IT and Website Audits for Cannabis Businesses

The full scope of a technical audit for a cannabis website: speed, security, age gates, accessibility, tracking and IT setup.

An audit is a structured look at everything that sits between a customer typing your name and your site doing what it should.

Speed and performance

  • Mobile load times on a typical connection
  • Image sizes, fonts and third-party scripts
  • Caching, hosting response and errors in the server log
  • Menu and product pages, which are often the slowest

Security

  • Software and plugin versions, and anything abandoned
  • Admin accounts, passwords and two-factor use
  • Backups: where they are and whether a restore works
  • Certificate, redirects and mixed-content warnings

Age gates

We check that the gate appears where it should, can’t be skipped by accident, is usable on mobile and with a keyboard, and doesn’t block search engines from reading your pages. See how to set up an age gate.

Accessibility

We test against common accessibility guidelines: contrast, headings, form labels, alt text, focus order and keyboard access. Details in why accessibility matters.

Tracking and data

We list every tag and pixel, what it collects and where it sends data. We check consent behaviour and flag tools whose policies restrict cannabis businesses. Read what tracking is safe.

IT setup

Domain registration and renewal, email authentication records, who has access to hosting and registrar accounts, and what happens if a staff member leaves.

The report

Findings ranked high, medium and low, each with evidence and a fix. A short summary for owners and a detailed list for developers. Cannabis rules differ between states and countries; this is technical guidance, not legal advice.