Website Reference
by John Vincent
Posted on June 17, 2018
This document serves as a reference point for various Website topics.
Topics
Google Webmaster Tools
and review crawl statistics
Google Analytics
Check the Spelling and Grammar
To spell check documents in general, see Check the Spelling and Grammar for details.
Check the Spelling and Grammar of Markdown Documents
To spell check Markdown documents, see Spell Checking Markdown Documents for details.
Check for Vulnerabilities
For details, see Using Snyk which discusses tracking and removing known vulnerabilities.
Favicons
This topic tends to intermingle with Web App Manifest problems. The next section discusses the Web App Manifest.
For details, see Using Favicons
Web App Manifest
For details, see About Web App Manifests
Meta Tags for Search Engines, Google, Facebook and Twitter
For details, see Configuring Meta Tags
Check Browser Caching
For details, see Browser Caching
Ensure browser is caching certain resources.
Varvy Tools
Useful suite of tools.
Varvy SEO Tool
Enter each URL and test.
Clean up any issues found.
Varvy Speed Tool
Enter each URL and test.
Clean up any issues found.
Varvy Mobile Tool
Enter each URL and test.
Clean up any issues found.
Lighthouse
Lighthouse is a Chrome plugin. Download and install Lighthouse from the Chrome Web Store.
To run Lighthouse
- Open Chrome
- Enter URL
- Plugin Icon (top right)
- Generate Report
Clean up any issues found.
If you get the message
There were issues affecting this run of Lighthouse:
Chrome extensions negatively affected this page's load performance. Try auditing the page in incognito mode or from a Chrome profile without extensions.then switch to Incognito Mode and run Lighthouse from there.
- Open Chrome
- Settings (top right, 3 circles)
- Settings
- Extensions (left menu, bottom)
- Lighthouse (card)
- Details
- Allow in incognito
- Enable
To run Lighthouse
- Open Chrome Incognito
- Enter url to test
and the report will be generated.
When the testing is complete, it is probably best to disable the extension in Incognito mode.
Google Page Speed Insights
Enter each URL and test.
Clean up any issues found.
Nibbler Tools
Free version of Nibbler is limited to 5 URLs but is still very powerful.
Enter home URL and test.
Clean up any issues found.
HTML Validator
Enter each URL and test.
Clean up any issues found.
CSS Validator
Enter each URL and test.
Clean up any issues found.
RSS Feed Validator
Usability Checklist
Review all pages with this checklist.
Web Accessibility
- Add Chromevox to Chrome.
- Check every page
- Tab through, ensure order is good.
- Ensure vocal info is useful.
Web Accessibility Evaluation Tool
Enter each URL and test.
Clean up any issues found.
If the app hangs, try installing the browser extension into Chrome or Firefox. Adds an icon (top right).
Enter each URL and test by pressing the icon.
Check Google Fonts
For details, see Google Fonts and Google Web Font Loader
Check HTML for ARIA
For details, see HTML ARIA
Check HTML for Microdata
For details, see HTML Microdata
Verify each URL with Google Structured Data Testing Tool
HTML5 Semantics
Useful HTML5 Semantics Guide
Review your HTML5 Semantics
Verify each page with Test HTML5 Semantics
Check your Libraries
Ensure you are using a cloud version.
Look up your libraries
- https://cdnjs.com/
Review Application
- set focus (.focus())
- prevent double submits
- ensure image has alt tag
- review icons and images - can they be sprited?
- Using SVG?