15 Step Website Check List (2022)

What’s the best way to make sure your website meets all of your user’s requirements? A website checklist!

Whether you’re redesigning your existing website or creating a new website from scratch, there are certain elements of website design that are crucial for the perfect website. It’s easy to feel lost in this situation, and sometimes even impossible to start!

That’s why we’ve created a 15-point checklist for you to create the best website possible.

Even if you think you’ve created the perfect website, it’s worth using our checklist to ensure you haven’t forgotten anything. After all, it’s really easy to make mistakes when you’re trying to do too much at once.

1 | Cross Browser and Device Testing

The perfect website will look great on all internet browsers, devices, and operating systems. For example: Chrome, Safari, Edge, Apple, Android, iPad, Samsung Galaxy Tab.

2 | Test your Links

Broken links can be the cause of a poor user experience and can adversely affect your SEO. Try using a tool such as ScreamingFrog to assist you.

3 | Upload your Favicon

A favicon can really add to the user experience, allowing visitors to identify your website easily and navigate to it via quick links.

4 | Social Media

It’s really important to make sure all your social media icons and links are working correctly. Linking to dummy URLs will make your website look unprofessional.

5 | Web Hosting

Ensuring that your web host has a 99.9% uptime guarantee is very important! After all, if your website is offline, how can anyone view it?

6 | Speed

The average user will abandon a web page if it doesn’t load within 3 seconds. Using a tool like Pingdom can help you ascertain your website speed and how to improve it.

7 | 404 Errors

You’ll want to set up a 404 page for your website so your users don’t simply encounter an error. While you’re at it, you can use a broken link checker to identify any problems.

8 | Security

Whether you’re setting up an eCommerce store or hold personal data, you’ll need to make sure your website has an SSL certificate, protecting you and your users from hackers.

9 | Backup

Using your web hosting provider or content management system (CMS), make sure you take a backup of your website in case something goes wrong.

10 | Lorem Ipsum

Have you used a theme or template to create your website? Make sure no dummy text remains on your website, and only contains genuine content.

11 | Sitemap

If you want your website’s SEO to be more valuable, use a sitemap to ensure that search engines like Google can crawl your website successfully.

12 | Form Testing

Does your website contain forms? Whether it’s a contact form or mail subscription, make sure your forms are functioning correctly.

13 | Title and Description

Using a tool like ScreamingFrog, check your website’s title and description are filled out, making them relevant to your site.

14 | Spelling and Grammar

You can use Grammarly to check spelling and grammatical errors on your website. Your content should always be unique and easy to read by any user.

15 | Privacy Policy

If you obtain personal information on your website or run an eCommerce store, you’ll need some form of privacy policy or terms and conditions on your site.