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One Week In: 4,300 Views, Four Proposals, 39 Changes
On Monday I announced LFW on LinkedIn. By Friday the post had been seen 4,300 times, four proposals were out, and the site had changed 39 times. A short record of week one, with thanks.
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Your Web Host Is Not Your Web Team
Good hosting is essential, but it is only one layer of website operations. Here is how to evaluate a managed WordPress host, what the host should own, and what still needs a web team.
What Website Management Actually Includes
Website management is an operating relationship, not a plugin update package. These are the responsibilities, boundaries, and response expectations a useful agreement should make clear.
Your Website Monitor Should Notice More Than Downtime
Uptime is only the first website check. Useful monitoring should detect changes in security policy, redirects, certificates, performance, and the pages people depend on.
The Close Band We Built Sixty Times
Every selling page on this site ends with the same dark band: a heading, a sentence, two buttons. We found it built by hand on sixty pages, with the button spacing declared in fifty-five separate places. One page had lost it.
What the free audit finds
The Four Files Nobody Links To
Every website has four plain-text files no visitor ever sees: robots.txt, sitemap.xml, security.txt, and llms.txt. Search engines, security scanners, and AI agents read them on every visit.
Our Hero Image Was Disappearing on iPhones. An Ad Blocker Was Hiding It.
For weeks the hero on three of our own pages vanished for a second and a half on iPhones, on a cold load only. Nothing reproduced it in a lab.
What the free audit finds
Why the Page Jumps While It Loads
What layout shift is and why it registers as brokenness, the four causes behind nearly every case (images without dimensions, embeds without reserved space, fonts swapping, banners injected late), and the exact fixes, including where WordPress already knows every image's width and height.
What the free audit finds
Phones Download Your Desktop Images
Why a 2.6 MB hero reaches a phone that needs 33 KB, how srcset and sizes let the browser choose, when you actually need the picture element, what WebP buys you, and where WordPress themes quietly undo the work it already does for you.