Three post-deploy checks I run after every Cloudflare Pages build

Short summary

After debugging production issues (broken sitemaps from redirect rules, race conditions with deploys), the author documents three post-deploy checks: verify sitemap-index.xml accessibility, submit URLs to IndexNow for search engines, and run weekly Lighthouse CI on key pages. Each check targets real failure modes rather than generic best practices, with specific bash examples and outputs for Cloudflare Pages deployments.

• •Sitemap verification catches redirect misconfigurations that hide from browsers but block crawlers
• •IndexNow submission requires immediate post-deploy verification to avoid indexing delays
• •Weekly Lighthouse monitoring tracks performance regressions in static builds without blocking deploys

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