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“We are very impressed with GlobalVision’s professional approach to localization. Our product-update localization efforts and costs have gone down by as much as 30%.”
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Enabling Globalization
Localizing your website?
InfoMail, Q4-2006
GlobalVision International, Inc.
Unlike the early and mid-90’s when English-only publishers and websites dominated the World Wide Web, the new millennium has truly turned the web worldwide!
According to Nielsen/NetRatings, there are currently 10 languages used by roughly 81% of the 1.05 billion worldwide internet users. These languages, in descending order, are English (30%); Chinese (13.8%); Japanese (8.3%); Spanish (7.5%); German (5.6%); French (4.4%); Korean (3.2%); Portuguese (3.1%); Italian (2.8%); and Russian (2.3%).
While doing business on the web in English is still safely the lead choice, given the above numbers, the potential for international opportunities are very appealing. This is why many companies are proactively performing web page translation into multiple languages.
If your company has tasked you to investigate, before you plunge into the process, consider the below.
What languages to translate into?
Each company should study the location and habits of its own web visitors and evaluate its strategic geographical plans for growth. Once you know what geographies to target, you can easily determine the languages that you need. This could be French and German for Europe, for example, or Spanish for the USA.
How much to budget?
Having determined the needed languages, try to identify the budget within which you need to operate. If the budget drives the requirements, there are different cost reduction techniques that you can follow to maximize the value of your efforts.
It may not be possible to estimate the cost of localizing a website by simply browsing it. Since websites can be dynamic (ASP/PHP/SQL-based) and not just static (HTML-based), an effort to collect the physical assets — databases, images, Flash, Java scripts, HTM, ASP, PHP, PDFs and all other source files requiring localization — is essential before an accurate estimate can be generated. Once the files are collected, go through them to identify the best strategy for each:
Once you have all the files requiring localization identified, use this simple formula to come up with an estimated localization budget: First, count the words that need translation. Next, multiply the word count by the number of languages needed, then divide by three. (If you cannot count the words, your technical translation services vendor will do it for you, usually at no cost.)
To give you an idea, an average website has about 100 pages and can cost roughly $5,000 per language to localize. This usually includes the following:
(Note: Companies seriously considering web page translations often host larger-than-average websites).
How often to synchronize languages?
Since websites are very organic in nature and are constantly changing, you should decide how frequently you should update the translated pages, and how closely they should be synchronized with the source.
With the advent of content management solutions and translation memory databases, technology permits anywhere from infrequent updates (monthly, quarterly or yearly) to as frequent as daily updates. It is only a matter of how much time and money you are willing to invest in the processes and the technology.
Luckily, translation memory tools enabling easy translation reuse are abundant and not costly. Any localization professional that you decide to work with should be able to provide you with at least the ability to store the translations in a database for easy updates and retrieval. This makes monthly updates feasible with minimal overhead to the overall localization costs.
Content management solution integration with concurrent localization will add a significant amount of costs to acquire, implement, integrate, customize and operate. This option should be considered only when weekly or daily website updates in more than one language are required, and when a six-figure budget for tools and setup (excluding localization costs) is not a constraint.
Not as easy as it sounds?
Addressing worldwide web users’ needs with an international website is not an easy undertaking. This is why you need to think seriously about involving professional language translation services early in the process.
At GlobalVision, our experienced staff will be more than glad to consider your needs and offer you advice and guidance. After you’ve collected the files needing localization and identified your requirements, we can quickly and accurately create a free comprehensive proposal for your evaluation. Do not hesitate to contact us for further information.