How to Test Your Webflow Website: A Practical Checklist

Launching a new Webflow site, or even making simple updates, can sometimes feel like crossing the finish line. The design looks good, the animations are working, and you’re ready to go live. But hold on—have you tested everything?

Sometimes it’s the small things that slip through the cracks. Even minor changes can introduce issues you didn’t expect. A broken link here, a missing meta tag there. These things add up and can affect your SEO, user experience, and even conversions.

This checklist covers everything you should test before hitting publish.

Whether you’re launching a brand new site or updating an existing one, these steps will help make sure your Webflow site is ready.

1. Check the layout and mobile experience

Webflow makes it easy to design for different screen sizes. However, things can still break once the site is published, especially if you’ve changed a shared component, updated a class, or added new content.

Even small updates can cause layout shifts or mobile-specific issues, so it’s worth checking for unexpected changes before you publish.

What to review:

• Layouts display correctly across all breakpoints

• Elements stay aligned and don’t overlap

• Menus and navigation work on all devices

• Tap targets are easy to use and spaced properly

To test this, try one of these methods:

• Use Webflow’s built-in breakpoint preview

• Resize your browser manually or use Chrome’s device toolbar

• Open the live site on actual phones and tablets if possible

• Use a visual testing tool like Sitepager to automate visual checks after updates2. Interactions and animations

Webflow makes it easy to add animations and interactions, but they’re also prone to breaking if not tested properly. Interactions like menus, hovers, and scroll effects aren’t just for polish, they directly impact usability and conversions. If they break, users get stuck or bounce. 

What to review:

• Animations that feel jumpy or out of sync

• Elements that don’t appear when they should

• Interactions that don’t trigger on mobile

To test and fix:

• Test every animation on desktop and mobile

• Use the Interactions panel to debug steps and triggers

• Double-check timing and easing settings if animations feel off

3. Click every link

It sounds simple, but broken links occur more frequently than you might think, especially on larger websites. A page might be deleted, but it may still be linked elsewhere. A slug might change. Or an external site you linked to might go offline. These issues can frustrate users and quietly hurt your search rankings. 

What to review:

• Navigation menus

• Buttons and CTAs

• Footer links and social icons

• Pages that were recently renamed or moved

To test this, try one of these methods:

• Manual testing (great for smaller sites)

• Link checkers like BrokenLinkCheck or Ahrefs

• Sitepager can crawl your entire site and surface broken links automatically

If you find a broken link, update or remove it from Webflow’s Designer or CMS.

4. Check your SEO basics

Missing or incorrect metadata can quietly hurt your visibility in search. You don’t need to be an SEO expert, but a few simple checks can make a big difference. 

What to review:

• Each page has a non-empty, unique title and meta description

• Proper use of heading tags (only one H1 per page)

• Alt text on all images

• Canonical tags if you’re dealing with duplicate pages

To test this, try one of these methods:

• Webflow’s Page Settings panel for individual pages

• SEO tab in Site Settings for global options

• Site-wide tools like Semrush or Sitepager to surface missing titles, meta tags, alt text, and other key SEO issues automatically

Review surfaced missing titles or H1s? Use Webflow’s Page Settings and Designer to fill in those gaps.

5. Confirm that your forms actually work

It’s surprisingly common for forms to stop working, and this often goes unnoticed until users complain.

Confirm:

• Form submits properly

• Thank-you or success messages show up

• Email notifications are reaching the right inbox

• Spam protection is enabled (e.g., reCAPTCHA)

To test this, try the following:

• Submit a test message with fake data to confirm the form works

• Check the inbox and spam folder to ensure you’re receiving notifications

• Review your form settings in Webflow to confirm the correct notification email is set

• Enable reCAPTCHA to reduce spam (if applicable)

6. Check which pages are visible to search engines

You don’t want your staging page indexed, but you do want your "About" page to show up on Google.

