Case Study: Smartshore Ability achieves a scalable, future-proof news site (850,000+ articles, 1M monthly visits) with Strapi

Smartshore Ability developed a media website for rd.nl with over 900 000 articles

Smartshore Ability, a Netherlands-based Strapi Partner and team of international experts in complex product development and DevOps, rebuilt the Reformatorisch Dagblad news website. Facing the need to migrate and manage a huge archive (850,000+ articles), support editorial workflows, and integrate with multiple backend services while remaining future-proof and headless for other channels, the agency selected Strapi as the CMS.

Smartshore Ability implemented Strapi as the central headless CMS, integrating it with 7+ systems including a publishing flow, news supplier feeds, Elasticsearch search, analytics, and login/paywall, and importing 850,000+ articles. The new platform supports 10–15 regular editorial users, uses the Media Library and Draft/Publish/roles features, and now handles about 1,000,000 monthly visits reliably — outcomes enabled by Strapi.

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