Website Testing Checklist
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
- link to
/sitemap.xml/- meta
description - link to svg favicon
- Open Graph metadata
- meta
- 404 page
/images/banner.png/status.jsonwith success, timestamp, message, lastmod, commit, tech- Referrer policy:
unsafe-urlif 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
- 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" />
- link in ‘/’:
- webmention
- logo on VectorLogoZone
- Twitter cards
- Rich 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_dispatchfor manual re-deploy - Github: enable CodeQL (if public repo)
- README best practices
