What makes website healthy? We recently came up with 50-points inspection for a websites, it’s good for brand new development as well as for “annual checkup” at the website doctor’s office
So, here is a list of items we are looking at:
Standards & Compatibility
- Accessibility
- HTML Validation
- CSS Validation
- JavaScripts Validation
- DNS Report
- Style & Layout
- Pages Markup
- Browsers Compatibility
- Screen Size Test
- No JavaScripts test
- No Flash test
- Print View
- Page Icon
- Error pages
Consistency
- Tables
- Lists
- Links
- Images
- Common wording
- Capitalization in titles
Content
- Content duplication
- Freshness of content
- Volume
- Presentation
Functionality
- Search
- Contact Forms
- Registration
- Login
- Newsletter
Security
- Admin pages
- Error reporting
- Cross site scripting
- SQL injections
Search Engines Optimization (SEO)
- Site Structure
- Navigation
- Sitemap
- Robots.txt
- Page Titles
- Page Descriptions
- Images
- Cross-linking
- Links attributes
- Social media presence
Search Engines Status
- Pages Indexed
- Position
- Backlinks
Performance
- Caching
- Request overhead
- Pages size
- Browser rendering