Our Website Was Fine Last Year, Why Is It Slow and Glitchy Now?
A business hasn't changed anything about its website in a long time, and yet it's gotten slower, a form stopped working, or a page throws an error that wasn't there before.
What you might notice
Nothing was intentionally changed, but load times have crept up, a plugin or a piece of software behind the scenes is out of date, and small things keep breaking one at a time.
What's actually going on
A website isn't a one-time purchase, the software behind it, security patches, plugins, and outside services it depends on all keep moving even when the business doesn't touch a thing. Left alone long enough, that drift shows up as exactly this: a slow, glitchy site that used to work fine.
Why it matters
Small, unaddressed issues tend to compound, a slow site loses visitors and rank, and a neglected one becomes a bigger, more expensive fix the longer it's left alone.
What the fix usually involves
Regular maintenance, backups, updates, and catching small breaks before they compound, keeps a site running the way it did on day one, without ever needing a dramatic rebuild.