How much content do I have in my CMS?

Quantifying your web content is a useful exercise, especially when you are at the starting point of a CMS or website migration. Doing such an analysis will give insights into the content you have and will also lead to discussions about the quality of that content.

When we talk about the quantity of content in your CMS, we need to be aware that the term ‘content’ covers more than only web pages. It includes the following:

• Recent editorial content published on your website.
• Legacy editorial content is published on your website, but is no longer maintained.
• Images, infographics, schematics, and video.
• MS Office documents, PDFs, images, and downloads.

• Recent editorial content is stored in silo-like repositories, not published to your website.
• Externally generated materials to which your organization owns the intellectual property rights, such as music, films, photography, etc.

3. Internal Information

• Organizational content such as policy documents and procedures.
• Internal communication, such as email, meeting minutes, memos, etc.
• Knowledge systems such as customer databases and collaborative wikis.

Besides insights into these types of web content, a proper migration preparation of a website needs information about the structure of the website, content types (e.g., text, images, video, documents), and metadata as well.

Xillio’s web migration solution offers insights into this type of information and much more for any web content management system. This helps you enhance the quality of your website and eventually increases customer experience.

More about the mapping of the structure and content types from the source to the target system at Erasmus University.