Launching your website is always exciting as it is going to show the result of your hard work in creating excellent content, putting dazzling design, outstanding interface and other functionalities. Before you are ready to launch a website, don’t forget to check or revise it, since once it is launched, it will play a significant role in improving your business visibility and reputation.
So, here are some significant things to check in your site to ensure it is ready for a stellar start. Take a look:
Check Website Elements Work Properly
Check your website’s entire elements to make sure they are performing as they are desired to. Conduct a series of function tests that helps in checking whether your site elements are programmable. In case, you have any custom modules then test each one on various browsers to ensure the functionality regardless of the platform.
- The images should be optimized for speed.
- Test CTA and contact forms if generated mainly.
- Check the login procedure and credential on the multi-user site.
- If your site is going to accept payments, then run the test at each step of purchase and payment process such as downloads, shopping cart functions, sign-ups, payment accessing, links, buttons and email notifications.
Test Your Website’ Responsiveness
While you design a website, you might pay attention to make it user-friendly which is essential to drive the traffic on your site. But, it is necessary to test your website on different devices such as mobile, smartphone, desktop, tablet, and others. In addition to this, check it on different browsers like Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer, etc., to make sure every element adapts perfectly on different browsers.
Speed Check
Utilize most used speed check tools to ensure faster loading webpages, because a slow loading website causes low traffic. A site which takes more than 3 seconds to open is more likely to lose its users. It will end up getting low conversions, decreased sales and no revenue. Check your dashboard for plugins and delete those which are no longer needed. It is advisable to pay extra attention to your site loading speed.
Check Your Content
Checking the content is another critical part of web design process. There is nothing more awkward than launching a site with lorem ipsum. Content is not only related to the texts, but it also consists of images, videos, web copy and PDF’s popping up right on the pages. Apart from these, it includes other pages like privacy policy and non-discrimination policy. There are several minor, but essential parts available on your site which you need to check and make sure to:
- Avoid scraped content
- Remove the duplicate meta tags
- Optimize meta tags and content
- Utilize schema to markup the content
- The URLs are SEO friendly
- Follow the keyword mapping
- Proofread your content
Check All External Accounts
Check all necessary third-party accounts with the help of Google Analytics and Webmaster Tools. The additional marketing accounts are required to be integrated and verified before launching your site to ensure that these accounts are functioning and giving the required data security.
Compatibility Testing
In some rare cases, plugins don’t play good with each other. So, it is suggested to run a compatibility test for plugins using tools, such as compatibility checker. This can help you to glitch on account of theme, plugin or WP update conflicts.
Test Social Media Integration
As social media networks play a significant role in improving your site traffic, it is essential to display social icons in a way that they are easily noticed by a visitor. Test if it links to the right page approaching the right button.
Test Website Security
Security of your website is a matter to be taken seriously from the beginning. Notably, the admin area should be created as secure as possible to avoid the access of malicious bots and hackers. In case, your site does not have an SSL certificate, it will be labelled as ‘Not Secure’. So, be aware of adding an SSL certificate to your website. Make sure to use free online checkers to find out whether anything is missing out in the certificate.
On the other hand, WordPress is one of the popular CMS, so you have to make sure to have an anti-spam solution. It helps to keep your website safer, so make sure:
- Your computer is free of malware
- Avoid weak and common username & passwords
- Use security plugins
- Keep the up-to-date versions of all software.
Check & Manage Site Backup
Losing your business due to the lack of a site backup is the worst thing which you should prevent by taking regular site backups. Check securely whether you have scheduled the full site backup using plugins and tools like BackWPup and Akeeba backup.
Launching a website can be a daunting task that is why professionals should perform it. To get the assistance of experts, contact us at GlassMedia. We are the leading full-service website design company in Brampton. Our WordPress developers build well tested, responsive and lead converting websites for both small and large businesses. Contact us to discuss your WordPress website requirements.
