Let’s Check the Website Quality in these 5 Steps
About to go LIVE? But is your website really ready? You need to make sure of that. When you are about to launch your website, you need to run the website through a quality analysis so that once you go live, you are not disappointed in any way or it does not turn out to be big fiasco!
Functionalities Check List
Forms:
Go and fill through all the forms integrated in your website. Make sure you take the entire process like you are the user of the website. It is important to ensure quality as the user should be not disappointed at any level while filling the forms. If at all you have trouble filling any of the forms, you need to inform that your web development agency and get it fixed.
Links:
Click on all the links placed in the website. This is to avoid any disappointed for your users. Any redirection leading to an error showing page or faulty page can lead to faulty call to action or no action at all. So you need to look for these aspects and ensure the working of the links!
Logo of the Brand & other Logos:
The brand is important. You need to realize that the website is made for a specific reason and for a specific entity. It needs to belong to some entity. So placement of the logo and its visibility must be ensured on the website. The visitor should be able to see it on mostly every page, especially areas like payment gateways or completion of some process on the website. This also sends across a genuine and trust-worthy image of your brand. Also, you don’t want to miss the opportunity of branding yourself when you are creating a website.
Social Media Buttons:
Click on all the social media buttons and check whether they are linked to the right page of the various platforms. If the redirection is incorrect, tell your web development agency to run through a proper check. Mistakes like these are silly but always possible. So checking them yourself once is important.
RSS feeds:
Post something on the feed and see if it updates in appears in the RSS. Check whether it gets updated automatically or not. If not, there is problem!
Cross Platform Compatibility:
Download all the popular browsers and open your website link on the entire platform to check if the website is optimal for viewing on each of those platforms. All the functionalities must work across all the browsers.
Also open the website in different devices. Check the visibility of the website and alignments. See if any of the features are not overlapping each other and if there are any issues with the functionalities. Conduct an in depth study and send your feedback to the web development team.
Content Checklist
Content of the website is the key. You need to make sure it is proofed and meeting the design requirements. Follow the grind and see if your website content is in place.
Content on Web Pages:
Proof- read content of all the pages and check if it matches with the content draft sent by you. It is important to check the same as if there are any grammatical or spelling errors, it can affect your image and make you look not worthy. I am sure you don’t want that as your first impression. Make sure the content is meeting the purpose of the building the website and the content is placed in the layout decided.
Contact Details:
This is a very important part of the website. Check through the contact numbers and email ids. Make sure you have posted the correct address with the correct spellings. After it is that point where the client or user gets in touch with you. Ask your web development company to integrate a location map to guide your users to your location.
Unique Content:
Run your content through a plagiarism checker and ensure that your content is not copied from anywhere. Your content must appear different, it should be interactive, it must stand out! If you have copied any of the content, there is all the chance that the search engines will figure it out and you will have to pay penalty for it.
Spelling & Grammar Check:
Make sure that your content is proofread 10 times until you have perfected it! It is important that your content is error free. Give it to a professional to check it once! This is important for image building and good comprehension of the content!