Adobe Commerce Code Audits
Understand What’s Really Happening Behind the Scenes
Adobe Commerce and Magento Open Source are powerful eCommerce platforms. Customizations, extensions, themes, and data structures can all impact the way your customers experience your site. If you want reassurance that your site was built correctly, or you are looking to get your Adobe Commerce site back on track, a Code Audit and Best Practices Review may be just what you need.
Why Do I Need a Code Audit?
Here are a few symptoms that may indicate you could use an audit:
- Your site is running slowly
- Your site crashes during high traffic
- Poor attribute design
- You have concerns about security
- The theme doesn’t work the way you want it to
- It takes too long to load a cart
What We Do
During a Code Audit and Best Practices Review, we take the time to deep dive in to the implementation of your Adobe Commerce (or Magento Open Source) application.
- We also review how the custom features were implemented, along with any extensions installed.
- We look at configurations to make sure you’re utilizing the application according to best practices.
- We review how your catalog, customer, and product data are structured.
- And finally, we take a look under the hood at the system architecture, database, and theme implementations.
At the end of this project you’ll receive a comprehensive report of our findings. We provide a list of prioritized recommendations and issues to begin tackling. Human Element can then help you remediate these issues or provide guidance on next steps.
What You Get
The following items are included in an audit:
We’ll provide a summary of our findings along with key recommendations for next steps. This area is a summation of everything following in the report.
To start, we take a look at your general setup and application settings. Things like your server specs, Adobe Commerce/Magento Open Source application, load times, cache status, and PHP configuration settings. This tells us where there may be some infrastructure opportunities.
Extensions are an important part of any Magento build. We deep dive and provide a listing of all extensions currently installed on your site. This allows us to see where there might be some redundancies or even vulnerabilities. We also take a look at the current versions of the modules and determine what is out of date or may be modified contrary to best practices.
Overrides are areas where native Adobe Commerce / Magento Open Source functionality has been overwritten. Overrides are not necessarily a bad thing, but not all overrides are created equal. Some can cause problems or are unnecessary.
It’s important to understand what themes are installed on the site currently. We’ve seen scenarios where there are over a dozen themes installed because the client was trying on different looks. However, cleanup of those themes is really important. This also helps us understand where the theme may have added functionality or created an override.
There are different types of errors that we can track on and provide some insight into. We can provide you with an idea of how many errors we’re seeing in the AC error report, AC exceptions, PHP server errors and custom code warnings.
Finally, we provide an in-depth audit of the code starting with the back-end code. This is where we will detail bugs, errors, and issues found and assign them a priority rating. We then look at the theme as well as a general data and config audit.
Frequently Asked Questions
An Adobe Commerce code audit is a comprehensive analysis of your Adobe Commerce or Magento Open Source application — covering source code, extensions, themes, configurations, and data structures. The audit evaluates three key areas: code maturity (does the code follow best practices?), maintainability (can it be easily updated?), and security (does it protect you?). At the end, you receive a prioritized report of findings and recommendations. Learn more about why a code audit is critical for your site.
There are several symptoms that indicate your site could benefit from an audit: slow page loads, crashes during high traffic, a cart that takes too long to load, concerns about security, or a theme that doesn’t work the way you expect. More broadly, any eCommerce site that hasn’t had a code audit in a year should consider one — especially if you’ve added extensions, changed developers, or haven’t kept up with critical Adobe Commerce security updates. An audit gives you a clear picture of your site’s health and a roadmap to fix what matters most.
The code audit report covers several areas: an overview with key takeaways and recommendations, a general review of your server specs, load times, cache status, and PHP configuration, a deep dive into all third-party extensions (identifying redundancies, vulnerabilities, and outdated modules), an analysis of code overrides, a review of installed themes, an error report covering Adobe Commerce exceptions, PHP server errors, and custom code warnings, and finally an in-depth audit of back-end code, theme code, and data/config structure. Each issue is assigned a priority rating so you know where to focus first.
Yes. After delivering the audit report, Human Element can help you remediate the issues identified — or provide guidance if your internal team wants to handle the fixes. Many clients pair the audit with our eCommerce support and maintenance services for ongoing improvements. Whether it’s patching security vulnerabilities, cleaning up unused extensions, optimizing performance, or restructuring code for better maintainability, our certified Adobe Commerce team can take it from diagnosis to resolution.
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