2018 Sitefinity Website of the Year Awards
Since its inception in 2011, the Sitefinity Website of the Year Awards have been recognizing websites powered by Progress Sitefinity for creativity, design, user experience, functionality and overall website presentation.
Meet the Winners
Multisite
Greenheck
Sitefinity helped ensure visitors get where they want to go. Huge impact on metrics: Avg# Leads increased by 150%, Avg # Site Visits – up 50%, Avg Time on Site: increased by 62%, Avg Bounce Rate: decreased by 84%. In multisite with www.accurex.com.
Implemented by The Greenheck Group
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Ecommerce
Weaver Leather
Includes integration with SmarterCommerce, JD Edwards EnterpriseOne ERP, SnapEngage chat, Power Reviews, Pixlee, SLI Enterprise learning search, Hubspot. In multisite setup with four other brands under the Weaver family.
Implemented by Premier Group
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Financial Services
Lead Bank
Utilizing Sitefinity’s headless CMS capabilities. Improved SEO metrics – better ranking in search results, higher organic traffic with by appx. 1,000 more users, YoY. Call numbers have dropped as more questions can now be answered on the website.
Implemented by ZIV
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Healthcare
Change Healthcare
Integrated with Eloqua, Coveo, VidYard, Analytics Ninja. Over 90% YoY increase in all website traffic after launch, acquiring 1.6 million visits; +100% YoY increase in organic traffic; +70% YoY increase in pageviews; +250% increase in search visibility.
Implemented by Americaneagle.com
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Education
Nyenrode Business University
Integrated with Click Dimensions, ADFS, GTM, and the Nyenrode alumni app. Significant improvements in SEO metrics, YoY: Mobile sessions up 40%, Users up 131%; Sessions up 108%; Page views up 115%; Bounce rate dropped 60%.
Implemented by Fenêtre online solutions
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Public Sector
City of Lecce
Load-balanced website, utilizing approval workflows, content localization and personalization capabilities. High customer satisfaction. Integrated with Google Analytics, Facebook and Telegram, as well as a custom internal application.
Implemented by Co.M.Media srl
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Manufacturing
Alumil
Serving different content to different regions, thanks to Sitefinity Insight, which allowed setting different personas and personalizing content. YoY, unique pageviews increased 15%, time on site increased 20%, bounce rate decreased 30%.
Implemented by DOPE STUDIO
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Services
Ag-Pro Companies
The site makes use of Sitefinity’s workflows, personalization and extensibility capabilities, as well as Sitefinity Insight for content analysis. Large increase in form submissions, calls and traffic after launch, reduced bounce rate.
Implemented by Team SI
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Technology
Blackbaud
Powering websites for North America, UK and Pacific region (soon). Integrated with Marketo, Coveo, BoldChat, UberFlip and SSO. Impressive YOY analytics since launch: New users +49%, Sessions +27% and +106% growth in top 3 keyword positions.
Implemented by Americaneagle.com
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Associations & Non-profit
World Health Organization
Features integrations to various systems, including other CMS systems, Duraspace document repository system, Power BI, AWS CloudFront. Utilizes Sitefinity Insight. Improved audience engagement, broader user base and higher ranking in search results.
Implemented by Siili Solutions
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Sports & Entertainment
Virgin Active
Multiple integrations. Enhanced customer experience with 75% of users rating it 4/5 or above for how well it represented their club; 79% rated it 4/5 or above for ease of use; 35% increase YOY in web leads submitted. Hosted in Microsoft Azure.
Implemented by Equator
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Travel & Tourism
Crystal Cruises
Decreased dependency on IT. Increased speed at which marketing can execute digital campaigns. Integrated with Salesforce Community, Versonix Seaware, Mapbox, Live View Feeds from Ships at Sea, Crystal Cruise’s trip booking web application.
Implemented by Americaneagle.com
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Graphic Design
MAN Energy Solutions
Favorably received by all stakeholders as well as the public. Several hundred documents from an external system are synchronized into Sitefinity. An expanded search facility spanning both legacy and new sites is provided by AddSearch.
Implemented by MAN Energy Solutions and Netspectrum
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Meet the Finalists
Multisite
Greenheck
Sitefinity helped ensure visitors get where they want to go. Huge impact on metrics: Avg# Leads increased by 150%, Avg # Site Visits – up 50%, Avg Time on Site: increased by 62%, Avg Bounce Rate: decreased by 84%. In multisite with www.accurex.com.
