If you’ve ever managed a large digital estate, whether at a university, government agency, or global company, you’ve probably experienced spreadsheet fatigue. Rows and rows of URLs, owners, dates, scores, and notes… and still no clear, real-time picture of what’s actually happening across your sites.
At Little Forest, we see this every day: organisations trying to keep up with sprawling web portfolios using static spreadsheets. It’s well-intentioned but it’s not sustainable.

The Problem With Spreadsheets vs a Web Registry
Spreadsheets are brilliant for quick planning and small projects, but when you’re tracking hundreds (or thousands) of websites, they quickly become:
❌ Out of date the moment they’re saved
❌ Difficult to share and maintain across teams
❌ Error-prone, especially when data is entered manually
❌ Disconnected from real-time reporting tools and audits
And we’ve all seen what happens next – different versions of the same file floating around, naming conventions lost in translation, and everyone asking the same question: “Which version is the right one?”
The result? Hours wasted on admin, duplicated effort, and critical issues (like accessibility or security failures) going unnoticed until it’s too late.

Your Web Registry: One Central Source of Truth
That’s where Little Forest’s Web Registry comes in.
Instead of juggling dozens of spreadsheets, our platform gives you a single, always up-to-date hub for everything you need to know about your websites. Think of it as a living map of your entire digital estate – dynamic, automated, and accessible to everyone who needs it.
From one dashboard, you can view:
- All your websites in one place – Instantly see your full portfolio, regardless of size or structure.
- Ownership information – See who’s responsible for each site and when it was last reviewed.
- Accessibility scores – Track WCAG compliance across all pages and identify problem areas at a glance.
- AI Analysis tools – Ask any question about your estate and get answers in seconds.
- Sustainability metrics – Measure your digital carbon footprint, from page weight and emissions to green hosting data.
- Broken links – Automatically identify, prioritise, and fix errors before they become user frustrations.
- Security scores – Monitor vulnerabilities, SSL certificates, and HTTPS performance across every domain.
No more chasing data or merging files. Just clean, automated, real-time information that updates itself.

From Manual Content Audits to Smart Insights
Running a content audit across all your web estate used to mean months of tedious work: data gathering, checking URLs, and emailing site owners for updates. With Little Forest, it’s all automated.
Our system continuously scans your digital estate, combining automated data (accessibility, security, sustainability) with human insights (ownership, purpose, audience). You can instantly filter, tag, and analyse; seeing the full picture of your estate in seconds.
Want to know:
Which sites haven’t been updated in a year?
Which pages are still non-accessible?
Which departments are using non-green hosting?
It’s all there – easy to visualise, easy to act on, and updated automatically.

Why a Web Registry Matters
Getting out of spreadsheets isn’t just about convenience; it’s about control, collaboration, and confidence.
A Web Registry empowers your team to:
- Make faster, evidence-based decisions using live data.
- Work from one shared source of truth, reducing confusion and human error.
- Save time and resources, freeing you to focus on improving, not just monitoring and chasing data.
- Boost governance and accountability, with a clear view of ownership and compliance across every domain.
- Strengthen collaboration across departments, so technical, communications, and compliance teams all speak the same language.
The shift from manual spreadsheets to an automated registry isn’t just a workflow improvement — it’s a cultural one. It transforms how organisations understand and manage their digital presence. It’s a smarter, simpler, and more transparent way to manage your entire digital footprint.

Time to Upgrade Your Audit
If your team is still using spreadsheets to manage a massive list of websites, it’s time to move forward. With Little Forest, you can turn digital chaos into clarity, and focus your time where it really counts: making better, more accessible, and more sustainable websites.
Our goal is simple: to make digital governance effortless, transparent, and data-driven. Because when you can finally see your entire web estate clearly, managing it becomes not just possible but powerful.
Ready to get out of the spreadsheet trap and build your Web Registry?
Let’s talk, please get in touch on email [email protected]
