Launch is the start of improvement, not the finish line.
Service overview · Last updated July 22, 2026
Sites that keep performing are the ones that get regular attention. Care & Optimization keeps yours fast, current, and conversion-aware.
Website care is the ongoing engagement that keeps a site fast, secure, current, and continuously improving after launch. It combines platform maintenance, uptime and Core Web Vitals monitoring, small content and conversion improvements, and monthly reporting that ties changes to measurable outcomes. Care is a retainer, not a break-fix ticket queue.
What does a website care engagement actually deliver?
A care engagement delivers a site that stays fast and secure, content that keeps pace with the business, steady conversion improvements over time, and monthly reporting that shows exactly what changed and why. The measurable outcome is a site that gets better between quarters, not one that quietly decays until the next redesign.
- A site that stays fast and secure
- Content that keeps pace with the business
- Steady conversion improvements over time
- Actionable monthly reporting
What's included in a website care engagement?
Every care engagement includes platform and dependency maintenance, backups where applicable, uptime and issue monitoring, an agreed monthly bank of content update hours, Core Web Vitals monitoring, quarterly conversion review, landing-page improvements, analytics review, and a monthly recommendations report.
- Maintenance
- Backups (where applicable)
- Uptime / issue monitoring
- Content updates
- Core Web Vitals monitoring
- Conversion review
- Landing-page improvements
- Analytics review
- Monthly recommendations
What's explicitly not included in website care?
Care is scoped for continuous improvement, not for unbounded major projects. The following typically become their own engagement rather than being absorbed into the retainer.
- Full redesigns or major template rebuilds
- New site sections or completely new templates
- 24/7 on-call support unless separately agreed
- Emergency same-day fixes on codebases we did not build
- Paid media management
How does a website care engagement work, step by step?
Care engagements move through a repeating monthly cycle: onboard once, then monitor continuously, improve on a monthly cadence, and report at the end of every month. The first month is discovery-heavy; subsequent months are execution and measurement.
- 01
Onboard: access, baselines, priorities
- 02
Monitor: performance, uptime, analytics
- 03
Improve: content, conversion, technical
- 04
Report: what changed and what's next
What does this look like on a real project?
A SaaS company launches a new marketing site with FloPixels and rolls straight into a care engagement. They have a two-person marketing team and no in-house developer.
Post-launch, the site has strong Core Web Vitals but the marketing team wants to ship monthly landing pages for campaigns, iterate on the pricing page based on sales feedback, and keep the site technically healthy without hiring internally.
Step 1
Month 1 — Onboard
Access provisioned to the repo, CMS, analytics, and monitoring. Baselines captured: Core Web Vitals per template, top-20 pages by traffic and conversion, current conversion rate on the pricing page. Twelve-month improvement roadmap agreed with marketing.
Step 2
Months 2–4 — Landing pages and pricing iteration
Three campaign landing pages built from existing components. Pricing page tested with two variants of the tier comparison. Winning variant lifts pricing-to-contact conversion measurably. Core Web Vitals monitored on every ship.
Step 3
Months 5–12 — Continuous improvement
Monthly cadence: one landing page or template extension, one conversion experiment, one technical debt item. Monthly report shows shipped work, measured outcomes, and next-month priorities. Quarterly review sets the next quarter's roadmap with marketing leadership.
Outcome
Twelve months in, the marketing team has shipped 14 new landing pages, iterated the pricing page three times, and reduced site-wide Largest Contentful Paint by measurable amounts. Zero unplanned downtime. The next-year renewal conversation is a formality.
Questions we get about this service
Do you offer 24/7 support and emergency response?+
Not by default. Response SLAs are scoped to your engagement — a typical care retainer includes business-hours response with a same-day acknowledgement on outages. True 24/7 coverage requires a separately scoped SLA because it changes staffing, not just documentation.
Can you take over website care for a site you didn't build?+
Yes, subject to a technical review. Some codebases require refactoring before we can maintain them safely — we will tell you honestly during onboarding rather than accepting a retainer we cannot deliver against. If the codebase is unmaintainable, the honest recommendation is a rebuild, not a care contract.
What is the minimum commitment for a website care engagement?+
Three months to complete onboarding, capture baselines, and ship a first cycle of improvements you can evaluate. After that, engagements run month-to-month with a 30-day notice period. We do not require annual contracts because they misalign incentives — you should renew because the work is working.
How many hours of work are included in a care retainer?+
Every retainer includes a monthly bank of hours matched to your goals — typical ranges are 10–40 hours per month depending on scope. Unused hours roll one month, then reset. Overage is agreed in writing before we spend it; there are no surprise invoices.
Does care include SEO work?+
Care includes technical SEO monitoring — Core Web Vitals, indexation issues, structured-data validity, and correction of regressions we introduce. Ongoing keyword strategy, content briefs, and reporting on ranked terms are part of an SEO Growth Partnership engagement, which pairs naturally with care.
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