAG essentials, covering the issues that exclude users and create commercial and compliance risk.

Walkthrough & Prioritisation Session

A working session with your team to walk the findings, agree priorities, and turn the roadmap into scheduled work.

How a UX audit
runs from kick-off to roadmap

Three to four weeks from kick-off to a prioritised, evidenced roadmap your team can start shipping against immediately.

1
Week 1

Scoping & Data Access

We agree the priority journeys and templates, connect to analytics and recording tools, and gather context from marketing and sales on known friction points.

Audit ScopeData Access
2
Weeks 1–2

Evidence Gathering

Heuristic review, funnel and segment analysis, session-recording review, and speed and accessibility checks run in parallel across the agreed scope.

Heuristic ReviewBehavioural Analysis
3
Week 3

Synthesis & Prioritisation

Findings are consolidated, deduplicated, evidenced, and scored on impact against effort, then sequenced into a practical roadmap.

Findings RoadmapEvidence Pack
4
Week 4

Walkthrough & Handover

A working session with your team to review findings, pressure-test priorities, and agree what ships in the first fortnight, the first quarter, and beyond.

Prioritisation SessionAgreed Fix Plan

B2B UX audits — answered

The questions we hear from marketing and product teams considering a structured review of their site.

What does a UX audit actually involve?+

Three evidence streams run in parallel. An expert heuristic review walks your key journeys against usability principles and B2B conversion practice. Behavioural analysis uses your analytics, heatmaps, and session recordings to locate and explain where visitors drop. Technical checks cover speed, mobile experience, and accessibility fundamentals.

The synthesis is where the value sits: findings from all three streams are consolidated into one roadmap, each issue documented with its evidence and scored by expected commercial impact against implementation effort. You receive a sequenced plan, not a pile of observations.

How is a UX audit different from a website redesign?+

An audit is a diagnostic; a redesign is a treatment, and prescribing treatment before diagnosis is how companies spend six figures making their site prettier and their conversion rate worse. The audit tells you precisely what is failing, what it is costing, and what fixing it is worth, which often reveals that a full redesign is unnecessary.

When a redesign genuinely is warranted, the audit becomes its brief. Design decisions get grounded in evidence about what buyers struggle with, and the highest-risk changes get flagged for testing rather than shipped on faith. Companies that audit before redesigning avoid the most expensive mistake in B2B web work: the beautiful new site that converts worse than the old one.

How long does a UX audit take?+

Three to four weeks for a typical B2B site, covering the priority commercial journeys and templates. Week one is scoping and data access, weeks one to two are evidence gathering, week three is synthesis and prioritisation, and week four is the walkthrough and handover session.

Larger sites or multi-market estates extend the evidence-gathering phase rather than the whole process; the scope conversation at kick-off sets that honestly. Quick wins identified during the review are flagged as they are found, so obvious fixes do not wait for the final document.

What do you need from us to run the audit?+

Read access to your analytics (GA4) and, ideally, a session-recording tool such as Hotjar or Microsoft Clarity; if you have neither, we can deploy Clarity for free in minutes and gather two weeks of behavioural data during the audit. Beyond access, we need an hour with marketing and, ideally, thirty minutes with someone in sales who hears prospect friction first-hand.

No development work is required during the audit itself. The engineering effort begins after handover, and the roadmap is deliberately structured so your team can start with high-impact, low-effort fixes while planning the larger items.

What happens after the audit?+

The walkthrough session ends with an agreed plan: which quick wins ship in the first fortnight, which fixes are scheduled for the quarter, and which structural items need design or testing before they ship. Your team can execute that plan internally, or we can implement and validate it as part of an ongoing CRO programme.

For the highest-risk recommendations, particularly changes to core templates and forms, we advise validating through A/B testing rather than shipping blind. The audit tells you what is probably broken; testing proves the fix actually worked. The two together are how conversion improvement becomes a system rather than an event.

Ready to find out exactly where
your website loses buyers?

We’ll scope an audit of your key commercial journeys and show you what a prioritised, evidenced fix roadmap would cover for your site.