In web development, pagination refers to the process of dividing a large set of data into smaller, manageable sections called pages. It is commonly used in situations where displaying all the data on a single page would be impractical or overwhelming for users.

In layman's terms - you've probably noticed when browsing the web, if you scroll to the end of a series of blog posts you'll see options to navigate to older pages. 

This is an example of paginated content, where these buttons (prev/next) or 1,2,3 etc all allow you (and search crawlers) to navigate to other pages that contain links to content.

There are many reasons why pagination is super-important when it comes to SEO. First of all, if you don't have a way to navigate to pages that contain internal-links that point to existing/old content, how is Googlebot / other crawlers going to find those pieces of content? Without any meaningful internal links pointing to that old content, when it forms part of a blog series, the content will exist in it's own silo. The only links pointing to it may be from an XML sitemap or from external sources on the web. Therefore, pagination gives you a reliable method of linking internally to all your old content.

Being one of the most used CMS' on the web, there's going to be interest in getting pagination right on a Wordpress site. Thankfully this is usually dealt with very well, out of the box. Wordpress powers many blogs and so getting pagination right is vital.

Some of our favourite examples of sites built with Wordpress that have strong pagination implementations are listed below.

Webflow is a relatively new but popular no-code website builder. According to W3Techs just 0.6% of the top 10 million sites on the web use Webflow. 

Some of our favourite examples of sites built with Webflow that have strong pagination implementations are listed below.

Whilst not representing a CMS or site builder, JavaScript is an incredibly powerful programming language that along with HTML and CSS makes up the majority of the web. JavaScript is used to power many websites' paginated content, so we felt it was important to include here.

Some of our favourite examples of sites that use JavaScript pagination are listed below.

Would you like to help contribute to the site? If you know of a great example of paginated content out there on the web, the likes of which we've not already included above, then we'd love to hear from you!

All user-submitted examples will be reviewed internally by the team prior to being included. If chosen, your name, photo, position and website (if you have one) can be included alongside the example you submit - if you want us to feature you, that is!