Key takeaways

• Kentico Site of the Month is a monthly award for websites built on Kentico's platform, judged by a Kentico committee, and every winner qualifies for Kentico Site of the Year.
• The City of Mandurah website pulls documents, places, roadworks and address data straight from the council's own systems, so residents see current information without manual updates.
• Complete Home Filtration's marketing team builds its own campaign pages, and every enquiry reaches HubSpot with the campaign source attached.
• Both sites run on Xperience by Kentico SaaS, using Page Builder, the Content Hub and built-in approval workflows.
• The common thread is ownership: editors and marketers publish without raising a ticket, and developers are only needed for structural changes.

What is Kentico Site of the Month?

Kentico Site of the Month is a monthly recognition program for websites built on Kentico's platform, run by Kentico since 2019. Since 2025, every launched project a partner submits through the Kentico Partner Portal is automatically considered, with no separate nomination. A committee of Kentico staff from product, marketing and design reviews new sites each month. Kentico says it looks at design, usability, accessibility, performance and platform innovation, and that submissions explaining the project's goals and business context stand out.

Winners receive a digital badge and are featured on kentico.com. Every monthly winner also qualifies for Kentico Site of the Year, where an expert committee picks winners by industry and the public votes for a Community Choice award.

Who won Kentico Site of the Month in September 2026?

Kentico named ten winners for September 2026, from the United States, Canada and Australia. In its September announcement, Kentico highlighted AI-powered search, AI-assisted migration, marketer-friendly content tools and conversion-focused customer journeys as the themes of the month. Two of the ten were Dapth builds on Xperience by Kentico:

• City of Mandurah (mandurah.wa.gov.au), a local government website for one of Western Australia's regional cities.
• Complete Home Filtration (completehomefiltration.com.au), the website for a business that sells, installs and services whole-home water filtration across Australia.

Kentico also called out marketer autonomy as a theme, naming Complete Home Filtration among the teams that gained independence from developers after leaving WordPress.

City of Mandurah: a council website that updates from source

The City of Mandurah's previous website relied on manual updates and disconnected data. Property information, events, council documents and places lived in separate systems, and keeping the website accurate took more effort than the team could sustain.

Dapth rebuilt the site on Xperience by Kentico SaaS and connected it to the systems that already own the information:

• Council documents, property and neighbourhood data and forms come from TechnologyOne over a secure connection.
• Places, points of interest, roadworks and address lookups come from IntraMaps and the council's spatial services.
• Both sources sync on a schedule, so the website reflects the latest information without anyone republishing it.
• Azure AI Search indexes the site automatically, so residents can find what they need as soon as it is published.
• Staff sign in with their existing Microsoft accounts. Four roles mapped from Azure Active Directory control who can draft, review and publish, and a single approval workflow enforces it.

For residents, that means current information in one place. For the council, every change is approved and recorded, and the platform is ready to add microsites or campaign sites without a rebuild.

Complete Home Filtration: a marketing-ready site with clean lead data

Complete Home Filtration runs a large paid advertising and email program with its marketing partner, Unify. Its previous WordPress site had no shared design system, campaign pages needed developer time, and lead tracking into HubSpot was unreliable. Many enquiries arrived without the campaign that produced them, so budget decisions were made on incomplete data.

Dapth rebuilt the site on Xperience by Kentico SaaS around how the marketing team works:

• A library of pre-designed components and home, landing and internal page templates lets the team build campaign pages without code.
• The Content Hub holds reusable content such as products, reviews and navigation, so it is written once and used everywhere.
• HubSpot stays the system of record. Its forms sit in a widget editors control from the CMS.
• Campaign details are captured when a visitor lands, kept for the whole visit, and sent to HubSpot with the form, so every enquiry carries its source.

The platform has held above 99% uptime since launch, and the site was built with room to add ecommerce, distributor workflows and service booking later.

What do the two winning sites have in common?

A council and a consumer brand have different audiences, different systems and different goals. Set side by side, the pattern is clear.

In both cases the website was set up around the people who own the content, not around the developers who built it. Developers are still needed for new content types or structural changes. Day to day, the teams publish on their own.

What should you check in your own website platform?

Whether you run a council, a consumer brand or a professional services firm, four questions show whether your site is working for your team or against it:

1. Can your team publish or change a page without raising a ticket?
2. Does information update from the system that owns it, or is it copied by hand?
3. Do you know which campaign produced each enquiry?
4. Is approval built into the platform, or does it run on email?

If the answer to any of these is no, the problem is usually how the platform was set up, not the platform itself. If you are on Kentico Xperience 13, support ends on 31 December 2026. The site keeps running, but updates and security fixes stop, so it is a good time to plan the move to Xperience by Kentico.