Web Development

Yes. WordPress core is well maintained. Most problems come from outdated or poorly built plugins, weak passwords and cheap hosting, all of which a good maintenance routine prevents.

Check for updates weekly. Apply security updates promptly, and test major plugin or theme updates on a staging copy first so nothing breaks on the live site.

It does not have to. Rankings drop when URLs change without redirects, when ranking content is removed or when the new site is slower. A planned migration with a full redirect map usually keeps rankings stable and often improves them.

Small fluctuations for a few weeks are normal while Google recrawls the site. If redirects and content are right, rankings typically settle within weeks. Sustained drops point to a technical problem worth investigating.

An unclear first screen. If a visitor cannot tell what you offer, who it is for and what to do next within a few seconds, most will leave regardless of how good the rest of the page is.

Watch session recordings, check where people drop off in analytics, test your forms on a phone and ask a few real customers to complete a task while you watch. Patterns appear quickly.

Usually a combination of cheap hosting, no caching, large images, many plugins, a heavy theme or page builder and third-party scripts such as chat widgets and trackers.

Yes. Page caching serves ready-made pages instead of building each one on every visit, which often makes the biggest single difference on WordPress.