Why a Magento Code Audit is Essential for your eCommerce Store

10 Sep 2022

Mike Patel

Why a Magento Code Audit is Essential for your eCommerce Store

Adobe Commerce/Magento is one of the most powerful, flexible, and scalable platforms offering multi-channel commerce experiences for B2B and B2C brands. Whether you’re a B2B ready-to-go direct-to-consumer (D2C) or a B2C managing several brands with different languages and currencies, Adobe Commerce lets you manage multiple sales channels and brands and expand into new markets, simply, from one platform.

However, growing exponentially requires a constant check for any possible coding vulnerability and removing it to make your website perform better.

ioVista offers Magento code audits that cover both the front and back end of Magento.

When Does Your Store Need A Magento Code Audit?

Does your website have technical issues or lack performance? Frequently updating your Magento 2 store should enhance security and performance. However, if you experience one or more issues from the following, you need a Magento code audit immediately.

Slow page loading speed
Part of the theme is not executed properly
Malfunction of updates
Frequent website crashes during high traffic
The website features do not work as they should
You require a security patch installation assessment
Not able to provide a seamless buying experience to your customers
Other possible vulnerabilities you think your website may have

Who Needs a Magento Code Audit?

A Magento Code Audit is a solution suitable for merchants who have already developed a Magento website and want to ensure code quality pre or post-launch, and for merchants that continuously experience poor application performance. Some of the questions that merchants have before engaging us for the Magento Code Audit service are:

How healthy is my Magento store?
Am I running on the latest version of Magento?
Are all the extensions on my website needed, and are they all upgraded?
Is my website missing any of the security patches issued by Magento?
Has my website been developed with the best Magento coding standards in mind?
How much can I scale with the current website as my eCommerce business grows?
How secure is my hosting environment?
Why is the backend/admin area on my Magento website so slow?
Why have my sales declined?

The answers to these questions are provided in detail in our Magento Code Audit, along with actionable suggestions and a roadmap to implement them, so you can ensure your Magento website is scalable, stable, and secure.

What is Reviewed in a Magento Code Audit?

– Magento Configuration review, indexing, caching

– Flat catalog review

– Review of database performance and issues, overall code review, core code changes, log files, custom module structure compliance to Magento standards

– Core code review & code security review

– Check for any JS-related error, code review & code security review

– CSS code review & code security review

– Review of all third-party extensions, reliability, and structure compliance

– A detailed review of all custom extensions

– Review of theme and front-end assets

– Cross-browser testing

– Performance review, minification, merging loading of product collection

– Check if security patches are applied

– Check if the server-side configuration is applied. Eg. permission, cron jobs, unnecessary inbound and outbound requests, and removing unused log files

– Review SEO meta tags to determine if they are appropriately defined

– Insight into the security status of your Magento shop(s) and how to fix possible vulnerabilities

– Google page speed check

– Magento code sniffer, a static test that uses static code analysis to detect violations of the Magento coding standard to prevent common coding errors

– Quality Assurance (QA) Audit Report:

Integration Testing
Functional Testing
System Testing

What Could Happen if You Don’t Review Your Magento Code?

Magento stores can get hacked
Spam attacks
Poor website loading speed
Problems in loading your best-selling products
Delays in loading recommended products
Errors in displaying Cross-sell, Up-sell products

Benefits of a Magento Code Audit

Performance optimization
Faster site loading
Faster Cross-sell, Up-sell product listing
Faster checkout
Live monitoring
Updates in extension codes for better user experience
Custom code optimization of extensions for unsupported coding standard
Theme and extensions compatibility check with the Magento version being used for optimum site performance

The Team at ioVista

Our developers who work on these audits are Adobe (Magento) certified, Magento 2 trained, and have experience working on all sizes of Magento stores. The Magento experts at ioVista have seamlessly performed complex setups like ERP and POS integrations, custom-built modules, Magento application optimization for peak performance, and employ Magento coding standards.

What do I Need to Provide for a Magento Code Audit?

You need to provide us SSH access to your server, Magento back-end credentials, Git/repo access, and Google Analytics in case we need to analyze the impact of the issues. And your store is all set!

Mike Patel

Mike Patel is a digital marketing enthusiast, innovator and President of a leading Digital and E-commerce Development Agency in Dallas, Texas. Mike holds a BS, Computer Science degree from Wayne State University and is a key player in the E-commerce development and digital marketing industry since 2004. The scope of technology in his extensive experience of more than 15 years ranges from Magento, Shopify, BigCommerce SEO (Search Engine Optimization), PPC (Pay Per Click) management, E-commerce SEO, Google Shopping Ads and more.