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Migration Decision Quiz

Should you migrate?
Let's find out.

8 questions. Under 2 minutes. Get a personalized stack recommendation with timeline, complexity score, and risk factors.

Question 1 of 80%

What platform is your site currently on?

How the migration quiz works

1

Diagnose platform pain

Eight questions assess your current platform across performance bottlenecks, content management friction, security posture, and scalability limits. Each answer is weighted based on how strongly it signals the need for migration versus optimization.

2

Score migration fit

Your answers generate a complexity score and migration urgency rating. High urgency with low complexity means an easy win. High urgency with high complexity means you need to plan carefully. Low urgency means optimization might be the smarter move.

3

Recommend a path

Based on your answers, we recommend the optimal target stack, estimate a realistic timeline, and flag specific risk factors for your situation, like SEO preservation if you have strong organic traffic, or data migration if you have complex content models.

The hidden cost of staying on the wrong platform

Every month you stay on a platform that doesn't fit your needs costs more than the migration would. Not in licensing fees, those are the obvious costs. The real expense is invisible: the developer time spent working around limitations, the content team's frustration with a clunky editor, the traffic you're losing because your pages load in 5 seconds when competitors load in 2, the security vulnerability you're hoping nobody finds before the next patch.

We've tracked migration outcomes across hundreds of projects. Sites that move from legacy WordPress (4.x-era themes with 30+ plugins) to a modern stack typically see a 40-60% improvement in page speed, a 15-25% reduction in bounce rate, and measurable organic traffic growth within 90 days. The common thread isn't that WordPress is bad, it's that outgrowing your platform is expensive when you don't act on it.

The quiz exists because "should I migrate?" is a nuanced question. A site getting 500 monthly visitors with no conversion goals doesn't need Astro and Vercel, a WordPress refresh is fine. But a site doing $200K in annual revenue through organic traffic, running on a platform that can't achieve sub-3-second LCP, has a clear financial incentive to move. The quiz separates these two scenarios so you don't over-invest or under-invest in the decision.

Frequently asked questions

When should you migrate your website?
Consider migrating when your platform is limiting business growth, pages load above 3 seconds despite optimization, your team spends more time fighting the CMS than creating content, security patches consistently lag behind, or you can't implement features your competitors already offer. If you've tried optimization and hit a ceiling, that ceiling is your platform. The cost of staying usually exceeds the cost of moving within 6-12 months.
Will I lose SEO rankings during migration?
Not if done correctly. Proper migration requires comprehensive 301 redirect mapping for every URL, canonical tag preservation, meta data transfer, XML sitemap resubmission, and monitoring in Google Search Console for crawl errors. We've migrated 5,000+ sites with zero ranking loss by following a structured SEO preservation checklist. Rankings typically stabilize within 2-4 weeks and often improve because the new platform has better technical SEO foundations.
How long does a migration take?
Timeline depends on site complexity. A 20-page brochure site migrates in 2-3 weeks. A 200-page content site with custom functionality takes 4-8 weeks. Enterprise sites with multi-language content, custom integrations, and ecommerce need 8-16 weeks. The quiz factors in your content volume, integration complexity, and technical requirements to give you a realistic timeline estimate.
What are the biggest migration risks?
SEO regression from improper redirects is the most costly risk. Content loss from incomplete data mapping is the most frustrating. Functionality gaps where the new platform handles things differently cause the most surprises. Team adoption friction with unfamiliar editing tools creates the most ongoing drag. All of these are manageable with proper planning and a structured migration process, which is why assessment comes before commitment.
What happens to my content during migration?
Every piece of content is mapped, transformed, and imported into the new platform. This includes body text, images, metadata, URL structures, internal links, and SEO attributes. Rich content like tables, embedded media, and custom blocks may need format conversion depending on the target CMS. We validate every page post-migration to confirm nothing was lost or corrupted, automated checks catch the obvious issues, manual review catches the subtle ones.

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