How to Evaluate a CMS — Their Website
If you’re considering a particular Content Management System (CMS) for your own website, first evaluate the maker’s website. Is it great?
You can learn a lot about a particular CMS by examining their own website.
Their website should reflect the very best that is possible with that CMS. So it had better be fantastic!
If you find their website is great, then your website can be great too.
But if their website is not great, then your website cannot be great either. I suggest you avoid that CMS altogether.
Here are two easy ways to test their site:
- SPEED
Is their website speedy? Or slow?
Nowadays, a webpage need to load in less than two seconds. Otherwise people will click away, and search engines will downgrade your site.
That being said, one second is a lot better than two. And less than one second is best.
I find a lot of CMS websites are unacceptably slow. I suggest you do not use a CMS from a slow site.
- MOBILE DEVICES
The majority of web traffic is from mobile devices. Think smartphones and tablets.
So test their site from a smartphone. And a tablet.
- Does the site look great on a smartphone? On a tablet?
- Does the site give you the full navigation structure?
- Are you seeing the full site, or a dumbed-down version?
- Does it look modern, or is it out-of-date?
- Is the font size too small when you use a smartphone?
Originally published on December 25, 2018
Last updated on October 28, 2022
TOPICS: CMS, Website,