Drupal Maintenance and Support
- 87% of the websites have a high or medium security risk
- 73% of the websites are running outdated
- 68% of the websites don't have a data recovery plan
- 77% of the website takes more than 10 sec to load on mobile.
- 1-sec delay reduces conversion by up to 20 %
Data is the biggest asset in the IT industry. To tackle data theft, Secured platforms are important. Today, people prioritise security over service. So to tackle this website needs to be upgraded timely. Some security patches needed to be fixed. Hence to make the website safe from the latest hacks, the best-upgraded version of the website should be there.
Even a very small error in your website can trouble the customer. This may be due to insufficient testing, miscommunication, lack of expertise, and many more. To address this issue, attention should be given to maintenance.
Staying in the latest version helps the customer to get more advanced features. For example, modern Drupal contains the multilingual feature, Content personalization, etc whereas the older version doesn’t have all these features. The latest version will provide high speed and better efficiency while providing service.
Need for Drupal Maintenance?
You probably might think, what is the need for maintenance on a website?Just like humans need regular body check-ups, the website also needs its functionality check-up. Otherwise, on some days, a website may slow down. You can also think this of as similar to your car, wherein every six months you visit a car servicing centre.
Drupal releases a new version every 6 months. Every new version has some minor up-gradation from the first one. Whenever a new version is upgraded, there will be a lot of similarities between the upgraded version and the previous version. But to tackle bugs, for security regular scheduled updates should be ensured.
How to check whether the website requires maintenance or not?
- Admin panel says there’s a need for security updates.
- The website is on the older version of Drupal.
- Drupal always asks for updates
- Super admin received an update email from the official Drupal organisation
- Site becomes slow
- Broken URLs.
- You have not updated for a very long time.
How will it improve your business?
1.It will Increase Traffic: Updating with the latest version means better SEO (Search Engine Optimisation). It will lead to a better ranking in SERP and hence will increase traffic on the platform. More traffic means more sales and hence more revenue.
2. It will enhance visitor’s experience: Using the latest technology in a platform will provide customers or its users to get enhanced visitor experience. Speed of the website will increase and this will lead to happy and satisfied customers.
3. It will provide you and your customer with better security and protection: In modern days, hacking has been a new norms. To prevent your website from unauthorised access you need to have a team which will look into all these process. But if you the user of Drupal 6 or 7 ; or are probably making your mind to migrate to Drupal 9, then you can take it as a sign of relief . The latest version means the latest security updates. It will prevent hackers from hacking your platform and stealing the control.
4. It will make your platform compatible with the latest technology: Content created by using Drupal will be compatible across all the platforms.
5. Back up facility
6. Availability of New feature
