RebelMouse is a cutting-edge CMS and creative agency that teaches media companies and brands how to build content and site experiences for today's dynamic landscape. How does RebelMouse compare to standard CMS solutions like WordPress and Drupal?
WordPress and Drupal are the most well-known and widely used traditional CMSs. Their open-source technology make them popular among a large ecosystem of developers looking to build customized web experiences. But their decentralized model means that each site has to be upgraded and iterated on independently to have the new features, new security, and new performance needed to keep up with the industry. And,
as Drupal users are currently experiencing, being regularly forced to upgrade adds anxiety and uncertainty. This model is much better suited to small bloggers with simpler needs. Which means if your site is your business, running on WordPress or Drupal requires an enormous amount of time and investment for temporary tech resources to cobble together a site using plugins you can't trust and solutions you can't maintain. The end result still doesn't give your content a fighting chance to win SEO, maximize social reach, and see meaningful and sustainable traffic growth.
RebelMouse Is Transforming the Industry
Just as Gmail replaced Microsoft Exchange servers as the modern, go-to email service, RebelMouse is similarly disrupting traditional CMS solutions with a centralized, cloud-based model. The platform was born during the age of social in 2012, and since then our developers, strategists, and traffic experts from across the globe have made it a priority to anticipate industry changes, navigate algorithm updates, and learn new best practices to help our clients seamlessly enjoy competitive advantages.
We constantly monitor industry giants like Google and Facebook so our clients are always set up for success across search and social. With site builds, we optimize for high page speed across mobile and desktop since we know Google heavily penalizes site experiences with poor page speed, as does Facebook, and potential visitors are known to quickly abandon slow pages.
We use industry-leading, reliable approaches from Amazon Web Services (AWS) to host our infrastructure, as well as advanced custom content delivery network (CDN) configurations designed to provide maximum stability, scalability, speed, and security for our clients across the globe.
These kinds of processes require massive time and monetary investments on a WordPress or Drupal setup. But with RebelMouse, every feature update, infrastructure improvement, and security patch is pushed live to all of our clients at once without interruption. Our tech is lean and always iterating, which means investing less money in an all-encompassing solution that fuels more growth.
The Right Product for All Teams
We've proudly built a product that actually achieves the goals that CMOs, CEOs, and CTOs need their digital product to fulfill. Our authoring tools make editorial, audience development, and social teams efficient and savvy, thanks to our proprietary technology that's been engineered to optimize content across platforms. Likewise, our analytics tools make your marketing and strategy teams feel happy and supported. We give them digestible data to understand and better optimize content for strategies that drive meaningful traffic. Our design tools appeal to product and revenue teams because of our next-level customization control and flexibility within site design and performance. And our platform is a developer-friendly solution for engineers to deliver far better results to their companies without straining tech resources.
When your site is your business and content is crucial to your bottom line, RebelMouse provides the right tools at your disposal so your teams always have an advantage when building site experiences and maximizing reach anywhere audiences may be discovering content.
Our Formula for Growth Works
The value of RebelMouse's modern approach is clear once you look at the data. Compare the following Google PageSpeed Insights scores among brand-owned media sites. Keep in mind, we've set 60 as a benchmark score given
how Google's own sites and apps perform.
The WordPress and Drupal sites have difficulty reaching the benchmark These types of scores will hurt brands trying to maximize organic reach and engagement.
More importantly, our attention to factors like page speed help media companies and brands see growth across all key metrics once they make the move to RebelMouse.
For this client, the move from WordPress to RebelMouse has caused immediate growth in reach and loyalty.
This client moved from a "good enough" CMS over to RebelMouse. For more than a year they were stuck with either no growth or declining. Since moving to RebelMouse, the growth has been incredible.
Introduce the Solution That Makes You a Hero
We're excited that our product is tightly configured and delivers such an enormous advantage for teams. Switching to RebelMouse is a no-brainer compared to the lifetime cost of trying to maintain your WordPress or Drupal setup — and we can move you over quickly or enable you to move yourself over quickly.
If you currently use Drupal, you're likely aware of the mandate forcing clients to migrate onto Drupal 8 by 2021 and
may be questioning whether it's worth it. Instead of being stressed, view this as the perfect opportunity to make the leap to RebelMouse.
We're also opening up RebelMouse to a larger ecosystem of developers so, if you're a developer, definitely get in touch with us. If you work with companies whose businesses and growth rely on their content, you can give more with RebelMouse. You can solve problems with us that would cost a tremendous amount of time and energy to attempt to solve with WordPress or Drupal. With RebelMouse, you'll be the hero as you introduce your teams to the modern solution that keeps everyone innovative, efficient, and happy. Contact us today to learn more.
Our platform is a complete digital publishing toolbox that's built for modern-day content creators, and includes game-changing features such as our:
Why RebelMouse?
Unprecedented Scale
RebelMouse sites reach more than 120M people a month, with an always-modern solution that combines cutting-edge technology with decades of media savvy. And due to our massive scale, 1 in 3 Americans have visited a website powered by RebelMouse.
120M+ Users
550M+ Pageviews
17+ Avg. Minutes per User
6+ Avg. Pages per User
Today's Top Websites Use RebelMouse
Thanks to the tremendous scale of our network, we are able to analyze a wealth of traffic data that informs our strategies and allows us to be a true strategic partner instead of just a vendor.
