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Legacy CMS Migration to Next.js

Escape Sitecore, TYPO3, Drupal, Joomla & AEM

0%
SEO Loss
Full URL parity + redirects
3–5×
Faster Load Times
vs. legacy CMS
60%
Lower Hosting Cost
Typical annual savings
12+
Platforms Migrated
Enterprise-grade experience
What Is a Legacy CMS Migration to Next.js?

A legacy CMS migration means replacing platforms like Sitecore, TYPO3, Drupal, Joomla, Kentico, or Adobe Experience Manager with a Next.js frontend backed by a headless CMS. Your content, URLs, metadata, and integrations stay intact — what changes is the rendering layer, which moves to React-based static and server-side generation. The result is a site that's faster, more secure, and one your developers actually want to work on.

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Sitecore, AEM, and Kentico licensing alone can run six figures a year That's money going to a vendor, not to building anything.
Legacy monolithic renderers routinely push page load times past 4 seconds Core Web Vitals tank, and organic traffic follows — quarter after quarter.
When your CMS version hits end-of-life, security patches stop coming A single unpatched vulnerability can expose customer data and land you in a compliance nightmare.
Try hiring a TYPO3 or Kentico specialist right now It's a small talent pool, and it's shrinking. Maintenance drags, features take forever, and when someone quits, they take years of institutional knowledge with them.
Every content change becomes an engineering task — a deploy cycle, a cache purge, a ticket in a queue Marketing teams can't move fast when they're waiting on developers to publish a banner.
And while you're stuck in that monolith, competitors are already shipping personalization, A/B testing, and composable features Modern APIs and microservices are off the table when your architecture can't accommodate them.

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Full URL & Redirect Mapping

Every existing URL gets audited, mapped, and covered with 301 redirects. No orphaned pages, no broken backlinks, no traffic falling into a void.

Content Schema Migration

We pull content models out of your legacy CMS and restructure them into a clean headless schema. Relationships, taxonomies, and metadata all come with them.

SEO Equity Preservation

Meta tags, structured data, canonical URLs, sitemaps, internal linking — all rebuilt to match what you had, validated with crawl diffs before and after launch.

Security Hardening

Ditching a server-side CMS shrinks your attack surface considerably. Static pages served from an edge CDN eliminate entire categories of vulnerabilities. API routes get authentication and rate limiting from day one.

Performance Optimization

ISR, static generation, and edge caching get you to sub-second load times. Images run through next/image automatically — modern formats, right sizing, no manual work.

Access Control & Auth

Your existing auth flows and role-based access controls move to modern identity providers. SSO, SAML, OAuth2 — all supported.

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Automated Content Extraction

Custom scripts handle the content extraction. Assets, metadata, database records — none of it requires manual copy-paste.

Headless CMS Integration

We connect Sanity, Contentful, Storyblok, or whatever headless CMS fits your team, with type-safe content models throughout.

Incremental Static Regeneration

Editors can publish instantly without triggering a full redeploy. ISR rebuilds pages on demand — static-site speed, without the static-site publishing headaches.

Component Library Buildout

Every legacy template gets rebuilt as a reusable React component, documented in Storybook, with design system tokens baked in.

Third-Party Integration Rewiring

Analytics, CRMs, marketing automation, e-commerce — everything reconnects through modern API layers. Nothing gets quietly dropped.

Parallel Running & Validation

We run both sites in parallel before cutover, comparing rendered output, SEO signals, and functionality side by side. You don't go live until parity is confirmed.

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01

Platform Audit & URL Inventory

We crawl your existing site and document every URL, content type, integration, and custom module. You get a migration scope document with a real risk assessment before we write a line of code.
Week 1–2
02

Architecture & CMS Selection

Then we design the Next.js architecture, pick the headless CMS, define the content schemas, and map out the redirect strategy. Every technical decision is documented and signed off before anything gets built.
Week 2–3
03

Content Migration & Frontend Build

Content extraction runs via automated scripts while the engineering team builds the component library, page templates, and API integrations in parallel — no waiting on sequential handoffs.
Week 3–8
04

QA, SEO Validation & Parallel Run

Before cutover, we run visual regression tests, crawl comparisons, Lighthouse audits, and stakeholder UAT. Both sites run simultaneously so you can see the parity yourself.
Week 8–10
05

Launch & Decommission

Then DNS cuts over to the Vercel edge network, the legacy CMS gets decommissioned, and we spend 30 days on post-launch monitoring, redirect validation, and performance tuning.
Week 10–12
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Will I lose SEO rankings when migrating from Sitecore or Drupal to Next.js?

Not if the migration's handled properly. We do a full URL inventory, 1:1 redirect mapping, preserve all meta tags and structured data, and run crawl comparisons before and after launch. Most clients actually see ranking improvements within 8 weeks — faster Core Web Vitals scores have a real, measurable effect on organic performance.

How long does a legacy CMS migration to Next.js take?

Typical migrations run 8–12 weeks for sites under 2,000 pages. Larger enterprise sites with complex integrations, multi-language content, or heavily customized modules can take 12–20 weeks. We scope every project individually and lock in a fixed timeline at kickoff — no moving targets.

What happens to my content editors' workflow after migration?

Editors get a modern headless CMS — Sanity or Contentful are common choices — with live preview, visual editing, and structured content models. Honestly, most teams find it faster than what they had. We run training sessions and put together documentation written for your specific content team, not generic how-to guides.

Can I migrate from TYPO3 or Kentico if they use custom extensions?

Yes. Every custom extension, plugin, and module gets audited during discovery. Functionality is rebuilt as Next.js API routes, serverless functions, or third-party SaaS integrations — whatever's the right fit. Everything gets documented, including what it replaces and why.

How much will I save on hosting after migrating away from AEM or Sitecore?

Most enterprise clients cut hosting and infrastructure costs by 50–80%. Sitecore and AEM need dedicated servers, Java runtimes, and expensive licensing on top of that. Next.js on Vercel runs on edge infrastructure with usage-based pricing — usually $500–2,000/month, compared to the five- or six-figure bills legacy hosting typically generates.

Do you handle multi-language and multi-region site migrations?

Yes. We migrate i18n configurations, hreflang tags, locale-specific content, and regional URL structures. Next.js has internationalization routing built in — we configure it to match or improve your existing multi-language setup, including locale detection and fallback handling.

Legacy CMS Migration from $12,000
Fixed-fee. Includes content migration, redirects, and 30-day post-launch support.
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