If you’re using Adobe’s Magento platform for your online business, ensuring that your technical code is up to par is essential. A technical code audit is necessary to help you identify and fix any issues with your code to improve your website’s performance, security, and stability.
Why Conduct a Technical Code Audit?
A technical code audit is a comprehensive review of your Magento website’s code, including its design, functionality, and security. The audit helps you identify issues in your code that may be affecting your website’s performance or security. Some of the reasons why you might consider conducting a technical code audit include the following:
Improved performance
The code audit can help identify and fix issues that may be slowing down your website, improving load times and user experience.
Enhanced security
Audit can identify vulnerabilities and security risks, allowing you to address them before malicious actors can exploit them.
Increased stability
One of the major aspects of a code audit is it can help ensure your website functions correctly and prevent crashes and errors.
Compliance
Code audits can help ensure your website meets industry standards and regulations, such as the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards(PCI DSS).
What's Involved in a Technical Code Audit?
A technical code audit involves a thorough examination of your website’s code. The audit typically includes the following steps:
Code review
A review of your website's code to identify any issues, including security vulnerabilities, performance bottlenecks, and code quality issues.
Testing
A series of tests to assess your website's performance, security, and stability.
Documentation
A detailed report outlining the findings of the audit, including recommendations for improvements.
Remediation
Addressing the issues identified in the audit, including fixing bugs, improving performance, and enhancing security.
Discover if you are following best practices.
Core code changes
If you've made any changes to the core code of Magento, it can affect the stability and security of your website. It's essential to ensure that any core code changes are made using best practices and are thoroughly tested before deployment.
Customizations
Customizations can be an essential part of your Magento website's functionality. However, poorly implemented customizations can lead to issues such as conflicts with other extensions or performance problems. It's essential to ensure that any customizations are implemented following best practices and are thoroughly tested.
Third-party extensions
Third-party extensions can be a powerful tool for extending the functionality of your Magento website. However, poorly implemented or outdated extensions can cause security vulnerabilities, performance issues, or conflicts with other extensions. It's essential to ensure that any third-party extensions used in your website are updated, secure, and follow best practices.
What's Included in a Technical Code Audit?
With your technical code audit, you’ll receive an audit report of your eCommerce website with actionable insights.
Magento security patches
Admin access best practices
Malicious content in DB and files
Admin user permissions
Speed Performance
Extensions-Modules evaluation
Customizations
Magento Best Practices enacted
Magento Core Files health
Theme analysis
Why businesses trust ioVista
As an experienced eCommerce agency, ioVista is well-equipped to conduct a technical code audit for a Magento website. With 19 years of experience in the industry, our agency has a deep understanding of the technical aspects of eCommerce websites, including Magento.
Our team consists of 30+ certified Magento developers who have extensive knowledge of Magento’s architecture and coding standards. We have a physical presence in the USA, India, and the Philippines, allowing us to provide our services globally with a localized approach.
Our certified developers have a wealth of experience in conducting technical code audits, ensuring that the code is optimized for performance, secure, and following best practices. They are well-versed in using tools such as SWAT for Adobe-Magento Commerce, NewRelic for monitoring, Profiler, Sonarqube, and other tools that can help identify potential issues and vulnerabilities in the code.
By choosing ioVista for your Magento technical code audit, you can benefit from our extensive experience in the eCommerce industry, our certified developer teams, and our global reach. We are committed to ensuring that your Magento website is running optimally, securely, and efficiently, helping you to provide the best possible user experience for your customers.
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This mode enables people with epilepsy to use the website safely by eliminating the risk of seizures that result from flashing or blinking animations and risky color combinations.
Visually Impaired Mode
Improves website's visuals
This mode adjusts the website for the convenience of users with visual impairments such as Degrading Eyesight, Tunnel Vision, Cataract, Glaucoma, and others.
