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Care and optimization,explained.

Everything we publish about what happens to a build after launch day, which is where most of its value is either kept or quietly lost.

The questions that arrive in the quiet months, when nobody is deciding anything and the thing is slowly getting worse.

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Deciding whether to build something? The service page is the one to read. Reading around the subject? Stay here.

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Everything filed undercare and optimization.

The scope of this index

What is filed here,and what is filed elsewhere.

Questions this index answers

  • What a monthly report should contain before it is worth the time it takes to read, and what most of them contain instead.
  • What actually makes a site slow, in the order the causes matter rather than in the order they are easy to fix.
  • What ages in a build and what does not, so a budget goes to the parts that will genuinely need it.
  • What to do with the questions a site could not answer last month, which is the cheapest content plan a company will ever be handed.

Questions that live on another index

A post sits under exactly one topic. Nothing is cross filed, because a piece that appears in three places is a piece nobody can find a second time.

Where to go next

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Two doors

Two ways to start.Both end with a document you own.

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For when you want the evidence before the decision. We look at what you have against the job you want it to do, and give you a prioritised plan with the arithmetic attached. The document is yours either way.

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