The 10-Minute Website Health Check Every Owner Should Do

Your website worked when it launched. Does it still?

Websites rot silently: plugins fall behind, pages slow down, forms break, Google loses interest. Here are eight checks — each under two minutes, none of them technical. Grab your phone and your laptop.

1. The phone test (2 min)

Open your site on your phone, on mobile data (not Wi-Fi). Count seconds until you can read and tap. More than 4–5 seconds? You are losing roughly half your visitors before they see anything.

2. The speed score (2 min)

Search “PageSpeed Insights”, enter your homepage URL. Look at the mobile score. 90+ excellent · 60–89 needs work · under 50, this is your first priority.

3. The lock icon (30 sec)

Does the browser show a padlock (HTTPS)? A “Not secure” warning next to your business name destroys trust instantly — and Google demotes it.

4. The Google search test (1 min)

Search your business name. Do you appear first? Is the title/description under your link something a human would click — or raw jargon like “Home | site”? Then search what a customer would type (e.g. “dermatologist in Salt Lake”) and see if you exist at all.

5. The contact test (2 min)

Fill your own contact form. Did the message arrive? Call the number on the site. Tap the WhatsApp button. You would be amazed how many businesses have had a dead form for months.

6. The stale-content scan (1 min)

Any mention of 2023 prices, past events advertised as upcoming, “coming soon” pages that never came? Stale content tells visitors nobody is home.

7. The one-CTA check (1 min)

Open your homepage and ask: what is the ONE thing I want a visitor to do — and is there an obvious button for it above the fold? If a stranger cannot answer in five seconds, neither can your customers.

8. The backup question (30 sec)

Do you know — not hope, know — that a copy of your website exists somewhere, and who can restore it? If the answer is “my old developer maybe”, that is a business risk, not a technical detail.

Scoring

7–8 passes: healthy, review quarterly. 4–6: fixable in a weekend — start with speed and the contact test. 0–3: your website is actively costing you money; fix it or get help this month.

Failed a check and not sure how bad it is? Bring your list to a quick consult — 20 minutes, ₹500, adjusted fully against any project.