Website maintenance in Manchester

Working with Dardo from Manchester

Dardo is a three-person design studio in Bogotá, Colombia, led by its founder, Nicolás Cerón. We work with companies in Manchester remotely: there is no Dardo office in Manchester. Calls happen on video, in English or Spanish, and everything we agree goes into a written proposal.

Bogotá keeps UTC−5 all year, with no daylight saving time. Manchester is 5 hours ahead of Bogotá in January and 6 hours ahead of Bogotá in July, so a nine-to-five day in Manchester shares 2–3 working hours with a nine-to-five day in Bogotá.

A project starts with a brief through the contact form, by email to hello@dardo.studio or on WhatsApp. Nicolás replies within one business day with the questions that set the scope. The proposal that follows lists the scope, deliverables, assumptions, exclusions, payment stages, a timeline and the people doing the work, by name.

Published starting prices: Website maintenance plan from USD 79 a month. Anything beyond that is quoted by scope, with no minimum budget. Pricing explains how a quote is built.

What do website maintenance services include?

A maintenance plan covers the parts of a website that fail without warning, plus the support to fix and improve it. Every plan includes monitoring and backups; the higher tiers add tested updates and change hours. The proposal marks what your plan covers, adjusted to the platform:

• Uptime of the home page and the pages that bring inquiries, checked from outside your hosting
• SSL certificates on every domain and subdomain, domain expiry and DNS records, including the ones email depends on
• Form delivery: a scheduled test submission confirms inquiries still reach the inbox or CRM
• Updates to the CMS, plugins, themes, apps and code dependencies, tested on a staging copy before production
• Off-site backups, with a restore tested on a schedule
• Security headers, vulnerability scans and a review of who has admin access
• Performance after each release, so a heavy image or script is caught the same week
• Small content and design changes within the plan's hours: text, images, a page from an existing template, links and redirects

The website maintenance service page has the full scope, the process and the questions buyers ask.

How fast websites in the United Kingdom are on phones

In October 2026, 68.1% of the websites in the United Kingdom measured by Chrome's user experience report passed all three Core Web Vitals on phones, according to the HTTP Archive. The platform behind a site moves that number:

Speed comes from how a site is built more than from the platform, and Google uses Core Web Vitals in search. The platform speed report has the same numbers for other countries.

Rules a website in Manchester has to meet

These are the rules we plan around for sites that serve customers in Manchester. They are a starting point, not legal advice.

• Accessibility: the Equality Act 2010 requires service providers, websites included, to make reasonable adjustments for disabled people.
• Privacy: the UK GDPR applies to the personal data a website collects through forms, cookies and analytics.

We build to WCAG 2.2 AA and set up consent and forms for these rules from the first brief.

Work you can check

Projects from 2026, each with its published result:

• Janus Observatory (Science / Interactive storytelling, 2026). −47.9% 3D models: 8.2 MB instead of 15.8 MB.
• Hyper (AI / Customer intelligence, 2026). USD 10 per customer research report on hypers.dev.
• Gissi (Education / Music & arts, 2026). 34 → 416 Google clicks: 3 months before, 9 days after relaunch.
• superame.lol (Community / Digital products, 2026). 17 currencies in Spanish, Portuguese and English.
• Shiimain (Public data / Territorial intelligence, 2026). 4 days to build, 27 to 30 May 2026.

None of these clients is in Manchester. They are the projects we can show, with their numbers.

Questions before you choose