Tips and advice for startup website launch

[Fuel]

We have a few tools that our developers use when they need to - BrowserStack, Virtual  Box, VM Ware, iOS simulator, etc. - most of which are pretty standard. Do you all use anything different?

[Linda-Vassily]

BrowserStack is the one we use--it seems to work pretty well.

[Tone_Agency]

We've used all of those

Others we use are Bootcamp, Virtualbox and we also use inspect element in chrome to emulate devices and remote inspect element using Safari.

[Tone_Agency]

Not forgetting our own personal mobile devices too

[DirkC]

Do a full crawl of your site with a tool like Screaming Frog. If you configure the spider to respect robots.txt & canonicals it will behave like google bot you will see if all your pages are indexed properly. The tool also gives you valuable info on things like H1, Title, Meta descriptions (and standard filters to check if they are missing, duplicates, too long/short,...). It shows your internal site structure (number of clicks needed to get to each page) and the size of your images. You can even use it to check if the analytics tag is present on each page using a custom filter.

It's not free if you use it in spider mode (the free version only spiders 500 URI's) - but if you have a sitemap, you could also do a crawl based on the list of your url's (which is free, regardless the number of url's). Limitation is that you don't get the structure and the internal links, but if it is a brand new site and not too big, that shouldn't really be a problem.

rgds

Dirk

[italiafirenze]

When I prototype a website I use a lot of # href links. I would suggest a search through the source code for "a href="#"" thus removing any of these "dead" links before you go to production.

Note to self: remember to actually do this yourself.

[MickEdwards]

This is a good point.  I am working on a group of sites on wpengine.  So dev was using something like name.staging.wpengine.  When they went live the directories etc switched to the live domain but scattered throughout the site within the content the URLs remained the same.   ScreamingFrog is your friend.

[Tone_Agency]

Hey Dirk

Great advice! I'm a big fan of Screaming Frog too. A handy free tool especially for small startup websites.

Thanks for commenting

[Tone_Agency]

Great shout Craig. Every now and then I'll find a "#" link on live websites. Looks careless and lazy!

[Tone_Agency]

Hey guys

Just wanted to thank you all for your suggestions and let you know that all of your suggestions are included in the final blog post here.

I've thanked you all at the end

Thanks again, I really appreciate it.

Anthony

[Sjani11]

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[Adlanera]

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