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The short answer: a site does not break all at once: it accumulates small faults (a plugin not updated, a form that stopped arriving, a backup that was never tested). Half an hour a month, always in the same order, catches almost everything before a customer notices.
The list, in order
| Minutes | What to do | Where to look |
| 5 | Open the site on a phone and on a computer, and go through the main pages. Press the buttons. | In the browser. See Six accessibility checks. |
| 5 | Test the contact form: send a message and see whether it arrives. | A contact form that actually reaches your inbox. |
| 5 | Update WordPress, themes and plugins (after a backup). Delete what you do not use. | What to back up before you update. |
| 5 | Confirm recent backups exist and take one off the server. | Your own backup. |
| 3 | Check the space and usage of the account. | How to monitor your site performance in cPanel. |
| 3 | Check the dates: renewal of the domain and the service, SSL certificate. | Domain renewal. |
| 4 | Look at the numbers: visits, most-viewed pages, where they come from. | Analytics or Search Console. |
Every three to six months
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| Write down what you did, with the date, in a simple file. Six months from now, knowing what was updated and when saves hours if something goes wrong. |
| Put the routine in your calendar, on the same day every month (the first working day, for example). What is not in the calendar does not get done. |
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Do not want to do this alone? Open a ticket saying what you have and tell us what needs following up. Open a support ticket |
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SEE ALSO Ten mistakes first-time website owners make, and how to avoid each one Making and keeping your own backup, and testing that it works |
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