Website and Application Launch Checklist

A checklist of items to check when launching a website or application. Some items may be optional.

Website Specific

• Git Repo Setup
• Spelling, Grammer, Punctuation
• Forms
• Site Speed
• Multi-browser compatibility
• Web Fonts
• Image load speed & alt text
• Check Links
• Html Validation
• Minify JS & CSS
• 404 Pages
• Favicon
• 301 Redirects
• Title Tags / Meta Data
• Sitemap
• Robots.txt
• Analytics / Metrics IE: Google Analytics
• Social Media Integration
• Allow Indexing
• Documentation or User Guide
• Domain
• Hosting
• SSL (optional)

Application Specific

• Database Production Config
• Error Logging
• Stress Testing
• Monitoring or Reporting (optional)
• Server Setup

Wordpress Specific

• Search Page Template
• 404 Page Template
• Allow Indexing
• Perform Wordpress specific queries to change all absolute URLs
• Change admin emails