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What Website Maintenance Actually Involves
A website is not a deliverable you receive once. Left alone for a year, it gets slower, less secure, and quietly wrong.
Clients are often surprised that a finished site needs ongoing attention. Here is what that attention is actually spent on.
Security and updates
Frameworks, plugins and server packages ship patches. Applying them is unglamorous and it is the single highest-value thing on this list.
Backups you have actually tested
An untested backup is a hope. Restore one periodically and confirm it works.
Content that goes stale
Old prices, staff who left, links to pages that no longer exist. This is the damage visitors actually notice.
Performance
Uncompressed images creep in over time and are usually the reason a once-fast site is now slow on mobile data.
Watching the right numbers
Uptime, form submissions arriving, Search Console errors. Most broken contact forms are discovered by accident, months later.