To review:

• Meta robots settings for each page

• Webflow’s "Index this page" setting is turned on or off as needed

• Your sitemap includes all important pages

To test this, try one of these methods:

• Google Search Console to test URLs and indexing

• Check your sitemap, usually available at yourdomain.com/sitemap.xml, to make sure all key pages are included.

• Site audit tools, such as Ahref or Sitepager, can highlight which pages are missing from the sitemap.

If a page isn’t indexed, double-check its settings and ensure it's linked from another page and included in your sitemap.

7. Review your content

This one’s easy to skip, especially if you’ve been heads down designing, building, and launching for your team or client. But your audience will notice.

Proofread for:

• Typos and grammar errors

• Placeholder text like lorem ipsum

• Consistent formatting (especially headings)

• Messaging that doesn’t speak clearly to your target audience or Ideal Customer Profile(ICP)

To test this, try one or more of these methods:

• Grammarly or Hemingway

• A second pair of eyes (fresh perspective always helps)

8. Optimize your images

Large, uncompressed images can slow down your website, negatively impacting both user experience and SEO.

What to review:

• Images over 300kb

• Unused high-resolution images

• Formats like PNG when JPG or WebP would do

To fix this, try one or more of these methods:

• Manual compression using TinyPNG or Squoosh

• Chrome’s Lighthouse tool to flag heavy assets

• Webflow’s built-in compression (but don’t rely on it alone)

9. Run a performance and accessibility check

These aren’t just technical extras. They directly affect how fast your site loads and how easy it is to use. That means they can influence whether visitors stick around or bounce. Webflow handles some accessibility basics by default, but it’s still worth verifying the details.

What to test:

• Page load times

• Color contrast and font sizes

• Alt text and ARIA labels

To test this, try one or more of these methods:

• Run Lighthouse audits using Chrome DevTools

• If you want to automate this, Sitepager can optionally run Lighthouse checks as part of its scan.

10. Review your multilingual setup (if applicable)

If your site has multiple language versions, make sure everything is working as expected across them. This isn’t just important for user experience. It can also impact compliance requirements like showing the correct cookie banner, privacy policy, or legal disclaimers for each region.

Check for:

• Proper translations (no leftover text in the wrong language)

• Language switcher works on all devices

• SEO tags like hreflang are implemented correctly

• All versions are indexable and linked properly

• Region-specific content like cookie banners, privacy policies, and disclaimers appear where needed

How to test: In most cases, you’ll need to use a combination of these methods to catch both UX and SEO issues:

• Switch between languages on the live site

• Use Webflow-friendly tools like Weglot or Lokalise

• Check each version in Google Search Console

• Validate hreflang setup using tools like Merkle’s hreflang tester

• If possible, test with a VPN set to each target region—or use built-in geolocation testing in tools like Sitepager to catch regional content issues automatically

Want to check all of this in one go?

If this checklist feels like a lot, you’re not alone. Most people miss at least a few of these items—especially when deadlines are tight.

That’s why we built Sitepager.

It’s a no-code tool that automatically tests your Webflow website. Just enter your URL, and Sitepager will:

• ✔️ Scan every page (even ones not in your sitemap)

• ✔️ Flag internal and external broken links

• ✔️ Catch visual regressions across screen sizes

• ✔️ Test interactive elements like hover menus and click actions

• ✔️ Highlight missing SEO tags like titles and alt text

• ✔️ Run geolocation-based checks to catch regional issues

• ✔️ Report which pages are missing from your sitemap

All of this without any setup or code.

You can also compare your staging and production environments to catch issues before they go live. Or, you can compare your latest update against a baseline to quickly spot what’s changed. Learn how Sitepager helps test Webflow websites.

Your website is often the first place people interact with your brand. It should stay consistent with your design system, work as expected, and support your business goals.

Use this checklist whenever you launch a new site, publish a landing page, or make updates to existing pages.

Start a scan with Sitepager to catch issues early, before they go live or impact your users.