{"id":12119,"date":"2017-09-27T14:19:11","date_gmt":"2017-09-27T14:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.process.st\/templates\/monthly-website-maintenance\/"},"modified":"2024-02-28T20:45:04","modified_gmt":"2024-02-28T20:45:04","slug":"monthly-website-maintenance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.process.st\/templates\/monthly-website-maintenance\/","title":{"rendered":"Monthly Website Maintenance Checklist"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Introduction:<\/h2>\n
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Web maintenance is essential for everybody, especially when it deal with security testing.<\/p>\n

Used in combination with our weekly, quarterly, and yearly checklists (available here<\/a>), these maintenance processes will keep your site updated, free of vulnerabilities, optimized for SEO<\/strong>, and more.<\/p>\n

In this process, we go through your search visibility, site analytics, security scans, and loading speed<\/strong>. These are vital checkups that ensure your site's marketing and user experience are top notch.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n

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Run the weekly website maintenance checklist<\/h2>\n
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This web maintenance checklist is intended to be used as part of our weekly, monthly, quarterly and yearly checklist set<\/strong>. When monthly maintenance is due, these tasks act as a supplement to be used as well as the weekly checklist.<\/p>\n

[Add a link to your organization's weekly maintenance checklist (based on this template<\/a>) here.]<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n

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Test page load speed<\/h2>\n
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Site speed is important for user experience<\/strong> and search engine ranking<\/strong> placements. A faster site is better for everyone.<\/p>\n

Slow sites can be caused by anything from shared hosting to uncompressed files. You can get simple solutions for minifying and optimizing your site's code with WordPress plugins or tutorials via Google.<\/p>\n

Site load speed tools<\/strong> are commonly available for free, and show you any optimizations you need to make within minutes.<\/p>\n

Google's PageSpeed Insights tool<\/a> gives you a piece-by-piece breakdown of your site's speed, and offers tips to optimize it.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Pingdom<\/a> provides a similar service, but takes into account the difference location makes on site speed. It lets you choose which server will access your site. In the example below, the results are returned as if a user from Melbourne had accessed it.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Review security scans and resolve any issues<\/h2>\n
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Use Gravityscan<\/a> <\/strong>(from the creators of Wordfence<\/a>) to run a scan on your site. Any issues will be highlighted straight away, for free and with no need to sign up.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Other site security tools include:<\/p>\n