5 New Year’s Resolutions for Your CMS You Can Set – and Keep
Take control of your CMS for 2025...and beyond.
Happy New Year from Agility CMS. We hope your 2025 is successful, prosperous, and rewarding.
When it comes to content management systems (CMS), consider this stat:
Imagine putting all that effort into creating content, only to have its effectiveness limited by the CMS that houses and the front-ends that present it. What a waste.
A new year always brings about New Year’s Resolutions. If your CMS isn't getting the job done, here are resolutions you should make – and keep – for your content management system.
1. Declutter, Declutter, Declutter
Review the pages within your CMS and sort them into three categories:
- Keep: Content that’s up-to-date and relevant.
- Delete: Duplicate or irrelevant content.
- Update: Pages requiring fresh content, better visuals, or improved information.
Apply this process to untouched draft pages too.
Just like an overflowing closet makes it hard to find clothes, a cluttered CMS slows performance and makes it harder for your team to find stuff inside. Clean your CMS and see just how better things are.
2. Check Its Security
The average 2024 data breach cost $4.88 million (USD) and took 277 days (almost 75% of the calendar year) to detect and contain. If you’re hacked, can you afford either cost?
Cybersecurity threats are evolving, and your CMS must keep up. Here’s how you can protect your system:
- Upgrade to a more modern front-end framework or headless CMS.
- Implement role-based access control (RBAC), single sign-on (SSO), and multi-factor authentication (MFA) to manage who enters your CMS and how.
Know how much space a mouse needs to squeeze into your home? Just 1/4th of an inch. Know how much time a hacker needs to crack an 8-character password? Only 37 seconds. The mouse doesn’t need much space. The hacker doesn’t need much time. But the damage both can cause is well and truly awful.
3. Integrate Analytics
Is your website doing its job?
If not, then it’s leaking revenue. And you probably don’t even know it. Consider these statistics for site speed:
- Sites loading in one second make 30.5 sales per 1,000 visitors
- Sites loading in five seconds make 10.8 sales per 1,000 visitors
- Slow sites cost businesses $2.6 billion (USD) annually
Analytics track bounce rates, time on page, and clickthrough rates. They pinpoint strengths and weaknesses, thus enabling smarter, data-driven decisions.
Imagine your car without its dashboard. You wouldn’t know if it’s low on gas, or due for an oil change. It’s like your website. Without analytics, you won’t know if it’s efficient and profitable, or broken and costly.
4. Predict Business Growth, Plan for CMS Scalability
Hopefully, 2025 will be full of growth for your business. Can your content management system scale up to keep up? Ask yourself:
- Will it be able to handle increased traffic?
- Can it support additional integrations?
- Will website performance drop as more content and assets are added?
- Can massive rollouts be deployed without slowing or breaking anything?
- Will be able to support additional users?
Unlimited scalability ensures your website is prepared for future expansion without any technical hiccups. The last thing you want is to plan an amazing content or website refresh, only to discover your CMS isn’t up to the task.
5. Migrate to a Headless CMS
Planning to extend your content initiatives to mobile apps, IoT devices, and more? That’s a great resolution. It can be a profitable one, too. Omnichannel customers spend 30% more than single-channel customers and businesses that implement omnichannel strategies retain 89% of their customers.
What’s the easiest way to go from single channel to omnichannel? With a headless CMS.
What is Headless CMS?
Headless CMS separates what appears on screen (“the head”) from the backend where the content sits (“the body”). Developers use APIs to deliver content to any platform, enabling omnichannel experiences. Marketers can easily manage content from the backend without needing or using code.
Picture your car. Picture five keys – one for each door. The hatch key doesn’t open the driver’s door. The rear passenger key doesn’t open the front passenger door. One key to open them all is much better.
Same goes for your website. You could have one dedicated website for desktop, another for mobile, another for IoT, and so forth. Or just manage it all with a headless CMS.
Additionally, headless CMS websites can be continuously improved in terms of performance and analytics, since the frontend is separate from the CMS.
Agility CMS Can Help You Keep Your 2025 Resolutions
The new year has begun. It’s the perfect time to start enacting your CMS resolutions.
Agility can help you keep them. The Agility platform has the tools and functionality to make content creation and organization easier. When you’re ready to start, we are too:
- Book a Demo: Get your own personal, guided tour of Agility.
- Start Your FREE Trial: Try before you buy with a 30-day trial of Agility.
- Talk to Us: Use our chat feature to connect with a person – yes, really – to answer all your questions.
About the Author
Mauro Flammini is the Content Manager at Agility CMS. He has over 20 years of content marketing experience, including for international brands such as Research In Motion and Intuit. He lives in Hamilton, ON with his wife, two daughters, and one dog.
