mcbrwr/flightcheck

Flightcheck for website frontend development

Flightcheck

Flightcheck for website release.

Dev Essentials

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• check markup (https://validator.w3.org/)
• check accesibility (http://wave.webaim.org)
• can you navigate the site by keyboard?
• does the site work and make sense without styling?
• does the site work and make sense without javascript?
• does the site work and make sense on every device?
• does the printstyling make sense? It's also used for saving to PDF!
• does the site make sense on a screenreader?
• is a sitemap.xml being generated or has it been added manually?

Deployment

• choose www/non-www and redirect the other
• are there aliases for the domain and do they work?
• is the .htaccess in order?
• security check: is everything that should not be accessible not accessible? Dev resources etc..

Migrating a site?

• make old content available (when applicable with 301 redirects)

Functionality

• check if forms store data or send mail as expected
• do forms keep data if you reload or switch page?
• check all filter pages if applicable
• fix broken links (https://validator.w3.org/checklink)
• does a search functionality return sensible results?

Optimisation

• Pagespeed 90+ (https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/)
• Are images optimised?
• Is there a javascript strategy?

Social media optimisation & SEO

• Do share buttons work?
• Open Graph tags (http://ogp.me, check them: https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/)
• Google Analytics or some other analytics needed?
• Google Search Console (and integration with Google Analytics) if applicable
• Apply schema.org markup where applicable https://schema.org/