12-Point Website Checklist Before You Launch

Every site we ship goes through a pre-launch checklist. Sharing it here so you can use it too.

1. Mobile responsiveness on 3 real devices
2. Form submissions actually reach inbox + DB
3. PageSpeed ≥ 80 on mobile
4. Favicon + social share preview (OG tags)
5. Sitemap.xml + robots.txt live
6. Google Search Console + Analytics wired
7. SSL + HTTPS everywhere
8. 404 page + broken link check
9. Alt text on every image
10. Canonical tags on every page
11. Backup + deploy process documented
12. Client trained on admin panel