Notion CMS

A production-ready portfolio and blog system built with Next.js and powered by Notion

Notion CMS is a complete portfolio and blog system built with Next.js and Notion as a headless CMS.

You manage all your content inside Notion, but your website runs on your own code, your own domain, and your own hosting with full control over performance, SEO, and scalability.

You get a real website, not a Notion page link.

This template is built for developers, designers, freelancers, and creators who want a fast, scalable, SEO-first website without building everything from scratch.

Notion-like UI with pixel-perfect rendering

No design compromises. No mismatches.

The UI is inspired directly by Notion itself. Every block, layout, and spacing is rendered pixel perfect on your website.

What you see inside Notion is exactly what your visitors see on your site.

• No broken layouts
• No rewritten styles
• No visual inconsistencies

Your users get the same clean and familiar Notion experience, but on a fast, fully optimized Next.js website.

Notion vs Next.js rendered page - pixel-perfect content rendering on your site

Why this exists when Notion already has a “website” feature

Notion’s native website feature renders everything on the client side. That causes slow load times, weak SEO, poor Google indexing, and almost no technical control.

This template solves those problems completely.

With this setup

• Built with Next.js, one of the fastest modern frameworks
• Pages are statically rendered
• Near instant load times
• Very strong SEO and Google indexing
• Handles high traffic easily
• Full control over meta title, description, Open Graph, and thumbnails
• Auto generated sitemap.xml and robots.txt
• Per-page indexing control
• Connect Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager
• Built-in Vercel Analytics and Speed Insights
• You fully own the code, hosting, and behavior

With Notion’s native website feature

• Slow page loads
• Client-side rendering only
• Weak SEO
• Poor Google indexing
• No sitemap or robots.txt control
• No proper analytics setup
• Limited metadata and thumbnail control
• No real ownership of performance

Real proof. Real traffic. No marketing.

This exact Next.js + Notion CMS setup is already running in production on a fresh domain with only 6 quality blog posts and zero paid marketing.

📊 Google Analytics results

Real Google Analytics data from my own portfolio website, built entirely using this Notion CMS template. Over 10,000 views and nearly 7,000 active users achieved with no paid marketing.

Metrics:

• 10,000+ total views
• ~7,000 active users
• Achieved with pure organic traffic
• No ads, promotions, or backlinks campaigns

This proves the SEO and performance strength of this setup.

🌍 Global traffic distribution

Global traffic distribution from my portfolio site running on this template. Users from 30+ countries accessed the site with consistent performance worldwide.

Users are coming from across the world, including:

United States, United Kingdom, Germany, France, Spain, Canada, Singapore, South Korea, Italy, Austria, Sweden, Ukraine, South Africa, Czech Republic, Armenia, and many more.

This shows consistent global performance, not localized spikes.

🔍 Traffic source breakdown

Traffic sources for my portfolio website built on this template. Nearly 8,000 users from pure organic search with only six published blog posts on a fresh domain.

• ~8,000 organic search users
• ~2,000 direct users
• 260 referrals
• Organic social traffic
• Minimal unassigned traffic

If 6 blog posts can do this, imagine a full portfolio and content system built on top of it.

Real-world performance metrics

This template is not just SEO-friendly. It is technically fast.

Real user performance metrics from my live portfolio website using this template. Performance score of 100 with excellent Core Web Vitals across all metrics.

Vercel Speed Insights screenshot

Real user experience scores:

• Performance score: 100
• First Contentful Paint: 1.6 seconds
• Layout Shift: 0.01
• First Input Delay: 7 ms
• Time to First Byte: 0.58 seconds

Performance score 100 across 30 to 40 countries, including United States, United Kingdom, Germany, France, Spain, Canada, Singapore, South Korea, Italy, Austria, Sweden, Ukraine, South Africa, and more.

This is real user data, not lab tests.

Zero infrastructure cost to start

This setup runs on completely free infrastructure.

• No database cost, because Notion stores all content
• No backend server cost
• No paid CMS
• No paid hosting on Vercel for normal usage

You only start paying when you reach massive scale, in the millions of users. Until then, this setup costs you nothing to run.

What you can do with this template

• Use Notion as a full CMS and database
• Manage portfolio, blog, and static pages
• Control routes and navigation
• Set SEO and Open Graph per page
• Add thumbnails with carousel support
• Manage images, videos, PDFs, and files
• Auto generate sitemap.xml and robots.txt
• Block pages from Google indexing
• Connect analytics and performance tools
• Deploy easily on Vercel

You get both:

• The Notion database template
• The complete Next.js codebase

Duplicate the database, add your content, deploy, and your site is live.

Built for production, not demos

This is not a showcase project.

This is a production-ready website system already proven with real traffic, real users, real performance, and real SEO results.

If you want full control, speed, and scalability without rebuilding everything from zero, this template is built for you.

❤️ All screenshots shown above are from my own live portfolio website, built and scaled using this exact template.

Buy the Notion CMS template

👉 Get instant access on Gumroad

The regular price of this template is $499.

To celebrate the launch, you get an early access discount of $300.

Launch price: $199 - pay once and own it forever.

Buy now ⤵️

Includes:

1. Complete Next.js source code
2. Notion CMS database template
3. Full setup and usage documentation
4. Lifetime access to updates

📄 Full setup and usage guide is available here:

Docs - How to use Notion CMS

Complete documentation to set up, manage, and use the Notion CMS with your Next.js website, including database setup, media handling, analytics, SEO, and deployment guides.