Web Developer Checklist

Web Developer Checklist

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Best Practices

Required:

W3C link checker
Capitalization
Writing Style
Word variations (e.g. UK vs US)
BrowserShots.org
Browserling.com
BrowserStack
LambdaTest
CrossBrowserTesting
no-www.org score of 'B'
...or www.yes-www.org
Handle 'www' in web.config

Mobile

Required:

Mobile Friendly Checker
Don't forget the viewport meta-tag
Make your website mobile friendly
Input Type: Email, Url, Phone
Diving in to HTML5 forms
Use BrowserStack to test on multiple devices

Analytics & Monitoring

Required:

Uptime Robot
StatusCake.com
Google Analytics
StatCounter
Clicky
Matomo (formerly known as Piwik)

Performance

Required:

Google PageSpeed Insights
redbot.org
Analize how images affect your page
TinyPNG
kraken.io
squoosh.app
PNGGauntlet for Windows
ImageOptim for Mac

Usability

Required:

Can I Use
Modernizr JS library
W3C Internationalization Checker
A more useful 404
Real Favicon Generator
Favicon Cheat Sheet
SEO Friendly URLs
URL rewriting in ISS
URL rewriting in Apache
URL rewriting in NGINX
Set up a print stylesheet

Optional:

Google Custom Search
Consider 'Open Search'
Safari on iOS
Internet Explorer on Windows

Semantics

Required:

Schema.org reference
Schema-Creator.org
Google Structured Data Testing Tool
Facebook OpenGraph Debugger
Twitter Card Validator

SEO

Required:

Online Tester
Getting Started
Create a robots.txt file
Create sitemap online

Code Quality

Required:

W3C validator
HTML5 Validator.nu
W3C CSS validator
Run CSS Lint online
Run JSLint online
Run JSHint online
W3C i18n checker

Accessibility

Required:

Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) Overview
Common problems and solutions
Web Accessibility Evaluation Tool
Test using a screen reader
Check color contrast online
Using WAI-ARIA Landmarks
Guide to WAI-ARIA
Practical Examples

Security

Required:

Observatory by Mozilla
XSS cheat sheet
DOM based XSS cheat sheet
Explanation and walkthrough
CSRF cheat sheet

Optional:

Free SSL/TLS Certificates
Setup SSL on ISS
Setup SSL on Apache
Setup SSL on NGINX
SSL Server Test
MDN Overview
OWASP Overview
Content Security Policy
Content Security Policy (MDN)
CSP Evaluator Online

Social Media & Structured Data

Optional:

How structured data works in Google Search
Open Graph Protocol Reference
Documentation
Sharing on Facebook

...and finally

Optional:

Humans.txt generator
Required: 0/34Optional: 0/10
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