What is Web Site Maintenance

Website maintenance is the process of keeping a website up and running securely and efficiently.  Some basic site maintenance tasks include:

• Backing up your website
• Keeping your site secure
• Monitoring your site for down time
• Testing site speed and performance
• Analyzing reader traffic
• Optimizing pages for search engines

WordPress Maintenance

WordPress maintenance consists of the above list with some extra steps that are needed due to WordPress being a CMS.  These extra steps include:

• Keeping your WordPress version up to date
• Keeping all themes and plugins up to date
• Regularly optimizing the database