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    Website Maintenance Services That Keep Sites Fast

    Our website maintenance services keep your site fast, secure and up to date every month. We handle updates, backups, security monitoring and speed fixes, so your website keeps ranking, converting and working while you run the business.

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    Website Maintenance & Care Plans · Plans from $149/month, cancel anytime.

    Trusted by over 1,500 leading brands

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    • NSAR
    • Whistleblower Partners
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    Is This Right for You?

    Who Our Website Support and Maintenance Is For

    • Small Business Websites

      Small business website maintenance services for owners who would rather not learn plugin updates. If you need affordable website maintenance services or affordable website support, Essential Care covers the basics properly: real backups, real updates and a real person to email. It's website support for small business owners, without paying for hours you won't use.

    • Marketing Teams

      Business website support and business website maintenance for teams that publish often. Our website support and maintenance services take the technical upkeep and the edit queue off your hands, and your marketers keep shipping without waiting on a developer or breaking the site.

    • Enterprise and Multi-Site Organizations

      Enterprise website maintenance with custom website maintenance services: agreed update windows, change logs your IT team can audit, and Core Web Vitals tracked across every property.

    • Digital Agencies

      Website support for digital agencies that build sites but don't want to run a support desk. We handle updates, backups and speed upkeep on the client sites you choose.

    Expertise

    Platforms Our Website Maintenance Team Supports

    • WordPress

      Plugin, theme and core updates, page builder sites and multisite networks. See our WordPress support services for the full plan details.

      • Gutenberg
      • Elementor
      • Multisite

    • WooCommerce

      Store-safe updates, checkout testing and database cleanup through our WooCommerce maintenance service.

      • Checkout
      • Payments
      • Extensions

    • Hosted Platforms

      Shopify, Webflow, Squarespace, Wix and BigCommerce handle the server, but apps, scripts, content and speed still need looking after.

      • Shopify
      • Webflow
      • Squarespace

    • Custom and Headless Sites

      Website maintenance solutions for custom frameworks and headless frontends: dependency updates, build checks and performance monitoring.

      • React
      • Next.js
      • Custom CMS

    The Problem

    What Happens When Nobody Maintains Your Website?

    Sites slow down, break and get hacked when updates pile up and nobody is watching. These are the problems we see most often when a business finally hands over its website maintenance support.

    1. Outdated Plugins, Themes and Core

      Skipped updates stack up until one big update breaks the layout, a form or the checkout. Updating little and often, with testing, is how professional website maintenance services avoid that.

    2. Security Holes and Downtime

      Most hacked sites run old software with known vulnerabilities. Without monitoring, you find out when a customer emails you, or when Google flags the site.

    3. Speed That Creeps Back

      New images, tracking tags and plugins add weight every month. A site that passed Core Web Vitals last year can fail today, and your rankings and conversions slip with it.

      How to audit your site's performance

    4. Nobody to Call When It Breaks

      The original developer has moved on and the hosting company only covers the server. You need website maintenance help from someone who knows your site and answers quickly.

    The Data

    Why Website Maintenance and Optimization Pay Off

    Speed is the part of website maintenance support services most providers skip, and it is the part that quietly costs you visitors, rankings and sales.

    How It Works

    Web Maintenance Services Included in Every Care Plan

    These website maintenance and support services come with every plan. Higher tiers add more developer hours, faster response times and deeper Core Web Vitals work.

    • Updates Tested on Staging

      We apply core, plugin, app and theme updates on a staging copy first, check key pages and forms, then push to live. If an update causes trouble, we roll it back before you notice.

    • Daily Backups and Fast Restores

      Automated daily backups stored off-site, separate from your host, with 30 days of history. If anything goes wrong, we restore a clean copy and tell you what happened.

    • Security and Uptime Monitoring

      Uptime checks run around the clock, with malware scans, login protection and SSL monitoring alongside them. Alerts come to us first, so problems get fixed rather than forwarded.

    • Speed and Core Web Vitals Upkeep

      This is where our website maintenance and optimization goes further than most. We monitor speed every month, catch regressions from new content or plugins, and fix them using the same methods as our speed optimization services.

    • Edits, Fixes and Small Builds

      Every plan includes a website support service with developer time for content changes, new sections, broken layouts and plugin swaps. Requests go into one support queue and are handled by website support specialists who know your site.