Weaver Leather
Includes integration with SmarterCommerce, JD Edwards EnterpriseOne ERP, SnapEngage chat, Power Reviews, Pixlee, SLI Enterprise learning search, Hubspot. In Multisite setup with four other brands under the Weaver family.
QAA
In multisite with two other websites, covering different aspects of QAA’s work. Features content in Welsh, utilizing Sitefinity’s support for language variations. More than 20% of visitors using tablets or mobile devices.
Ecommerce
Weaver Leather
Includes integration with SmarterCommerce, JD Edwards EnterpriseOne ERP, SnapEngage chat, Power Reviews, Pixlee, SLI Enterprise learning search, Hubspot. In Multisite setup with four other brands under the Weaver family.
Best Plumbing Specialties
Integrated with ROC Commerce and Epicor Prophet 21. Features include real-time calls for customer-specific pricing, functionality for multiple accounts per customers, real time tax calculation, punchout integration and more.
Reinders
One-page checkout, guest check out, real-time inventory availability and much more coming with the integration of ROC Commerce. Personalized pricing and payment/shipping options for B2B and B2C customers, driven by the tight integration with SX.e.
Financial Services
Axis Bank
Includes more than 4000 pages. Site Sync is widely used to allow moving new pages to production daily. Integrated with Vizury, AHA Chatbot, Akamai. Improved SEO metrics – increase in number of sessions and in number of pages per session, decrease in bounce rate.
Lead Bank
Utilizing Sitefinity’s headless CMS capabilities. Improved SEO metrics – better ranking in search results, higher organic traffic with by appx. 1,000 more users, YoY. Call numbers have dropped as more questions can now be answered on the website.
RGF Integrated Wealth Management
Lots of customizations, both front-end and back-end, done with ease thanks to Sitefinity’s out of the box ASP.NET MVC support. Improved SEO metrics – total sessions increased 20%, number of visitors up 15%, average session length up 20%.
Healthcare
Change Healthcare
Integrated with Eloqua, Coveo, VidYard, Analytics Ninja. Over 90% YoY increase in all website traffic after launch, acquiring 1.6 million visits; +100% YoY increase in organic traffic; +70% YoY increase in pageviews; +250% increase in search visibility.
Lakeland Health
Various integrations, including Cactus (Medical Credentialing), Staywell Health Content. Utilization of Sitefinity’s headless CMS capabilities, workflows, load balancing, site sync. Visitors from mobile devices are now 50% of all users vs. 34% previously.
MED-EL
Integrated with memoQ Translation Management Software and Salesforce Marketing Cloud to allow import/export for memoQ and forms triggering email sends and subscriptions in the marketing cloud. Load-balanced.
Education
Futures Academy
Utilizing Sitefinity’s personalization and multichannel management capabilities. Integrated with Pardot, Zapier, Heroku, Juicer. Both increases in site traffic and form fills have been seen since launch.
Nyenrode Business University
Integrated with Click Dimensions, ADFS, GTM, and the Nyenrode alumni app. Significant improvements in SEO metrics, YoY: Mobile sessions up 40%, Users up 131%; Sessions up 108%; Page views up 115%; Bounce rate dropped 60%.
Pennsylvania Bar Institute
For their new website, PBI seamlessly integrated Sitefinity CMS with Aptify and Hawksearch to greatly improve user experience, particularly with their product catalog and search.
Public Sector
Arkansas Economic Development Commission
After launch, AEDC saw a large increase in inquiries and leads from the site. SEO metrics improved as well: bounce rates dropped 60%, YoY; average time on site increased over 100%; unique page views increased over 60%.
Third Judicial Circuit of Michigan
The site had almost 1.2 million users and 4.7 million page-views during 2018. One of the very few websites to provide online services for the case management of a court’s docket. Integrated with Odyssey Case Management System.
City of Lecce
Load-balanced website, utilizing approval workflows, content localization and personalization capabilities. High customer satisfaction. Integrated with Google Analytics, Facebook and Telegram, as well as a custom internal application.
Manufacturing
Plaskolite
Catalogue driven website with a large data storage requirement. Sitefinity’s scalability and flexibility helped tremendously for the ongoing management of the website. Integrated with a custom lead dashboard solution.
Alumil
Serving different content to different regions, thanks to Sitefinity Insight, which allowed setting different personas and personalizing content. YoY, unique pageviews increased 15%, time on site increased 20%, bounce rate decreased 30%.
