05 Gap Analysis

Freedom Road Ministries — Gap Analysis

What’s missing · ranked. Site is ~80% ship-ready · remaining ~20% is mostly client decisions.

CRITICAL — blocks launch

# Gap Owner Unlock
1 Zechariah 12:6-10 verification (was originally typo’d as Zech 17:6-10 · Zech only has 14 chapters) Clark 5 min Bible-reference confirmation
2 Hosting decision (IONOS · Hostinger · Vercel) Clark + Sandi 30 min call
3 Domain DNS configuration for freedomroadministries.org Clark 10 min once host chosen
4 First production deploy Sandi 1 sitting after #2 + #3 close

HIGH — improves launch quality

# Gap Owner Effort
5 Cross-browser QA (Chrome · Firefox · Safari · Edge · mobile Chrome · mobile Safari) Sandi 2-3 sittings
6 Mobile responsive QA on real devices Sandi 1 sitting
7 Lighthouse audit (Performance · Accessibility · SEO targets 90+) Sandi 1 sitting + fixes
8 Resource PDF/DOCX upload (Story Worth Telling · 8 Things · etc.) Clark provides · Sandi uploads Per resource provided
9 Music page YouTube IDs verified (currently has Aaron Shust embedded; confirm others) Clark 30 min

MEDIUM — polish

# Gap Why
10 Author photo on story.html (Clark’s testimony · trust signal) If not present, marketing weaker
11 Email capture / newsletter signup Optional · client decision · Mailchimp or ConvertKit
12 Donation processing (Stripe link or external) Optional · Clark’s decision
13 Speaking engagement booking (Calendly link) Optional · Clark’s decision
14 Analytics setup (Google Analytics 4 · Plausible · Fathom) Clark requests if/when
15 Site search (across pages) Low priority; pages are cross-linked

LOW — defer

# Item Why defer
16 Multi-language (Hebrew · Spanish) English audience first; no signal Hebrew is needed
17 Progressive Web App (PWA) installation Static HTML works fine; no compelling use case
18 Newsletter archive page Until newsletter exists, no archive
19 Member login / gated content Client engagement is non-membership · would expand scope significantly

Closing the critical path

flowchart TD
    A[Today] --> B[Clark verifies Zech 12:6-10]
    B --> C[Hosting call]
    C --> D{Choose host}
    D -->|IONOS| E[DNS to IONOS NS]
    D -->|Hostinger| F[DNS to Hostinger NS]
    D -->|Vercel| G[DNS CNAME to Vercel]
    E --> H[Deploy via cPanel]
    F --> H
    G --> I[Deploy via vercel CLI]
    H --> J[Cross-browser QA]
    I --> J
    J --> K[Lighthouse]
    K --> L[Clark sign-off]
    L --> M[LIVE]

    style A fill:#1F4D4A,stroke:#163A38,color:#fff
    style M fill:#3D7A4E,stroke:#1F4D4A,color:#fff

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