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AHANIX working resource

Website Redesign Checklist

Protect useful content, search equity and working journeys while improving an established website.

For: Businesses preparing a redesign, replatform or substantial content restructure.

Section 01

Before design

  • Inventory current URLs, content, forms, integrations and analytics events.
  • Identify real customer and operational problems rather than copying visual trends.
  • Record useful search visibility, backlinks and high-value landing pages.
  • Agree what must be retained, rewritten, consolidated or removed.

Section 02

During the project

  • Map old URLs to the new information architecture.
  • Prototype important mobile and keyboard journeys.
  • Test content, forms, permissions and third-party handoffs.
  • Keep the staging environment private and excluded from indexing.

Section 03

Launch and follow-up

  • Implement direct permanent redirects for replaced public URLs.
  • Update canonicals, sitemaps, internal links and search-console settings.
  • Compare post-launch errors and customer actions against the recorded baseline.
  • Keep a rollback and incident route during the stabilisation period.