Werner
Integrated with Pricespider, BazaarVoice, Salesforce and PIM. Utilizing many out-of-the-box features including roles and permissions, headless CMS capabilities, localization, site sync, load balancing.
Services
Uitelkaar.nl
Attracted 84,000 visitors and 1,000 paying customers in 2018, their first year of existence. Integrated with Be Informed - for dynamic case management, and Mollie -for payment services. Clients rate their service with 8/10.
Ag-Pro Companies
The site makes use of Sitefinity’s workflows, personalization and extensibility capabilities, as well as Sitefinity Insight for content analysis. Large increase in form submissions, calls and traffic after launch, reduced bounce rate.
Lehigh Hanson
Since releasing the site in March 2018, the company has seen about 43% YoY increase in traffic; location accuracy is higher than ever before; RFQ submissions (conversion) has been growing exponentially. Integrated with Google Maps.
Technology
Lumina
Integrated with Google Analytics and HubSpot. Compared to the first 90 days post-launch, day 91-180 showed significant increases in KPIs across the board: Sessions up 24.22%, New Users up 24.41%, Session Duration up 31.26% and Pageviews up 35.36%.
Blackbaud
Powering websites for North America, UK and Pacific region (soon). Integrated with Marketo, Coveo, BoldChat, UberFlip and SSO. Impressive YOY analytics since launch: New users +49%, Sessions +27% and +106% growth in top 3 keyword positions.
IANS
By implementing Sitefinity, IANS had the opportunity to measure where leads are coming from on the website. Custom integrations with Pardot, SFDC, and events management software. New Users up 25%, Sessions up 28%, and Session Duration up 20%.
Associations & Non-profit
World Health Organization
Features integrations to various systems, including other CMS systems, Duraspace document repository system, Power BI, AWS CloudFront. Utilizes Sitefinity Insight. Improved audience engagement, broader user base and higher ranking in search results.
ACSM
Integrated with iMIS AMS. Utilizing the Sitefinity personalization capabilities. The new site enjoys more users (9% more YoY), visiting more often, exploring more pages (pageviews per session increased 51%).
American Payroll Association
After implementing Sitefinity CMS for their new website, they measured a stunning 100,000 more sessions, a rise of 33% from the same month last year. Sessions per user is also up 39% with page views being up 34% overall.
Sports & Entertainment
Virgin Active
Multiple integrations. Enhanced customer experience with 75% of users rating it 4/5 or above for how well it represented their club; 79% rated it 4/5 or above for ease of use; 35% increase YOY in web leads submitted. Hosted in Microsoft Azure.
Packers 100 Seasons
Sitefinity checked all the boxes for Green Bay Packers. The 100 Seasons microsite showcases their team’s history in a user-friendly way, while letting them enjoy the level of control and ease of use they need.
Virgin Active RED
Virgin Active RED had specific requirements for the blog module that were answered by Sitefinity’s rich customization capabilities. With the new CMS they can now easily integrate marketing intelligence, e-commerce and external data sources.
Travel & Tourism
Crystal Cruises
Decreased dependency on IT. Increased speed at which marketing can execute digital campaigns. Integrated with Salesforce Community, Versonix Seaware, Mapbox, Live View Feeds from Ships at Sea, Crystal Cruise’s trip booking web application.
Quest Apartment Hotels
Multiple integrations to help streamline the booking process and assist users in making informed booking decisions, including Salesforce, SiteMinder, Zomato, Australian Tourism Data Warehouse, Trip Advisor. Utilizing Sitefinity Insight.
Cuba Travel Network
Shortly after launch, the site saw a tremendous 40% rise in direct leads for their tailor-made tours service. With Sitefinity, content management now takes half the time it used to for their marketing team.
Graphic Design
Arium
Reduced marketing team's dependency on developers, which coupled with Sitefinity’s robust SEO capabilities lead to a significant increase in the domain authority and a major SEO boost.
Kalpataru
A recipient of several global awards in design and quality for its own real estate projects, Kalpataru needed an aesthetic website with enhanced user experience that’s easy to use and maintain, while being SEO-friendly.
MAN Energy Solutions
Favorably received by all stakeholders as well as the public. Several hundred documents from an external system are synchronized into Sitefinity. An expanded search facility spanning both legacy and new sites is provided by AddSearch.