Many of our customers reach us as they realise their existing website is nearing, or has reached the end of its viability. Protect 24 are an independent security firm based in Peterborough.

They have a forward-thinking approach to security technology, offering clients a bespoke approach to their CCTV and access control systems, with a focus on keeping at the leading edge of technological developments in the security sector.

We’re sure they won’t mind us saying their previous website no longer reflected their corporate identity when they approached us in late 2018!

It is easy, especially for SMEs, to become so entrenched in their service delivery that updating their website just keeps getting put off. The irony was striking, considering Protect 24 install CCTV systems that are accessible from anywhere between a multi-screen surveillance hub and a smartphone!

The contemporary internet user expects fast-loading websites that will facilitate the journey to their desired location within three clicks. Above all though, they expect a seamless transition in experience from desktop to mobile or tablet use.

Older websites built before or, at the outset of the smartphone boom, were not constructed with mobile device use in mind. The resultant rapid shift to smartphones and tablets becoming the most popular means of accessing the web rendered many websites obsolete.

That isn’t to say the developers did a bad job working on these sites, but it certainly serves an indicator that technology, and by default the way we access websites with that technology, is continually shifting along at breakneck pace. In 2018, 52.2 % of all website traffic worldwide was generated through mobile devices, up from 50.3 % in the 2017.

Consider the ubiquity of tablets today, compared with the launch of the first iPad in April 2010, when tablets were widely considered a busted flush.

Technology moves on. No website constructed today will be viable in ten years, however finely tuned and precisely optimised it may be, and the device you are reading this on now will appear as antiquated as, well…whatever we used before iPads.

We are delighted to work with a company whose approach to technological advancement in their own industry matches our own. Today, the Protect 24 website is clean, fast, efficient and responsive – which mirrors the impeccable service they’ve delivered to homes and businesses around Cambridgeshire for over two decades.