    • SEO Health Checks

      Website maintenance SEO checks catch broken links, missing redirects, accidental noindex tags and sitemap errors before they hurt your rankings.

    The Process

    How Does Ongoing Website Maintenance Work?

    Ongoing website maintenance runs as a monthly cycle: back up, update on staging, verify, monitor and report. Onboarding takes about a week.

    1. Onboarding and Baseline Audit

      Week 1

      We take a full backup, record your current speed and Core Web Vitals, list every plugin, app and integration, and flag anything outdated or risky. You get the findings before we change anything.

    2. Monitoring and Backup Setup

      Week 1

      We connect uptime, security and speed monitoring, set up off-site backups and create a staging copy for testing updates.

    3. Monthly Update Cycle

      Monthly

      Updates are tested on staging, checked against your key pages and forms, then deployed. Growth and Priority Care sites get this weekly.

    4. Speed, Security and Support

      Ongoing

      Between update cycles we watch alerts, fix speed regressions and work through your support queue within your plan's response time.

    5. Monthly Report and Review

      Monthly

      Each month you get a short report: updates applied, backups taken, uptime, security events, speed trends and the tasks we completed.

    Proof

    Speed Results Behind Our Care Plans

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    Therapevo website
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    Therapevo

    Passed Core Web Vitals and improved PageSpeed score from 32 to 96.

    Desktop LCP
    0.8s to 1.3s
    Desktop TBT
    0ms to 10ms
    Desktop SI
    0.7s to 0.4s
    Mobile FCP
    2.0s to 1.2s
    View Case Study : Therapevo

    Pricing

    Monthly Website Maintenance Packages and Pricing

    Three website support plans, all month-to-month with no lock-in, from basic upkeep to managed website maintenance plans for busy sites. Each one includes the speed monitoring from our ongoing speed support plans, plus the updates, backups and fixes a site needs to stay healthy. Need a one-time speed fix first? See speed optimization pricing.

    • Essential Care

      Basic website maintenance for small business sites that need to stay updated, backed up and online.

      From$149/month

      Billed monthly · fixed quote after a free call

      What's included

      • Monthly core, plugin/app and theme updates
      • Daily off-site backups with 30-day retention
      • 24/7 uptime monitoring and security scanning
      • Speed monitoring with regression alerts
      • Up to 1 hour of edits or fixes per month
      • Monthly maintenance report
      • Email support
    • Most popular

      Growth Care

      Our most popular web maintenance plan for business sites that need regular changes and steady speed.

      From$299/month

      Billed monthly · fixed quote after a free call

      What's included

      • Everything in Essential Care
      • Weekly updates, tested on staging first
      • Fixes for standard speed issues: images, fonts, scripts, caching
      • Up to 3 hours of developer time per month
      • Form, link and SEO health checks
      • Next-business-day response

    • Priority Care

      Managed web maintenance for high-traffic and revenue-critical sites where every slowdown costs money.

      From$599/month

      Billed monthly · fixed quote after a free call

      What's included

      • Everything in Growth Care
      • Real User Monitoring and ongoing Core Web Vitals optimization
      • Up to 6 hours of developer time per month
      • Same-business-day response for critical issues
      • Checkout and conversion path testing after updates
      • Quarterly performance and roadmap review
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    Not sure which plan fits? Speak with a specialist and we'll recommend one.

    Prices are starting points. We confirm a fixed quote after a free call, before any work starts. See full pricing

    Deliverables

    What Your Website Care Plan Includes Each Month

    Your website care plan comes with clear records, so you always know what was done, when and why.

    1. Monthly Maintenance Report

      A plain-English summary of updates, backups, uptime, security events and speed trends.

    2. Update and Change Log

      Every update and change recorded with dates, versions and notes, so your team can audit the work.

    3. Off-Site Backup Archive

      Daily backups held separately from your host, ready to restore at any time.

    4. Uptime and Security Alerts

      Downtime, malware and SSL issues are caught by monitoring and handled by our team.

    5. Speed and Core Web Vitals Tracking

      Monthly LCP, INP and CLS tracking with regression fixes, plus real-user data on Priority Care.

    6. Support Queue Access

      One place to send requests, with your monthly hours tracked like a small web maintenance retainer.

    FAQ

    Website Maintenance Services FAQ

    Still unsure? and we'll look at your site.

    Ready to Hand Off Your Website Maintenance?

    Book a free call and we'll recommend the right care plan for your site. Plans from $149 a month, no lock-in.