What Clients Say
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your digital presence. Spend less time managing everything yourself, and more time focused on
creating the quality content your users deserve.
From start to finish,
RebelMouse blasted away our expectations!
Kelley Beaucar Vlahos
Editorial Director
Responsible Statecraft
RebelMouse
brings the strengths of a large publisher (large datasets, expertise, lessons learned from trial and error, close
relationships with search and ad platforms) to smaller publishers. During the build and launch, the team went above
and beyond to ensure we were happy with the new site, and
they flawlessly migrated over 20,000 articles. I can't recommend them highly enough.
Ryan Koo
CEO
No Film School
I love the control panel. Awesome work. I have to say, what an amazing creative team RebelMouse is. I am so grateful!
Terrence O'Hanlon
Founder and Chairman
Reliabilityweb
It’s like we’ve been riding horses to commute all our lives and someone just showed us a Tesla.
Brendan Farley
Vice President, Product Management
Strada Education Network
Thanks to RebelMouse, United doesn’t have to sacrifice great content for speed. You can have both!
Ryan Bujeker
Director, Social Media Strategy & Digital Engagement
United Airlines
We're in a much better position to make it through the current crisis in part due to RebelMouse and their platform.
We've not only saved on overhead costs, we've more easily optimized our traffic with their smart measuring and SEO
tools, as well as their social integrations.
Jill Braff
President/Chief Operating Officer
Brit + Co
THANK YOU for all the good, fast work you put into making our public rollout such a big success. I know we threw a lot
at you very quickly, but you were calm under pressure and pulled it all off perfectly. Very glad to be working with
you all.
Tim Grieve
Executive Editor
Protocol
So inspired and impressed by these results from RebelMouse. Check them out and ask Andrea Breanna how they got there!
Just goes to show that spending millions doesn't necessarily get you to the right destination. It's spending no more
than you need on the right technology with the right platform that does! 🌐💙🏎️
Andrey Lipattsev
Partner Development Manager
Google
It is not often I jump out of my chair and scream in a positive way, but I just did! This is the happiest I have seen
my Managing Editor in 2021! Thank you.
Nick Smith
CEO
Investing News Network
Working with RebelMouse is an actual treat. From the CEO down, every single member of the team has partnered with us
to meet our needs. Everyone willingly (and with endless patience!) shares their expertise and insights to ensure we
optimize search and create a great audience experience. As we have implemented the various search tactics, positive
results are almost instantaneous. Training our content creators has been simple. The system is incredibly user
friendly. As a co-worker commented, "RebelMouse doesn't just sell you something, they partner with you to deliver
exactly what you want." I couldn't agree more!
Emma Schofield
Director of Change Management
Investing News Network
We continue to be huge fans of RebelMouse and envision a very long-term relationship with the platform. The service
has been impeccable.
Douglas Fischer
Executive Director
Environmental Health News
I am a HUGE RebelMouse fan, and basically tell everyone I meet who's looking to overhaul their website to get in touch
right away.
Susan Hassler
Editor Emeritus
IEEE Spectrum
Every member of the RebelMouse team, but especially our project team, are superstars! Our site launch on the platform
met all our expectations and we love the technology. We are positive about the future of our site and look forward to
improving our approaches and processes with RebelMouse's guidance!
Terrence O'Hanlon
Founder and Chairman
Reliabilityweb
RebelMouse's Layout & Design Tool is one of the most comprehensive and flexible tools I have ever used of any CMS.
Their product team is also extremely helpful and constantly supports to make sure your properties are up to date and
use the best industry standards, especially in terms of page speed.
Chuck Lapointe
CEO
Narcity Media
The best thing about RebelMouse is how much they care about their customers. When working with them, I always get a
sense that they go above and beyond for their customers. When working with the RebelMouse team, I very much consider
them to be a partner, rather than just a vendor. Upon migrating to their technology, we have seen tremendous
improvements in many key areas, particularly technical SEO. They have out-of-the-box functionality that is
tremendously helpful to customers. At the same time, their system is flexible enough to allow us to adapt it to any
new business needs that we have.
David Nguyen
Senior Director of Digital Marketing
Investing News Network
RebelMouse has shepherded us through the modernization phase, and has been keen, practical, and nimble throughout the
entire journey. They have helped modernize our website through an infinite scroll setup that allows us more
advertising real estate while creating more time on site to capture reader engagement. Plus, the RebelMouse team has
helped educate our own team on the various aspects of programmatic advertising and worked to best implement them.
Premier Guitar joining forces with RebelMouse in 2020 was one of the best choices we could have made!
Luke Viertel
Digital Strategist
Premier Guitar
RebelMouse has stepped up our content management process by providing a user-friendly interface, robust customization
options, and seamless collaboration tools. The platform's analytics and reporting capabilities have empowered us to
make data-driven decisions, while their exceptional customer support ensures any issues are promptly addressed in a
professional, respectful, and friendly way!
RebelMouse employs a unique, diverse, and decentralized team that consists of 70+ digital traffic experts across more
than 25 different countries. We have no central office, and we cover every time zone to ensure that we’re able
to deliver amazing results and enterprise-grade support around the clock.
Our team is well-versed in all things product, content, traffic, and revenue, and we strategically deploy ourselves to
help with each element across all of our clients. We thrive on solving the complex.