Cognitive Disability Mode
Helps to focus on specific content
This mode provides different assistive options to help users with cognitive impairments such as Dyslexia, Autism, CVA, and others, to focus on the essential elements of the website more easily.
ADHD Friendly Mode
Reduces distractions and improve focus
This mode helps users with ADHD and Neurodevelopmental disorders to read, browse, and focus on the main website elements more easily while significantly reducing distractions.
Blindness Mode
Allows using the site with your screen-reader
This mode configures the website to be compatible with screen-readers such as JAWS, NVDA, VoiceOver, and TalkBack. A screen-reader is software for blind users that is installed on a computer and smartphone, and websites must be compatible with it.
Readable Experience
Content Scaling
Default
Text Magnifier
Readable Font
Dyslexia Friendly
Highlight Titles
Highlight Links
Font Sizing
Default
Line Height
Default
Letter Spacing
Default
Left Aligned
Center Aligned
Right Aligned
Visually Pleasing Experience
Dark Contrast
Light Contrast
Monochrome
High Contrast
High Saturation
Low Saturation
Adjust Text Colors
Adjust Title Colors
Adjust Background Colors
Easy Orientation
Mute Sounds
Hide Images
Virtual Keyboard
Reading Guide
Stop Animations
Reading Mask
Highlight Hover
Highlight Focus
Big Dark Cursor
Big Light Cursor
Navigation Keys
ioVista
Accessibility Statement
www.iovista.com
September 22, 2023
Compliance status
We firmly believe that the internet should be available and accessible to anyone, and are committed to providing a website that is accessible to the widest possible audience,
regardless of circumstance and ability.
To fulfill this, we aim to adhere as strictly as possible to the World Wide Web Consortium’s (W3C) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.1 (WCAG 2.1) at the AA level.
These guidelines explain how to make web content accessible to people with a wide array of disabilities. Complying with those guidelines helps us ensure that the website is accessible
to all people: blind people, people with motor impairments, visual impairment, cognitive disabilities, and more.
This website utilizes various technologies that are meant to make it as accessible as possible at all times. We utilize an accessibility interface that allows persons with specific
disabilities to adjust the website’s UI (user interface) and design it to their personal needs.
Additionally, the website utilizes an AI-based application that runs in the background and optimizes its accessibility level constantly. This application remediates the website’s HTML,
adapts Its functionality and behavior for screen-readers used by the blind users, and for keyboard functions used by individuals with motor impairments.
If you’ve found a malfunction or have ideas for improvement, we’ll be happy to hear from you. You can reach out to the website’s operators by using the following email
Screen-reader and keyboard navigation
Our website implements the ARIA attributes (Accessible Rich Internet Applications) technique, alongside various different behavioral changes, to ensure blind users visiting with
screen-readers are able to read, comprehend, and enjoy the website’s functions. As soon as a user with a screen-reader enters your site, they immediately receive
a prompt to enter the Screen-Reader Profile so they can browse and operate your site effectively. Here’s how our website covers some of the most important screen-reader requirements,
alongside console screenshots of code examples:
Screen-reader optimization: we run a background process that learns the website’s components from top to bottom, to ensure ongoing compliance even when updating the website.
In this process, we provide screen-readers with meaningful data using the ARIA set of attributes. For example, we provide accurate form labels;
descriptions for actionable icons (social media icons, search icons, cart icons, etc.); validation guidance for form inputs; element roles such as buttons, menus, modal dialogues (popups),
and others. Additionally, the background process scans all of the website’s images and provides an accurate and meaningful image-object-recognition-based description as an ALT (alternate text) tag
for images that are not described. It will also extract texts that are embedded within the image, using an OCR (optical character recognition) technology.
To turn on screen-reader adjustments at any time, users need only to press the Alt+1 keyboard combination. Screen-reader users also get automatic announcements to turn the Screen-reader mode on
as soon as they enter the website.
These adjustments are compatible with all popular screen readers, including JAWS and NVDA.
