What is Web Maintenance?

Do you know how you regularly check your car for leaks and damages? Well, website maintenance is the process of checking to see whether your website is performing well. It’s about keeping up with security updates, encouraging traffic growth, and making sure Google is happy. In fact, website maintenance services are an essential ingredient for engaging and retaining your customers.

We all know the difficulty when dealing with websites. To ensure your website is in a healthy and relevant condition, you need to perform regular check-ups. Not once a year, not twice a year. We’re talking about regular monitoring that will help you keep your business running smoothly and customers enjoying their user experience.

Do you know how often you need to remove spam comments from posts? Weekly! Or how often you should renew your domain name? Annually! As soon as your website is up and running, it’s time to start taking care of the most basic and crucial web maintenance tasks. We’ve organized these services by separate tasks and by how often you should perform them.

Annual tasks

Renew your website domain name (if hosted by us). Consider updating your website design. Review each page of the site to make sure its content is accurate. Find your best-performing pages / blogs and consider updating them (if hosted by Homezim) you will get weekly performance stats generated by our cPanel.

Quarterly tasks

Review your website and check if there’s room for improvement. Update your web graphics and photos. Check your website content and make sure it’s up-to-date. Update your meta descriptions and meta titles (where necessary). Make sure that the website is mobile-friendly and it displays nicely on all browsers. Test and update popups, forms, and calls to action. Check to see if anything needs to be changed or updated with your advertising and marketing campaigns. Restore the most recent backup to check your backup health.

Monthly tasks

Test your website loading speed. If it takes more than three seconds to load, you should talk to your web developer. Analyze your security scans and if there are any issues, make sure they’re resolved. Analyze website statistics. Check your local search visibility. Run monthly website backups.

Weekly tasks

Check your website for 404 errors and if there are any, fix or 301 redirect them. Update your core plugins and website software. Check for broken links.