Performance, Security & Maintenance
Keep the Site Fast, Secure, and Online
Almost every website security incident we are called about has the same shape. Nobody attacked the business specifically. An automated scanner found a known vulnerability in a component that had a patch available for months, and the site was compromised because nobody was watching.
Maintenance is the least interesting line on a proposal and the one that most reliably prevents a bad quarter. It is also the difference between an incident that costs an afternoon and one that costs a rebuild, a disclosure, and the customers who saw the warning page.
Speed belongs in the same conversation. Sites get slow the same way they get vulnerable — one unreviewed addition at a time — and a slow site loses visitors on a phone in a parking lot just as surely as a hacked one loses their trust. Core Web Vitals are also a Google ranking input.
We keep sites and applications fast, patched, and running for businesses across Los Angeles, the San Gabriel Valley, the Inland Empire, and Orange County — including ones we did not originally build.
What Performance, Security & Maintenance includes
Performance measured, then fixed in order of return
Lab tests plus field data from real visitors, because the field data is the one Google uses. The wins are rarely exotic: images shipped at ten times the weight they need, JavaScript for pages the visitor never opens, and caching that was never configured. Each fix is measured after it lands, and the ones that do not show up in the numbers are reverted.
Dependencies patched on a schedule
Frameworks, libraries, plugins, and server packages reviewed and updated on a regular cadence, with security advisories tracked continuously and urgent fixes applied out of band. Applied on staging first, so an update never takes production down.
Backups that have been restored
Automated, off-site, retained against how much data you could afford to lose — and periodically restored to prove they work. A backup nobody has restored is an assumption.
Monitoring that reaches a person
Uptime checks, SSL certificate expiry, form-submission failures, and error rates. Finding out your contact form has been silently failing for three weeks because a customer mentioned it is a preventable and expensive way to learn.
Hardening the common entry points
Enforced HTTPS, security headers, sensible admin access, rate limiting, and bot and spam controls on public forms. Most compromises come through a small number of well-known doors.
Compliance kept current
Cookie consent and CCPA obligations, privacy policy accuracy as your tooling changes, and accessibility checks as content is added. These drift out of compliance quietly whenever somebody adds a new tracking script.
How the work runs
- STEP 1
Assess the current state
What is running, what is out of date, what is exposed, how fast it is on a real phone, and whether backups exist and work. You get a written picture including anything urgent.
- STEP 2
Fix what is urgent
Known vulnerabilities, missing backups, and expiring certificates come first, before any routine cadence begins.
- STEP 3
Run the ongoing cycle
Scheduled patching, monitoring, backup verification, and performance budgets so speed gains survive the next round of content changes, with a short report each month covering what changed and what needs a decision from you.
- STEP 4
Respond when something breaks
A defined contact path and a response commitment, so an incident does not begin with working out who to call.
What we build with
- Core Web Vitals
- Image optimisation
- HTTP caching & CDN
- Dependency patching
- Automated backups
- Uptime monitoring
- SSL & security headers
- WAF & rate limiting
- CCPA & consent
- Accessibility checks
- Incident response
Performance, Security & Maintenance: common questions
Do you maintain sites you did not build?
Yes, and it is a large part of this work. We start with an assessment so you know what you are actually running, fix anything urgent, then move to a regular cadence. No rebuild is required to get onto maintenance.
Our site has never been hacked. Do we really need this?
Nearly every business we help after an incident would have said the same the week before. Compromises are found by automated scanners, not chosen by hand, and the vulnerabilities they exploit usually had patches available well in advance.
What is actually included each month?
Dependency and security updates applied and verified, backup verification, uptime and error monitoring, small content or copy changes, and a written summary. Larger changes are quoted separately so the monthly figure stays predictable.
How much faster can our site realistically get?
It depends on where it is starting. Sites that have never had performance work commonly cut load time by half or better, because the first fixes are usually oversized images and missing caching. We measure first and tell you the realistic range before you commit, and most of this work does not require a rebuild.
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