Checklist PDF

The Website Launch Checklist

40 Items Before You Go Live

A new website is not ready when it looks finished. Every technical, accessibility, performance, SEO, and AI search check must pass.

Reference edition. Applied diagnosis starts with a live-site review.

What's inside

01

Technical (1-10)

  • SSL certificate
  • Custom domain
  • 404 page
  • Favicon
  • Viewport
  • Lang attribute
  • Encoding
  • Trailing slashes
  • Canonicals
  • No broken links
02

Accessibility (11-18)

  • Heading hierarchy
  • Alt text
  • Skip link
  • Focus states
  • Contrast AA
  • Touch 44px+
  • Form labels
  • Reduced motion
03

Performance (19-26)

  • Mobile speed reviewed
  • Images
  • Fonts
  • No render-block
  • Compression
  • CDN
  • No dead code
  • Performance baseline green
04

SEO (27-34)

  • Titles
  • Descriptions
  • Sitemap
  • robots.txt
  • JSON-LD
  • OG tags
  • OG images
  • GSC verified
05

AI Search (35-40)

  • llms.txt
  • AI crawlers
  • FAQ schema
  • Passage independence
  • Author schema
  • Citation anchors

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