Most WordPress problems are accumulated, not designed: a plugin added two years ago, a theme update that shifted spacing, a contact form nobody has submitted since launch.
A roast gives you the current state of the live site with evidence, so you can decide what to remove rather than what to add.
What you get: measured facts separated from human judgement.
Start an auditWhat we check
Plugin and script load
We list the heaviest third-party requests and how much they delay the first meaningful paint.
Core Web Vitals
LCP, CLS and interaction latency measured on a mobile profile, reported as numbers you can re-check yourself.
Theme accessibility
Contrast ratios, focus states, heading order and form labels — the failures that also hurt ordinary users.
Contact and lead forms
Testers submit them. If the mail never arrives or the success message lies, you find out from the report.
Content hygiene
Broken internal links, duplicate titles, orphan pages and stale year references that make the site look abandoned.
Typical findings
- Slider plugin adding several hundred kilobytes for one hero image.
- Cookie banner blocking the page on mobile with no reachable accept button.
- Contact form delivering to an inbox nobody owns anymore.
- Layout shift from late-loading ads pushing the CTA off screen.
Questions
Do you need admin access?
No. The audit works from the public URL, which is also what search engines and visitors see.
Will you tell me which plugins to remove?
We report which requests cost the most time. The mapping to plugins is usually obvious from the request source.
Is a multilingual site supported?
Yes, and testers can be asked to check a specific language version.
See also
A roast is an automated audit plus reports from real testers, with evidence attached.