Launch Checklist

Pages

✔ Add Home page
✔ Add Contact page
✔ Contact page → Add client email as form recipient
✔ Contact page → Add form validation
✔ Contact page → Add spam protection (honeypot/CAPTCHA)
✔ Contact page → Add confirmation message
✔ Contact page → Add confirmation email
✔ Contact page → Verify all previous steps
✔ Add Style Guide page (hidden from SEO)
✔ Add 404 page (hidden from SEO)

Legal

✔ Add Terms of Service page
✔ Add Privacy Policy page
✔ Add Cookie Policy page
✔ Add Disclaimers page

Accessibility

✔ Verify color contrast is readable
✔ Ensure keyboard navigation works
✔ Check visible focus states
✔ Add proper form labels
✔ Confirm correct heading structure (H1 → H2 → H3)

SEO

✔ Add sitemap.xml
✔ Add robots.txt
✔ Add favicon.ico
✔ Add page titles
✔ Add page canonical URLs
✔ Add page meta descriptions
✔ Configure search appearance
✔ Configure social appearance
✔ Add Open Graph / social tags
✔ Verify all production pages are indexable
✔ Connect Google Search Console — https://search.google.com/search-console
✔ Submit sitemap to Google Search Console

Analytics

✔ Create Google Analytics account — https://analytics.google.com/
✔ Add analytics tags to <head>
✔ Verify tag installation

UX & Content

✔ Remove console logs
✔ Optimize image size & formats (WebP)
✔ Review spelling and grammar
✔ Check accessibility basics (contrast, focus states, labels)

Reports & Audits

✔ Run PageSpeed Insights — https://pagespeed.web.dev
✔ Ensure performance over 90% (LCP, CLS, TBT)
✔ Ensure accessibility over 90%
✔ Ensure best practices over 90%
✔ Ensure seo over 90%
✔ Ensure agentic browsing over 90%

Technical

✔ Test mobile responsiveness
✔ Test cross-browser compatibility
✔ Check for broken links
✔ Verify HTTPS is enabled

Email Migration (if needed)

✔ Create Google Workspace accounts
✔ Backup email DNS records (MX, SPF, DKIM, DMARC)
✔ Update email DNS records (MX, SPF, DKIM, DMARC)
✔ Migrate existing email
✔ Test sending and receiving email
✔ Verify DNS propagation (MX, SPF, DKIM, DMARC) — https://dnschecker.org/

Site Migration

✔ Configure redirects for changed URLs

Launch

✔ Create client hosting account
✔ Invite client as collaborator
✔ Add client billing and editing permissions
✔ Client adds billing details
✔ Change DNS records (A, CNAME)
✔ Verify DNS propagation (A, CNAME) — https://dnschecker.org/

Post-Launch

✔ If needed, cancel old hosting plan