Website Health Checklist

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 … Continued

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