Technical SEO ensures that search engines can easily discover, crawl, render, and index your website pages without friction.
Key Technical SEO Checklist Categories
1. Crawlability & Indexability
- Verify robots.txt isn't blocking critical CSS, JS, or content files.
- Ensure XML sitemap is clean, validated, and submitted in Google Search Console.
- Fix 404 broken links and eliminate 301 redirect chains.
2. Core Web Vitals & Speed
- LCP (Largest Contentful Paint): Under 2.5 seconds.
- INP (Interaction to Next Paint): Under 200 milliseconds.
- CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift): Under 0.1.