Why Use a Headless CMS Instead of Traditional CMS

2021-11-03

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Choosing between a Traditional CMS and a Headless CMS depends on your needs. A Headless CMS focuses on delivering content via APIs, offering flexibility, scalability, and speed. Traditional CMSs provide built-in templates and are user-friendly for non-tech users. Headless CMSs are ideal for fast performance and adaptable front-ends. They generally offer greater flexibility and efficiency for modern projects.

Make it work, make it right, make it fast. – Kent Beck

Struggling to make your CMS choice, we've got you covered!

Introduction

A frequently asked question, that often is being raised for a new project, is the choice between a traditional CMS VS a Headless CMS. So today we're going to deep dive into it and present the pros of each type. Let's get started.


What Is a Headless CMS

A Headless CMS is a content management system built from the ground-based on all data, rules and structure through an API, rather than focus on the UI. In short terms, the focus is to store and deliver the content not how and where it gets displayed.

The term “headless” comes from the concept of chopping the “head” (the front end, i.e. the website) off the “body” (the back end, i.e. the content repository).

Icons of Back-end API and front-end for headless CMS

Advantages of Headless CMS:

  • UI flexibility (frontend developers can get more creative and build fully customizable UIs)

  • Increase productivity (content creators can work with developers in parallel)

  • Scalability (same content can easily be displayed on multiple platforms web & mobile)

  • Speed (designed to be fast)

  • Secure (backend issues don’t affect the frontend)

What Is a Traditional CMS?

A traditional CMS (content management system) is software used to manage web content. Content creators can choose from existing templates, download plugins and customize styling. The content is stored in a database and displayed to the user based on a template.

Non-technical personnel can use them to manage a website without touching any code.

icons of Back-end and Front-end

Advantages of Traditional CMS

  • Established workflow

  • Ready developed inside the CMS

Benefits

We recommend organisations to use headless CMS if they value:

  • Outstanding Page Load

  • High ranking on all different Search Engines (i.e. higher ranking on Google Search)

  • Set the structure for all content and then work with developing the UI in any other frontend frameworks (for examlple React, Angular and Vue)

  • Cost and time-effective for build-on solutions, such as mobile app etc.

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Conclusion

That's it for the CMS blog post. In summary, Headless CMS is the way to create scalable, secure and fast websites! Any questions or suggestions get in touch by email or Instagram DMs.