Pre-Launch and Migration Checklist
The items that must be verified before a new site launches or an existing one changes domain, platform, or URL structure.
Analogy Mental model
The countdown checklist before a launch: fuel, oxygen, communications, ejection seat. One missed item is not a delay, it is a failure.
In practice What you actually do
Twenty items cover most of it: staging blocks removed, redirect mapping configured and individually tested, sitemap rebuilt and submitted, canonicals pointing at the new host, language annotations updated, analytics firing, address change filed where applicable, markup rendering on new templates, field performance passing, and title templates configured per template.
Where people get burned Pitfalls
Monitor for forty-eight hours without exception. Check indexing, live traffic, and status codes every couple of hours on the day and the day after, and roll back immediately if something is wrong rather than discovering it at the following week's meeting.
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