The Audit
You can’t optimize what you can’t see.
What the audit surfaces
Site count and ownership
Every property you run, and who’s responsible for it.
True total cost
The web spend scattered across departments, added up in one place.
Security gaps
The orphaned sites and aging installs most likely to be exposed.
Enrollment impact
Which properties help prospective students, and which hurt.
The Cost of Sprawl
Mostly invisible, always real.
$2M–$4M
A year.
What a mid-size university typically spends on web infrastructure, invisible because no one has ever added it up.
2x
The real count.
The number of sites is almost always double what anyone at the institution expects.
8 seconds
To decide.
All a prospective student needs to decide your institution feels disorganized.
Why It’s Hard
Three teams, three right answers.
01
IT
Wants stability and security, and fewer things to manage.
02
Marketing
Wants brand control and a consistent experience.
03
Departments
Want the freedom to launch what they need, on their own timeline.
All three are right, which is exactly why the sprawl happens.
Proven in Higher Education
Academic Partnerships
When Academic Partnerships needed to launch and manage personalized university sites without straining IT, we architected a single open-source platform to run all of it.
92%
Reduction in production time
50+
Sites on one platform
22%
Increase in university partnerships
7-figure
Projected savings
Why Crowd Favorite
Delivering Long-Term Digital Success
Through Proven, Client-Focused Solutions
Foundation
2007
Open-source platform architects since day one.
Leadership
1st
The original Enterprise WordPress agency.
Trust
4×
Client relationships that run four times the industry average.
We connect the systems you already have into one platform you can actually manage, and we leave your teams more capable than we found them.
More to Read
Nobody Knows How Many Websites Your University Has
Start Here
Start with an honest inventory.
The right first step is knowing what you actually have, what it costs, and whether it’s helping or hurting your enrollment goals.