15 Things to Check Each Month on Your Website

<p>Our WordPress maintenance checklist covers a list of essential things you should do religiously each month to ensure that your website runs smoothly across multiple devices. While this is a monthly list, you'll see better results if they can be performed weekly or even daily.</p> <p><strong>1. Perform a website speed audit to ensure it’s loading quickly: </strong>Page speed can affect SEO and user experience. <a href="https://gtmetrix.com/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">GTMetrix</a>, <a href="https://wpmudev.com/wp-checkup/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">WP Checkup</a>, and <a href="https://pagespeed.web.dev/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Google’s Page Insights</a> are great tools that pinpoint where your slowness could be coming from. This could be large images, a heavy homepage with lots of elements, or even a slow hosting provider.</p> <p><strong>2. Monitor your website security daily: </strong>Security is such a major concern. Run a daily test to spotlight intrusions, file changes, and malware.</p> <p><strong>3. Review Google Analytics: </strong>The best way to know how well your site is doing and what’s working is by reviewing your Analytics data.&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>4. Clear your trash: </strong>Old pages, posts, expired events and contests, obituaries, banner ads campaigns that have ended… all of this is simply taking up space and can cause your site to get slower over time.</p> <p><strong>5. Clean your media files: </strong>One of the main reasons you may run out of space on your hosting provider is because you have excess media that is no longer being used. These files add up over time.</p> <p><strong>6. Ensure images are optimized: </strong>Optimized images load faster and that helps with SEO and user experience. Ensure your authors know the value of the optimization process.</p> <p><strong>7. Check your navigation menus: </strong>Poor navigation is one of the frustrating spots for users. Check everything to ensure things are easy to find and hassle-free. Is anything missing? Be sure to check on