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Your TYPO3 Site Costs More Than Your Entire Marketing Stack

If you're an enterprise CMS lead watching TYPO3 burn 40-hour sprints on template updates, you've reached the migration decision point.

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WEB DEVELOPMENT AT A GLANCE
  • Next.js
  • WordPress
  • Sanity
  • Contentful
  • Vercel
  • Node.js
  • 95+LIGHTHOUSE AVG
  • 12+ yrsSENIOR-LED
  • Fixed feeNO SCOPE CREEP
  • 200+PROJECTS SHIPPED
CLUTCH 5.0 VERIFIED

Overview — 01

We migrate enterprise TYPO3 sites to Next.js, WordPress, or headless architectures--your SEO equity, content, and multilingual structures come with you.

TYPO3 Migration

TYPO3 migration is the structured process of moving an enterprise CMS site to a modern architecture such as Next.js or a headless CMS without breaking URL structures, multilingual content, or accumulated search rankings. The work covers content mapping, redirect engineering, front-end rebuild, and zero-downtime cutover. It ends the dependency on TYPO3's TypoScript templating model, which requires specialist knowledge for every content change.

The gap — 02

What is holding your current website back?

Common gaps we find in nearly every audit.

Every template change requires a TYPO3 specialist, turning a two-hour design task into a multi-sprint engagement that blocks the entire content team.
Risk: Development costs compound quarterly while content velocity stays flat, eroding competitive publishing speed across all markets you serve.
Multilingual TYPO3 trees built over years contain nested page structures and language fallbacks that most migration tools silently corrupt or flatten.
Risk: A botched language migration wipes regional SEO rankings that took years to build, with no clean rollback path once the old server is decommissioned.
TYPO3 LTS versions reach end-of-life on fixed schedules, and upgrading major versions often breaks custom extensions without a clear migration path.
Risk: Running unsupported TYPO3 versions exposes the site to unpatched CVEs and locks the organisation into a maintenance contract that delivers no new capability.

Safeguards — 03

How we build this right

Every safeguard, built in from Day 1.

Redirect Coverage Audit

Every existing TYPO3 URL is mapped before cutover. We validate redirect chains against Google Search Console data to ensure no indexed URL returns a 404 post-migration.

Zero-Downtime Cutover Protocol

DNS transitions are staged using blue-green deployment so the legacy TYPO3 instance remains live until the new environment passes acceptance tests and traffic monitoring confirms stability.

Data Integrity Verification

Content counts, metadata, hreflang tags, and structured data are compared between source and destination environments using automated diff reports before any public traffic is shifted.

Scope — 04

What we build

Purpose-built features for your industry.

Multilingual Structure Preservation

TYPO3 language trees, fallback chains, and hreflang relationships are remapped to the target CMS data model before a single piece of content is imported, preventing silent language drops that standard export tools produce.

TypoScript-to-Component Deconstruction

Existing TypoScript templates and Fluid layouts are analysed and rebuilt as typed React or Astro components, giving editors a visual block system that requires no developer involvement for routine content updates.

SEO Equity Transfer

Canonical tags, XML sitemaps, structured data schemas, and meta configurations from the legacy site are carried forward and validated against the original Search Console property before the migration window closes.

Extension Dependency Triage

Custom TYPO3 extensions are catalogued by function, then replaced with native CMS features, third-party integrations, or purpose-built API endpoints so nothing is rebuilt that does not need to be.

Stack — 05

Built on a modern, secure stack

Next.jsWordPressSanityContentfulVercelNode.js

Process — 06

Our development process

From discovery to launch. Quality at every step.

01

Discovery and Content Audit

1-2 weeks

We export the full TYPO3 page tree, catalogue content types, document extension dependencies, and map URL structures against live Search Console data to establish a complete migration scope before any build work begins.

02

Architecture Decision and Environment Setup

1-2 weeks

Based on editorial workflows, traffic volume, and integration requirements, we specify the target stack, configure the new CMS environment, and establish content model parity with the existing TYPO3 structure.

03

Content Migration and Front-End Build

2-4 weeks

Content is migrated in batches with automated validation at each stage. Front-end components are built in parallel, with the editorial team reviewing pages in a staging environment before any redirect rules are published.

04

Cutover, Monitoring, and Handoff

1-2 weeks

DNS is transitioned on a low-traffic window with the TYPO3 instance kept live as fallback for 72 hours. Crawl monitoring and Core Web Vitals baselines are checked daily for two weeks before the project is formally closed.

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Related resources — 07

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Questions — 08

Frequently asked questions

Most TYPO3 to Next.js migrations take 5-8 weeks, depending on content volume, multilingual complexity, and how many custom extensions are in play. A 200-page single-language site typically wraps up in 5 weeks. Enterprise sites with 10+ languages and custom integrations can run 10-12 weeks. We'll give you a detailed timeline during the free assessment.
Not if redirects are handled correctly--and we're obsessive about this. We generate a complete 301 redirect map for every URL on your TYPO3 site, validate it before launch, and monitor rankings for 30 days after cutover. Most clients see rankings stabilize within 2-4 weeks and start improving within 8, driven by better Core Web Vitals on the new platform.
Yes. TYPO3's language tree structure--fallback chains, locale-specific overrides, all of it--gets mapped to your headless CMS's localization model. Sanity, Contentful, and Strapi all handle i18n well. We preserve hreflang relationships and make sure your editors can manage translations without changing how they work.
We audit every installed extension and sort them into three buckets: direct equivalent available, needs a custom rebuild, or no longer needed. Common ones like news, forms, and search get mapped to native features in your new stack. Custom extensions get rebuilt as API routes or serverless functions. You get the full compatibility report before we start.
It depends on your team. WordPress makes sense for organizations that want familiar WYSIWYG editing and a broad plugin ecosystem. Next.js with a headless CMS is a better fit when performance, developer experience, and scalability are the priority. We help you decide based on your content team's technical comfort and what you're actually trying to achieve.
TYPO3 migrations start at $8,000 for straightforward single-language sites under 200 pages. Mid-complexity projects with multilingual content and custom extensions typically run $14,000-$25,000. Large enterprise migrations--10+ languages, thousands of pages, complex integrations--start at $25,000. Every project gets a fixed-fee quote. No surprise invoices.

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