General / Code Quality

• follow the project structure guidelines
• serve all images in next-gen formats
• use eslint, prettier and stylelint with the default config
• run all code quality checkers (e.g. Code Climate, Codacy)
• run Lighthouse

A11Y

• use more semantic html (main, header, section, aside, ...)
• check for noscript performance
• run axe audit and/or Pa11y

Features / SEO

• add a sitemap
• add a robots.txt
• do SEO including setting all metadata
• have a CSP
• set a favicon

For Blog-Style Sites

• set up comments
• add an rss feed

Before Deploy

• set up Dependabot
• set up domain
• hook up github to host

Just After Deploy

• send new blog posts out to newsletter