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42 Essential Checks Before Launching Your Website

January 24, 2020

At XHTMLJunction, it’s been a decade since we are coding or developing websites from PSDs. To provide a pixel perfect website with perfect functionality to our clients, we follow a rigorous website testing process. We are sharing the same in a checklist format for users who are getting their PSD to HTML coded or are planning to launch their website. Users can also download or print the PDF format of the checklist.

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Web Standards

Functional Testing

  • Check if the rollovers on link and on navigation menu are working.
  • Verify if the page and image linking is done properly.
  • No Broken link – use W3C link checker (http://validator.w3.org/checklink) or online broken link checker (http://www.brokenlinkcheck.com).
  • Preloader must be there – in case of large / multiple images.
  • Verify if a Favicon is added to the site or not.
  • Cross browser testing – to verify if the site is OS and Cross Browser compatible or not. The tools you can use for this are; http://crossbrowsertesting.com , http://www.browserstack.com and http://browsershots.org.
  • The website logo should always be linked to home/index page.
  • Make sure contact/query forms are integrated with the database/Email, and are working correctly.
  • Verify if all the JavaScript based functionality is working in order or not.
  • Check for errors while form submission.
  • Verify the thanks message that comes right after submitting the form.
  • Run spell check on classes, images, and file names.

Basic SEO

  • Ensure that the ‘alt attribute’ is added to all images placed in the webpage. And they all should either be in GIF, JPG, or PNG format only. This will help search engines’ spider bots to crawl the text description of the images.
  • Make sure that the site content should contain description text for Flash or Java plug-in.
  • Add the transcript for audio & video content if you would like the words and phrases used in them to be indexed by search engines.
  • Load speed – It is an essential part of a website that contributes in its success on search engines. https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/, http://gtmetrix.com and http://www.webpagetest.org
  • Don’t forget to add Title Tags, where you can also place your targeted keywords: http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_meta.asp
  • Always prefer to use underscore (_) instead of hyphen or dash (-) to merge the CSS class or id names (e.g: #body_container).
  • Make SEO friendly URLs by using hyphens to separate words.

Here are some more tests which must be done before launching a new website:

Content

SEO

Download a PDF version: The Pre-Launch Website Testing Checklist by XHTMLJunction.com

Additionally, here’s an infographic highlighting all the important aspects of this website pre-launch checklist. It could prove to be a good visual aid for developers and designers alike.

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