A web standards checklist

1. Quality of code

  1. Does the site use a correct Doctype?
    http://www.w3.org/QA/2002/04/valid-dtd-list.html
  2. Does the site use a Character set?
    http://www.w3.org/International/O-charset.html
  3. Does the site use Valid (X)HTML?
    http://validator.w3.org/
  4. Does the site use Valid CSS?
    http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/
  5. Does the site use any CSS hacks?
  6. Does the site use unnecessary classes or ids?
  7. Is the code well structured?
    http://www.w3.org/2003/12/semantic-extractor.html
  8. Does the site have any broken links?
    http://validator.w3.org/checklink
  9. How does the site perform in terms of speed/page size?
    http://www.websiteoptimization.com/services/analyze/
  10. Does the site have JavaScript errors?