Website Testing Checklist

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Things to do

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

Content

• /favicon.ico
• /favicon.svg
• /robots.txt
• /sitemap.xml
• 404 page
• /images/hero.png
• Open Graph metadata
• Analytics: Google Analytics | GoatCounter | Pirsh | Umami
• Self hosting: JavaScript, CSS, fonts
• Structured Data: Breadcrumb | FAQ | Logo | Sitelinks Searchbox

Online Tests

• 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

Optional

• Allow full referrers (=unsafe-url)
• No external files: Local Google fonts
• preconnect headers
• security.txt - unfortunately gets spammed
• RSS feed
  • favicon.png max 144x400, default 144x31