Spring Cleaning Your Website

With Spring around the corner, Spring Cleaning should be on your mind. Why limit that just to your house? Now is the perfect time to take a closer look at the functionality, usability and relevance of your website, and where you may be able to make some improvements. Here's some things to spring into when cleaning your website.
 

Give It A Proofread

Take this opportunity to read over your website. If you have a lot of pages or a blog, this may take a while, but it’s worth it to make sure that you don’t have any embarrassing typos on the site for all your visitors to see.
 

Re-Evaluate Your Navigation

Give your website a usability test. Does your existing navigation and overall site structure make it easy to find what you’re looking for? What can you change to make your website more user-friendly.
 

Check For Broken Links

Ideally, this is a job you should tackle once every few months, but it’s easy to let it get away from you. If you haven’t checked for broken links in a while, this website refresh is a good time to do it. ⠀
 

Test Your Website On All Browsers/Devices

Does your website look and function the way it’s supposed to in other browsers, like Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox and Apple Safari? By downloading the latest versions of each browser, you can test the functionality of your website in each.
 

Review Analytics

Determine which pages are frequented the most, and which are getting a bit moldy. Polish up your popular posts and consider how you can get more mileage out of them — a social media post or campaign, perhaps.
 

Test Functionality

Fill out any forms, take any surveys, sign up for every email list offered on your site, and make sure the process is simple, intuitive, and most importantly, functional.