title= [ Website Review ]
If you already have a website, it would be worth running through the checklist to see if you have most things covered.
If you find any of the below problems on your website, or don't know how to check for them, then it is most definately time for a website review.
{ check: website completion checklist }
- Test your site on the W3C validator to check for errors
- Check your CSS validates with the W3C CSS validator
- Check if your site meets Section 508 Compliance for accessibility
- Test if your site runs on different resolutions, including as low as 200px, for mobile phone compatibility. You can do this by either disabling your CSS, or by using an online tester.
- Check your website on different platforms and browsers if possible. Ask friends, clients, etc, about what they are running, and check to see if your site performs.
- Check that all your links are active. Most HTML Editors have this feature built in. If your editor doesn't, try using Xenulink
- Check your font sizes, to see if they scale appropriately for users that adjust the font sizes through their browser
- Check your image sizes. Large or un-optimised images can result in large file sizes, which slow down the loading of the webpage.
- Check your site with the images turned off. This indicates how a screen reader or text only browser will read it. Make sure content is legible and that users are still able to navigate througout the site
- Print out a copy of your webpage, to test for printing capabilities
- Check the size of the web page for download times (see below for example)
- Test your navigation and basic content usability with Javascript turned off.
- Check the site with any plug-ins disabled.
{ file size: website speeds }
A file size of approximately 10,000bytes will load on these different modems:
- 14.4 -- 7.2 seconds
- 28.8 -- 4.0 seconds
- 33.6 -- 3.5 seconds
- 56k -- 2.9 seconds
- 128k -- 1.4 seconds
- T1 -- 0.5 seconds
** approximate times only**






