CMS Migration Checklist: This Is What Professionals Do in 2020

WEBSITEMIGRATIONCHECKLIST2020How to migrate as smooth as possible

What is Website

Migration?

THE TRANSFERRING

PROCESS CAN BE

AUTOMATED , WHICH

WILL SAVE YOU A HUGE

AMOUNT OF TIME

IT IS ABOUT CHANGING CMS PLATFORM .

SO HERE IS 3-PHASE CHECKLIST TO MAKE

YOUR CMS MIGRATION PERFECT .

BUT YOU STILL HAVE TO PREPARE

Pre

-Migra

tion

Pre

para

tions

PREPARE THE NECESSARY

TOOLS /SERVICES

Automating various migration-related

tasks can save you a great deal of time

and effort.

PLAN TO MIGRATE

DURING A SLOW PERIOD

Avoid losing any traffic, it’s important to

make sure that if you do lose traffic, you

lose it when business is already slow.

CRAWL YOUR WEBSITE

You need to crawl your old website and

get complete data of all URLs, page titles,

meta data, redirects, broken links, etc.

01

Data Transfer Tips

Map the data

02

Test your migration

Set up target system

Transfer the content

Make system changes

Based on the results of the test

migration, make any required

changes to your system configuration,

migration method, or data.

Think of what has to be done on a

new CMS before transferring the

content into it.

Testing is a key element of every

migration project. Select a large enough

data sample and perform a trial

migration to spot any possible errors or

defects.

Consider the data architecture on the

source and target systems, identify

differences, and decide how you want to

approach them.

Manual Content Migration

It involves a person or team of people doing the work of

copying and pasting a site’s content from one platform to

another.

- Human capital is costly.

- As with anything that people touch, the potential for

human error exists.

-For large amounts of content, manual migration is

simply not feasible.

Automated Migration

This method is obviously better:

- You won't lose anything.

- It provides the possibility to easily map your

migration entities.

- You can test the process and secure the whole

process with the migration insurance.

-Additional options you may include 301 redirects,

SEO URLs, metadata, attachments, etc.

You can choose :

Post-Migration Suggestions

Observe Search Console Crawl & Server Logs

Once you went live, you should closely observe the crawl stats that are now

available in the Search Console. For the first 2-3 weeks, you should keep an eye

for reported crawl errors from your tools and take necessary actions (such as

implementing 301 redirects on all possible 404 errors).

03

Perform data and system optimization

No matter how thorough your preparation was, there will surely be a few

things you will have to adjust after the data transfer.

Measure Website Speed

Every millisecond counts, so you need to review closely. Every webmaster

knows that fast site speed is an SEO ranking signal across the devices.

The 5 Most Popular CMS

Platforms

WordPress51.1%

Other32.5%

Wix7.2%

Squarespace3.7%

Drupal1.2%

JOOMLA!

SQUARESPACE

WIX

WORDPRESS

Are you still thinking what to choose?

CMS Market Share 2019

DRUPAL

BLOGGER

OTHER

Drupal Joomla WordPress

100%

75%

50%

25%

0%

Top 3 CMS Platforms,

users decided to move to

WORDPRESS

DRUPAL

JOOMLA

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TRANSFER ALL OF YOUR

DATA AUTOMATICALLY !

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BUT STILL HESITATE?

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WEBSITE MIGRATIONS ARE HARD ENOUGH BY DEFAULT ! AND THERE ’S NO

NEED TO MAKE THEM HARDER BY DOING ALL THE WORK BY YOURSELF .