Keyboard navigation optimization: The background process also adjusts the website’s HTML, and adds various behaviors using JavaScript code to make the website operable by the keyboard. This includes the ability to navigate the website using the Tab and Shift+Tab keys, operate dropdowns with the arrow keys, close them with Esc, trigger buttons and links using the Enter key, navigate between radio and checkbox elements using the arrow keys, and fill them in with the Spacebar or Enter key.Additionally, keyboard users will find quick-navigation and content-skip menus, available at any time by clicking Alt+1, or as the first elements of the site while navigating with the keyboard. The background process also handles triggered popups by moving the keyboard focus towards them as soon as they appear, and not allow the focus drift outside of it.
Users can also use shortcuts such as “M” (menus), “H” (headings), “F” (forms), “B” (buttons), and “G” (graphics) to jump to specific elements.
Disability profiles supported in our website
Epilepsy Safe Mode: this profile enables people with epilepsy to use the website safely by eliminating the risk of seizures that result from flashing or blinking animations and risky color combinations.
Visually Impaired Mode: this mode adjusts the website for the convenience of users with visual impairments such as Degrading Eyesight, Tunnel Vision, Cataract, Glaucoma, and others.
Cognitive Disability Mode: this mode provides different assistive options to help users with cognitive impairments such as Dyslexia, Autism, CVA, and others, to focus on the essential elements of the website more easily.
ADHD Friendly Mode: this mode helps users with ADHD and Neurodevelopmental disorders to read, browse, and focus on the main website elements more easily while significantly reducing distractions.
Blindness Mode: this mode configures the website to be compatible with screen-readers such as JAWS, NVDA, VoiceOver, and TalkBack. A screen-reader is software for blind users that is installed on a computer and smartphone, and websites must be compatible with it.
Keyboard Navigation Profile (Motor-Impaired): this profile enables motor-impaired persons to operate the website using the keyboard Tab, Shift+Tab, and the Enter keys. Users can also use shortcuts such as “M” (menus), “H” (headings), “F” (forms), “B” (buttons), and “G” (graphics) to jump to specific elements.
Additional UI, design, and readability adjustments
Font adjustments – users, can increase and decrease its size, change its family (type), adjust the spacing, alignment, line height, and more.
Color adjustments – users can select various color contrast profiles such as light, dark, inverted, and monochrome. Additionally, users can swap color schemes of titles, texts, and backgrounds, with over 7 different coloring options.
Animations – epileptic users can stop all running animations with the click of a button. Animations controlled by the interface include videos, GIFs, and CSS flashing transitions.
Content highlighting – users can choose to emphasize important elements such as links and titles. They can also choose to highlight focused or hovered elements only.
Audio muting – users with hearing devices may experience headaches or other issues due to automatic audio playing. This option lets users mute the entire website instantly.
Cognitive disorders – we utilize a search engine that is linked to Wikipedia and Wiktionary, allowing people with cognitive disorders to decipher meanings of phrases, initials, slang, and others.
Additional functions – we provide users the option to change cursor color and size, use a printing mode, enable a virtual keyboard, and many other functions.
Browser and assistive technology compatibility
We aim to support the widest array of browsers and assistive technologies as possible, so our users can choose the best fitting tools for them, with as few limitations as possible. Therefore, we have worked very hard to be able to support all major systems that comprise over 95% of the user market share including Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, Opera and Microsoft Edge, JAWS and NVDA (screen readers), both for Windows and for MAC users.
Notes, comments, and feedback
Despite our very best efforts to allow anybody to adjust the website to their needs, there may still be pages or sections that are not fully accessible, are in the process of becoming accessible, or are lacking an adequate technological solution to make them accessible. Still, we are continually improving our accessibility, adding, updating and improving its options and features, and developing and adopting new technologies. All this is meant to reach the optimal level of accessibility, following technological advancements. For any assistance, please reach out to
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