Best way to monitor audio for web

99%of my projects are for the web and I've been using studio headphones to monitor my audio levels and balances but lately I've noticed that the headphones may be too precise. Fine tuning balances for reproduction with quality headphones. Now I've been adjusting the audio using external powered studio speakers for balances between VOs, music, ambient noise and interviewer's levels.
Since all of the projects will be viewed on computers or laptops I figured using headphones might be too acurate and went to external speakers. Is this wrong?
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I'd first do a pass with quality monitor speakers, then a review with qualtiy headphones (for fine details you might miss otherwise) and then do a final pass or 2 playing it out as you'd expect it to be monitored in real life, perhaps on laptop speakers. If I'm outputting for the web, I usually do a normalize to 0db to the final mix so it will play as loud as possible.

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