Control and Care
Monitoring is like an audit broken into parts — I check all the same points, plus additional ones:
collecting statistics, tracking parameters, ensuring functionality, providing constant consultations, and quickly responding to problems.
Even if everything is fine with your site, monitoring will still pay off.
It's great to have someone constantly watching your site and thinking about improving its performance.
Starting Cost of Working on Your Website
To start fixing errors, you would first need to spend at least $3,000 on an audit.
The monthly monitoring rate starts at $520.
So for the price of an audit, you can get 5 months of monitoring.
Try one month of monitoring and evaluate the work, service, and comfort.
Speed of Starting Work on the Website
An audit takes about a month, and only then does the actual error correction begin.
With a backlog and a difficult site, it sometimes took up to 3 months.
After subscribing to the monitoring service, you will almost immediately receive the first recommendations and start improving your site.
Relevance and Freshness of Data
Audit data becomes outdated not only over time but also immediately after any changes on the site
(moving to new hosting, updating the engine or plugins, changing the design, etc.).
Fixing one error can affect other metrics,
and if the developer is inexperienced, it can lead to new errors that are not even in the audit.
Audit data becomes outdated after about a quarter of the work is done. By the time half the work is done, it's already time for a new audit.
This is not cost-effective for you.
With monitoring, checks are done continuously, and you always have the freshest data and current optimization recommendations at your fingertips.
New errors are immediately noticeable.
Prices and Parameters
I wanted to compare prices, but these are different services.
On one hand, an audit is more expensive, but over a longer period, monitoring costs more.
Therefore, it's appropriate to compare the service composition, and here again, the audit falls short.
There is not a single aspect in the audit that is missing from the monitoring service.
The audit focused on the internal workings of the site, while monitoring focuses on traffic statistics and conversions..
The cost of an audit is equivalent to 3-5 months of monitoring.
In 5 months, I will definitely be able to check everything, but I won't detail everything in reports and recommendations — the focus will be only on the most important aspects.