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A practical website maintenance checklist
A reusable monthly website maintenance checklist for small businesses: inquiries, payments, mobile usability, search visibility, content, and ownership.
A website can load correctly and still lose a customer. Review the actions people depend on, record what failed, and give each fix an owner. Start with the checks below; add the steps specific to your business.
After every important change
Follow one real customer task on a phone and a computer. Use test mode for payments and a test inbox for messages.
- Open the changed page directly, then reach it through the site navigation.
- Submit an inquiry and confirm it reaches the intended destination.
- Check confirmation and error messages, required fields, and the next step.
- For online payments or bookings, verify the recorded outcome separately from the success screen.
Every month: the path to an inquiry
Test the things that turn an interested visitor into a conversation. A decorative button or an undelivered form is a business problem even when the homepage looks fine.
- Check contact links, phone numbers, opening hours, and service descriptions.
- Complete the main inquiry on a narrow screen using the keyboard.
- Switch languages on a service page and confirm the equivalent page opens.
- Play the videos, open downloads, and look for broken or distorted images.
Every month: search and published information
Use Search Console to find the pages people are already discovering. A meaningful increase in errors deserves investigation; a single average-position number is not a business result.
- Review clicks and impressions for important services and relevant search queries.
- Inspect a changed page if Google is choosing the wrong canonical or cannot fetch it.
- Check that the sitemap lists working, canonical pages instead of previews or retired URLs.
- Review Google Business Profile details where your business is eligible for a profile.
Every quarter: ownership and recovery
Someone at the business should be able to identify the owner of the domain, the website, and the accounts used to receive inquiries. Store recovery information privately.
- Confirm who controls the domain registration and upcoming renewals.
- Check that only current, authorized people can edit the website and business accounts.
- Verify that a usable backup exists and that your provider can restore it.
- Retire obsolete integrations through their owner after confirming nothing still depends on them.
Keep a small maintenance record
For each issue, record the page, the customer action that failed, who is fixing it, and the result of checking the fix. A short record of real problems is more useful than a long report of automated scores.