Web content quantity audit is definitely a precursor to web content migration project. In content migration projects It is very risky to committ to project time,scope,and cost baseline before having full understanding of how much content needs to be migrated to new platform.
Surprisingly, technology teams which spearhead content migration projects, focus on technical delivery and fail to consider the amount of manual work that needs to be done to migrate the actual content of the website.
In most of the website migration or CMS implmentation projects content migration may take upto 80% of the total project implementatoin time. If one has to get the content migration project timeline right, consideration of how much content needs to be migrated to new platform is of immense importance.
You dont do this web content quanityt audit and you are certain to miss your project time deadline , resulting into cost overruns and ultimately project can fail.
Content owners play a crucial role in identifyfing the quantity of the content to be moved to new platform.
Typically, content owners have plans to make some content obsolete and publish some new content.
The web content quanityt audit gives us the number of web pages to be moved, the number and type of digital assets to be moved.
If you are moving from plain non CMS based website or the one which does not use database, finding out how many hyperlinks need to be created in new CMS or new web platform also helps. Probably, in the entire content migration project creating new internal hyperlinks, the links which go to the web pages in the site, can take more time than creating new web pages in new platform or new CMS.
It may also be wise to find out how many documents need to be moved to the new website platform. Here we are talking about word and pdf's. A poorly managed website is loaded with documents (Read as pdf's) which are obsolete but your customers find these obsolete and potentially dangerous documents through your own powerfull web site search engine/application. Finding out how many documents (Read pdf's) to be moved not only helps in understanding content migration scope in detail, but also helps in cleaning up the website from unwanted obsolete documents (Read pdf's).
Well, Depending on your perticular website there could be many more reasons why you should carry out web content quantity audit.
If you want specific information about how Techwest Consulting can carry out Content quanityt audit for your website, please call us on 1300 90 40 50 for further information.