A checklist for all projects that are going live at RETINENS

Based on https://github.com/spatie/checklist-going-live

1. Test on Desktop and mobile

• Desktop
• Tablet
• Mobile

2. Front end checklist

Assets

• Search sources for http://. Replace by https://
• Check everything is compiling npm run build
• Webfonts: is the live domain configured in services like Fontawesome ?
• Github Actions : is everything configured and running smoothly ?

Scripts

• Check JS errors. Remove all console.log lines in scripts
• Is Flare configured in Vue project
• Check for console errors

Page weight

• Evaluate total weight of at least homepage (GTMetrix)
• Open Inspector network/timeline tab to identify heavy assets (CSS, JS or images)
• Check if heavy assets are cached
• Are the images optimized and well-sized ?

Audits

• Use the Chrome DevTools (in incognito mode) and perform a mobile audit (with throttling) to fix common problems.
• Repeat with a desktop audit.
• Page speed insight audit
• Run PageSpeed Insights

3. Check content (with an open console)

• Are all strings / images present (and translated)?
• Does menu/submenu have a correct active state on every page?
• Are custom 404, 500 and 503 pages provided? Do they provide useful content like 'back to home', search or a navigation tree?
• Check all pages for n+1 problems

Meta/SEO

• Check default values in config/seotools.php
• Check page titles / descriptions on every page
• Test Facebook / Twitter sharing.
• Does the Favicon load? Pin the tab in Safari to check pinned icon
• Is a theme color defined in the HTML header ?
• Is the block robots checkbox unchecked in Ploi ?
• Is the sitemap autogenerator installed and configured ?
• Is there a default OG image ?

Repeat this section for all languages

Components

• Check layout of emails
• Check email styling

4. Back end checklist

• Verify all e-mail recipients are correct (for contact emails)
• Scan database for urls to development domain

5. Server, DNS & Services

• Add redirects from old to new pages if necessary (routes/redirect.php)
• Install Let's Encrypt certificate
• Check SSL certificate health https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/
• Try visiting www domain, should redirect to non-www
• Try out visiting http, should redirect to https
• Verify that indexing is not prohibited with x-robots-tag: none by checking curl -I https://url | grep 'x-robots-tag'. Allow robots in .env
• Verify Tag Manager / Analytics have been correctly set up, and set in tarteaucitron

Google Search Console

• Submit all www/non-www http/https variations
• Set up non-www https as the preferred domain
• Crawl > Fetch as Google > Submit to index to kickstart index

Server

• Are DigitalOcean backups enabled?
• Is artisan scheduled on Ploi?
• Is Horizon configured in Supervisor on Ploi?
• Is the database backed up on Ploi ?
• Check the .env on the production server
• Enable caching in Nginx

Bug Tracking

• Is Flare configured ?