Migration Difficulty Estimator

Migrate from Custom Code to Gatsby

Stop guessing. Calculate the exact technical difficulty score for moving your specific infrastructure from Custom Code to a modern Gatsby stack.

Platform Baseline Friction

High Friction (10/10) - Migrating from Custom Code involves extracting content from a Custom architecture. Our process handles the mapping of Custom Code's proprietary data structures into clean, structured content ready for Gatsby.

Start Fresh (Pros)

  • ✓ Eliminates Custom Code pain points like "no easy cms".

Migration Risks (Cons)

  • ⚠ Potential SEO risk: Custom Code handles native SEO easier than Gatsby.
  • ⚠ New layout challenge: Build time slowness.

Data Transferability Matrix

✅ Blog Posts & Pages
Automated
Full Automated Export
✅ Images & Media
Automated
Migrated to CDN
❌ Visual Design
Manual
Recreated as Custom Code
❌ Widgets & Logic
Manual
Replaced with Custom Functions
✅ SEO Rankings
Automated
Preserved via 301 Redirects

* Custom Code data structure requires full automated export.

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Platform Comparison

Custom Code
  • Export Difficulty: 10/10
  • SEO Capability: 10/10
  • Speed Score: 10/10
  • Current Limitations:
    • • No easy CMS
    • • Hard for non-techs to edit
    • • Maintenance dependent on dev
    • • High initial cost
VS
Gatsby
  • Export Difficulty: 8/10
  • SEO Capability: 9/10
  • Speed Score: 9/10
  • Why Switch?

    Moving to Gatsby eliminates Custom Code's key weaknesses, specifically: No easy CMS and Hard for non-techs to edit.