Website health, explained clearly

Understand the condition of your website.

A Layer Seven Website Health Report gives you an independent view of your public homepage, explains what was observed, and helps you decide what deserves attention. MAPS keeps that evidence organized across Mobile, Accessibility, Performance, and Security.

  • CISSP-led expertise
  • OWASP & WCAG-informed
  • Business-first guidance
  • Public-site focus

MAPS framework

Four categories, one clear decision-making view.

MAPS organizes observed homepage conditions into four categories so strengths and concerns are easier to understand and prioritize.

Mobile

Layout, touch targets, and interaction patterns assessed against the experience a phone user actually gets — not a desktop approximation.

Accessibility

Barriers that can prevent people with different needs from reading, navigating, or using the homepage, with findings mapped to WCAG where applicable.

Performance

Slow, unstable, or oversized experiences that may cause visitors to leave before the homepage becomes useful.

Security

Visible weaknesses and missing protections on the public homepage that may affect visitor confidence, mapped to OWASP where applicable.

Practical approach

Technical evidence translated into business decisions.

A Website Health Report keeps the work focused on observed homepage conditions, why they may matter, and the next useful decision.

1. Observe the public experience

Start with the website behavior customers and browsers can see without private access or credentials.

2. Explain the consequence

Connect technical signals to customer trust, usability, performance, and visible security posture.

3. Clarify the next step

Give decision-makers and technical teams enough context to make a focused, proportionate decision.

Practitioner-led

Decades of real-world security and systems experience.

L7S combines professional judgment with structured evidence so you receive website-specific context and decision support. More about us.

Lisa Cloutier

MEng, Stevens Institute — Data & Systems

Lisa brings more than 20 years of data engineering and systems architecture experience focused on turning complex metrics into clear, actionable decisions.

Joe Faulkner

CISSP — Lead Assessor

Joe has spent decades securing web applications in high-stakes environments, including legal e-filing systems used by courts across the United States. He created the MAPS validator and leads L7S security and accessibility work.

Talk with L7S

Have a question about your website?

Share the public website and the decision you are trying to make. We will tell you whether the L7S approach fits the problem.