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What Is Website Translation?

Website and marketing translation is the adaptation of content on websites and in marketing collateral from one language to another. Website translation can include translation of several components:

• Web pages
• Blogs
• Media content
• White papers and eBooks
• eLearning materials (e.g. product demos, training videos)

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Frequently Asked Questions

What files should be provided for website localization?

If you are using a content management system (CMS), like WordPress, Adobe Experience Manager, Drupal, Kentico, Sitecore, or many others, ideally you can use your localization provider's integration to automate the extraction of content for translation. If an integration is not available, you should be able to export the content as XML, provide that to your localization partner, and receive localized XML files in return.

If your website is more traditionally created, without relying on a CMS, you can provide HTML, PHP, JavaScript, ASPX, and other source files. As long as user-facing text is clearly delimited it should be easy for a localization provider to identify and extract content for translation.\

Do you recommend a translation management platform, like Smartling?

Yes! Smartling provides integration with many authoring and content management tools, facilities the management of translation projects and updates, and offers greater context to translators. SimulTrans loves working with the Smartling platform, used by many of our clients.

How do we show the right language to users?

You may add code to your website to automatically select a language based on the IP address location or browser locale of a user. As a backup it is helpful to provide a menu of languages (each translated into its own language) to allow a user to select a preference.

How much does website translation cost?

Translation costs vary by language, typically corresponding to the cost of living in the target countries. For example, translation into Simplified Chinese is about a third of the cost of translation into Swedish.

You should expect to receive discounts based on repeated text and leveraging from the translation memory (in essence you only need to pay to translate content once, not again and again for each update).

To try to calculate a rough budget for translation alone, without engineering and testing, we usually recommend the following formula:

Cost = Number of Languages × Number of Words ÷ 4

How long does it take to translate a website?

Translators usually translate about 2,000 words of web content per day. You can generally accommodate almost any required schedule by adding more translators, but this also reduces consistency. SimulTrans has some projects with over 100 translators per language working simultaneously to translate millions of words in a matter of days.

If you are not in a huge rush, we usually recommend limiting your translation team to three translators and two reviewers per language. A group of this size would complete about 6,000 words per day. Since the translators for all languages work simultaneously the number of languages does not have an impact on the schedule.

Aside from translation, there are usually a couple days for set-up and some time required for quality assurance at the end of the project.

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