Article: Should your site happen to crash without warning, it would be disastrous to lose all of the data and coding that you’ve worked hard to put together. Backing up your website will allow you to restore the most recent version of the site. Back up the site at least once a month, or whenever edits to the page are made.  Even if the company which hosts your site regularly backs up your site, it’s still smart to back up the site yourself, too. To ensure that you don’t lose website data, you could keep a copy backed up on your computer and another copy saved to a removable disk or external hard drive. To ensure that you find out as soon as your site goes down, download a program like SiteUp. SiteUp is a piece of freeware which runs in the background on your computer. SiteUp and freeware like it will monitor your site and inform you if it a server crashes or the site becomes otherwise unreachable. If the site is down for long, you risk losing or confusing potential clients or turning away curious internet browsers. Once you’ve been informed that your site is down, you can get the site back up and running as soon as possible. Web developers and programmers can become so close to the websites they create that obvious mistakes can go unnoticed. Look at every page with a detailed eye to confirm that content displays correctly. Click through every link on the site to ensure that:  All links work. All links direct the user to the correct page. All images load correctly. Images load correctly on mobile devices. The website looks good and functions when viewed on very large or very small monitors. Over time, the download speed of your website can fluctuate and slow down. You can use an online tool like Google Pagespeed Insights or GTMetrix to ensure that the speed is optimized and the site runs quickly. Both of these sites allow you to type in your website’s URL and will analyze its speed and performance. Keeping your site running quickly will also help the site place higher in search engine results. This, in turn, will increase the visibility of the site.

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Back up your website. Download a program that notifies you if your website is down. Click through your own website. Test the speed of your website.