Missing Features

When we launch a web site at Urban Insight we run through a 25-point checklist to ensure that everything is setup correctly for a smooth launch. The checklist includes everything from ensuring Google Analytics is enabled, to verifying a clean 404 page appears to making sure the favicon is in place.

The checklist also includes checks for Drupal, the content management system we frequently use for dynamic web sites.

It was this checklist that served as the inspiration for Droptor. There are many great blog posts that outline great Drupal best practices, but there was no single comprehensive list and no tool that made it easy to check each of these on-the-fly.

This is why Droptor includes checklists for security, performance and general health. It is also why we added the QA Report, which serves as a checklist for upgrading your sites when important security patches are released. With the forthcoming launch of Droptor 2.0 (coming 8/24) we will have a checklist for search engine optimization (SEO).

Here is the SEO checklist we included in Droptor 2.0. It doesn’t include every specific SEO tool available, but does ensure you have a thorough baseline for ensuring your site is easy to index by search engines.

1. Clean URLS
2. Page Title module
3. Global Redirect module
4. Pathauto module
5. Google Analytics module
6. Site Map module
7. Performance tuned*

(* This summer Google announced it would take page load speed into consideration of ranking in page results.)

You can see screen shots of Droptor in the tour page and more information about Droptor 2.0 on the release page.

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