What is GovCMS?
GovCMS is a whole-of-government open source web content management system designed by government for government and hosted on a secure public cloud. Find out more about GovCMS
Why you might need site audits and technical reviews
You may need a site audit and/or technical review for a number of reasons, such as:
-
Reduce performance risks: Site audits and technical reviews can help identify any site performance issues and make recommendations on how to fix the issue(s).
-
Reduce/remove security risks: Audits identify security risks and give you strategies to reduce or remove the security risk.
-
Maintenance issues: An audit or review can help identify, and provide recommendations on how to fix, issues that will make your site difficult to maintain in the future.
-
Best practices: In general, audits and reviews will help your site adhere to best practice when it comes to site performance, security, usability, etc.
Benefits of site audits and technical reviews
Site audits and technical reviews provide the following benefits:
-
Improved maintenance levels: When a site is built following best practices, it decreases maintenance issues.
-
More responsive (faster) site: Following best practices will also ensure a more responsive, faster site. There are also specific areas that can be optimised to ensure a fast Drupal/GovCMS site.
-
Improved Google rankings: Sites that load faster are returned in Google searches with a higher ranking than sites of a similar ‘value’ in other areas.
Fixed price packages
Salsa offers three audit and technical review packages:

Site audits
Best practice audits covering architecture, development, performance, configuration and security. Simple site audit package: $7,410 +GST

Security audits
Best practice audits to assess compliance with solutions for common security exploits and vulnerabilities, includes recommended remediation plan and high level cost assessment. Simple security audit package: $7,410 +GST

Performance audits
Includes testing to assess site performance and identify deficiencies, includes identification of recommended optimisation and high level cost assessment. Three-day performance audit: $6,240+GST
What you get
What you get varies depending on the type of service, but at the end of our site audit, security audit or performance audit you will get a report that details all issues/problems we’ve found and suggested fixes.
You’ll also get access to:
-
The digital agency that’s the official service provider of the entire GovCMS platform and program
-
A highly qualified and experienced digital agency that has delivered over 30 GovCMS projects since 2015
-
GovCMS product and project delivery specialists with extensive experience in site performance and security
-
A team of skilled Drupal developers
-
GovCMS technical solution architect to provide a high level of technical governance and oversight to your project