Steps Forplanning a website redesign
Conduct user research and analyze your current website
Analysing the current website is the first step in the redesign process. You must know what is wrong with your existing website. There are four components that you need to analyse thoroughly:
Usability
It is important that your potential customers understand the core message of your business the moment they visit your web page and can easily view, use and navigate the website. Website speed, security, a convenient menu, and responsiveness are some of the factors that shape the user experience.
Content
The content of your website is an important part of its design. Understand what your users want to read on your website when redesigning. What new thing do you need to attract users' eyes?
A good content strategy includes data-driven insights, such as user tests, UX reports, heat maps, session recordings, user-cantered views, and tests that focus on the behaviour of prospects. As a website owner, it is natural for you to expect your visitors to process your web page, get the point, and move up the funnel. Plus, your prospects like the information to be relevant, easy to read, and grammatically correct.
Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
Basically, SEO looks at the intent of the user. You won't rank until you meet the intent of the user. Empathy is paramount to getting the right intent from users.
Technically, SEO determines how easily and quickly your customers find your website. The major roadblock for Google crawlers to find your website is when it has graphics without alternate text, poorly used HTML tags, and irrelevant keywords.
It can be helpful to evaluate website SEO through online tools like SEOptimer, Website Grader, etc. to spot some obvious mistakes in your optimization.
Conversion
Your homepage should ensure that the information your prospect is looking for is easily found. If the prospect is bouncing off your home page, you probably don't have the right user persona to engage your target audience.
Every action taken by prospects on the website should be linked to the desired conversion goal.