Here is a list of things to check before launching a website
If you are planning on creating your website, use this list to make sure that the most important tasks are completed. If you are starting from a template and decide to create your website on your own, feel free to keep track of what you couldn’t do and make a request from your dashboard to let us handle it for you
- Page load time optimisation
- Images are compressed
- CDN installed
- Scripts compressed, loaded from the right places
- Scripts merged when applicable
- Script loaded the right way and at the right time
- CSS compressed
- CSS merged when applicable
- Only use inline scripts and CSS when and where necessary
- Setup periodic Speed checks
- SEO
- Set and test your URL redirection rules if the new website replaces an older one
- Make sure that all header tags are properly set
- Meta tags default rules in place
- Set your schema data | Information regarding structured data
- Image ALTernative text uploaded | More information regarding ALT text in WordPress
- OG tag (Open Graph markup) | More information
- Custom meta tags uploaded
- Check all content tags on all web pages
- Setup search consoles
- Setup periodic SEO checks
- Verify the website’s content structure (URLs, categories, etc)
- Remove selected pages from the index / sitemap file
- Check and submit your sitemap to search engines
- Add your nofollow links
- Add breadcrumb if necessary and use the correct tags more info
- Make sure that Canonical URLs are set for multilingual websites
- Marketing
- Add your third party scripts
- Setup data analytics
- Check your newsletter and other forms
- Customise your transactional emails. View all WooCommerce email templates
- Clean up
- Remove any test content
- Check that all third party integrations use the live credentials
- Testing
- Usability testing
- Web browser testing
- Fix any broken links
- Test all web forms and automated emails
- Check stock, pricing, account, delivery, checkout for Ecommerce website
- Setup all monitoring tools