Site Decay

Websites decay quietly. We catch it early.

A free check-up for your business website: security warnings, hacking, outages, phone-friendliness and outdated software, explained in plain English.

Takes about 15 seconds. No signup needed.

Check-upsmithfamilydental.com
  • Website loads

    Your homepage loads.

    Healthy
  • Security certificate

    Browsers show a “Not Secure” warning: it expired on May 5, 2023.

    Problem
  • Works on phones

    Not built for phones. They show a shrunken desktop page.

    Problem
  • WordPress version

    Running 6.2; the current release is 7.1.

    Needs attention
  • Who maintains it

    The web designer credited in your footer is no longer in business.

    Needs attention

What the check-up looks at

The problems that cost small businesses customers without anyone noticing.

  • Security certificate. Whether browsers show visitors a “Not Secure” warning, and when yours expires.
  • Hacked or hijacked. Spam ads injected into your pages, or your address sending visitors to someone else’s site.
  • Online at all. Whether your homepage loads, or shows an error, a parked page or a “coming soon” sign.
  • Works on phones. Whether your site fits a phone screen, or shows a shrunken desktop page.
  • Your Google listing. Whether your homepage title and description sell your business, or just say “Home”.
  • Out-of-date software. Old WordPress versions are how most small-business sites get hacked.
  • Email. Whether your domain can actually receive customer emails.
  • Who maintains it. Whether the company that built your site still exists.

From check-up to care

Start free. Only pay if you want us to fix things.

Free

One-time check-up

Run it any time, on any site. A plain-English report on what’s healthy and what isn’t.

Free

Weekly check-up

We re-check your site every week and email you a short report, plus an alert the day something serious breaks.

Free

Website tools

Inspect a security certificate or check a domain’s email setup, with plain-English answers.

Open the tools

How common is site decay?

From our continuous scan of business websites.

117,212,848live websites checked
15%still have no secure (https) version
22%haven’t updated their footer since 2022 or earlier

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