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Websites differ in a lot of ways and for the website maintenance team, classifying websites properly will help them maintain it efficiently.  There are three parameters to consider when classifying websites and these are:

Size – Website size represents the total man-hours needed to maintain the site.

Complexity – A website’s complexity is based on how the site is developed and the technologies and plug-ins that was used to create it.

Levels of Activity – The activity is measured by the amount traffic the site receives.

In order to determine whether you need a team of website maintenance specialists, you need to know how your website’s classification. And to do that we need to explain the parameters even further. But first we have to be well acquainted with the fields of work.

The Website Management Team includes:

v  Team Leader

  • Publishing Specialist of Editor and the Quality Assurance Specialist
    • Feedback Monitoring Specialists and the Website Performance Specialist
      • Infrastructure Monitoring Specialist and the Change Control Specialists

The number of people for each function mentioned depends on the Scale of the website.  A small scale website may only be manned by two people doing several tasks at once.

Website Size

As mentioned, the size of the website depends on the total hours needed to maintain the website’s over-all health.

v  Small Website – Hours spent to create content is about 1,500 to 4,000 hours per year or 125 to 350 hours per month.  There should be one or two people tasked to handle content publishing and quality assurance.

v  Medium Website – 4,000 to 10,000 hours a year or 350 to 850 hours a month would be dedicated to content and a minimum of 2 to 3 people working on quality assurance and publishing.

v  Large website – is any website that spends more than 10,000 hours a year on content and more than 3 people working on publishing and quality assurance.

 

Website Complexity

v  Basic Website

If it’s a simple informative brochure type website with only a few texts and images then it’s your basic website, some have as little as two pages.  Over all website maintenance for this site is easy.

v  Dynamic Website

A dynamic website has a stored content database and what appears on the screen is based on the needs and specification of the visitor or user.

v  Transactional Website

This type is a business or e-commerce site and it requires a lot of website maintenance and monitoring on a daily basis.

Website Activity

This may be classified as Quiet with zero to 100,000 page impressions a month, Intermediate if the page impressions averages somewhere between 100,000 to a million a month and Busy if it gains a constant one million a month and over.

A good website maintenance service will be able to classify your website within these parameters and propose an efficient website maintenance team.