Website Testing Checklist

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Things to do

• Add to internal dashboard: Google Sheets
• Setup monitoring: NodePing
• Setup email: Migadu, forwardemail.net or Cloudflare Email
• Add to Google
• Add to Bing
• Add to Yandex

Content

• favicon
  • /favicon.ico (sizes?)
  • /favicon.svg
  • more
• /robots.txt
  • link to sitemap.xml
• /sitemap.xml
• /
  • meta description
  • link to svg favicon
  • Open Graph metadata
• 404 page
• /images/banner.png
• /status.json with success, timestamp, message, lastmod, commit, tech
• Referrer policy: unsafe-url if possible
• Analytics: Cloudflare Analytics | Google Analytics | GoatCounter | Pirsh | Umami
• Self hosting: JavaScript, CSS
• Fonts: self-hosting, Cloudflare, Bunny.net
• Structured Data: Breadcrumbs: Google,Schema.org | FAQ | Logo | Sitelinks Searchbox
• Static sites: Cloudflare Crawler Hints and “Always online”
• OpenGraph meta-data

Online Tests

• HTML Validator
• CSS Validator
• Wave accessibility test
• Resolve.rs Domain Health Check - certs, redirects, DNS settings
• SecurityHeaders.com - make sure all the HTTP headers are configured
• SSL Labs - check TLS (aka SSL) certificate
• Blacklight - check for privacy issues
• Mozilla Observatory - security headers
• Nibbler - everything
• Structured Data -

Optional

• Google Rich Results: Guides

  Test page

• Allow full referrers (=unsafe-url)
• No external files: Local Google fonts
• preconnect headers
• security.txt - unfortunately gets spammed
• RSS feed
  • link in ‘/’: <link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="My Cool Website" href="https://example.com/feed.xml" />
• webmention
• logo on VectorLogoZone
• Twitter cards
• Facebook Best Practices

Infrastructure

• Git branch: main
• Github Linguist: use .gitattributes to fix
• Github about: description, topics, website link
• Github social media preview
• Github deploy workflow: enable workflow_dispatch for manual re-deploy
• Github: enable CodeQL (if public repo)
• README best practices

SEO

• Macro Biedermann’s List