If the words "audit report" make you picture indecipherable technical printouts, this is for you. A good report is written to be understood by the person paying for it — you — not just a developer.
Start with severity, not the top
Don't read a report top to bottom. Read it by importance. A well-made report ranks issues: critical, high, medium, low. Spend your attention on critical and high first. Those are the ones costing you customers right now.
Understand the three buckets
- Critical/high: fix these soon; they're actively hurting you.
- Medium: worth fixing, not an emergency.
- Low/cosmetic: nice to tidy up when you have time.
Every issue should answer three questions
A useful report tells you, for each item: what's wrong, why it matters, and how to fix it. If it only lists errors without the "why" and "how," it's a data dump, not an audit.
What to do with it
You have two paths for each fix: do it yourself if it's simple, or hand the item to your developer. Because the report spells out each fix, you can forward it directly — no translation needed.
The point
A report you can't understand is useless. The whole value is clarity: knowing what matters, why, and what to do. If a report leaves you more confused than before, it failed at its one job. Ours are written so you can act on them the same day.