Case study · Australia

Australian state-government business programme

Flagship WebQem project · Digital Health Checks for small businesses

VerdictThe project produced a consistent, evidence-based digital review that each business could act on.

GovernmentSEO Lead

  • 5

    focus areas in every Digital Review: analytics, security and speed, website and customer experience, sales and marketing channels, technology

  • 1

    standard deck for each participating business, with a recommendations table

  • Nearly 1,000

    websites reviewed through WebQem

01

The brief

A flagship WebQem project I worked on: Digital Health Checks for small businesses in an Australian state-government export and investment programme.

WebQem signed the agreement with the programme’s government agency on 18 April 2023. Each participating business received a structured Digital Review deck with findings and recommendations.

Website strategies for nearly 1,000 websites via WebQem.

02

How I approached it

  • Per participant, a standard deck: business brief (market, products, competitors), five focus areas (analytics; security and site speed; website review and customer experience; sales and marketing channels; technology), a digital-adoption-curve position and a recommendations table.
  • Analytics and KPI findings: GA4/GTM property set-up, event tracking, goals, filters and e-commerce tracking, each with an observation, recommendation and status.
  • Site-speed review from Lighthouse (for example a 25/100 mobile performance score with a 20.1 s Largest Contentful Paint, captured 23 Aug 2023), with six fixes.
  • Security, website/UX, organic and paid social, and competitor SEO-value comparisons.
  • A programme survey questions sheet (Aug 2023) used to scope each review.
  • Sample decks on file: a UK-market beverage business (Aug 2023) and a Singapore-market distillery (Mar 2024).
03

What I did

How I solved it: A repeatable five-area health check for each business

  • Started from each participant’s business plan and target market, and benchmarked them against named competitors.
  • Ran the same five-area health check on every business, so findings were comparable and quick to deliver.
  • Turned each finding into a recommendation with a traffic-light status, so owners could see what to fix first.
  • Delivered Digital Review / Digital Health Check decks for programme participants.
04

The numbers

Work sample: three slides from a programme Digital Health Check deck (PowerPoint), Aug 2023: approach, analytics and KPI findings, site-speed recommendations. Participant, programme and competitor names redacted.
Work sample: three slides from a programme Digital Health Check deck (PowerPoint), Aug 2023: approach, analytics and KPI findings, site-speed recommendations. Participant, programme and competitor names redacted.

My verdict

The project produced a consistent, evidence-based digital review that each business could act on.

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