Magento, an open-source PHP platform, is widely recognized for developing E-commerce web applications. It is available in two editions, Magento Community and Magento Enterprise. The Magento Community Edition is a free edition, best supports applications with low volumes of data (up to a few thousand SKUs) while the Magento Enterprise is a paid edition, works quicker on websites with high volumes (more than million units) of traffic or products.
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Due to its features of scalability, flexibility, and better shopping UX, Magento has become one of the most prior recommendations of developers to develop B2B and B2C e-commerce applications. This CMS provides best solutions for:
- Startups
- Small and medium enterprises
- Multinational Firms
Why choose Magento for your next E-commerce project, when several others are available?
Nearly 25% of the E-commerce market prefer Magento. The platform is highly flexible and has a very reliable and intuitive admin interface. Brands like Nike, Ford, Honeywell and many others have used Magento.
There are certain features in the Magento, that makes it far better than the other E-commerce platforms available in the market. Some of them are:
1. Scalability:
The latest Magento version 2.X provides maximum scalability and best performance. It can handle millions of website visitors without any issue. Because of the scalability enhancements, many large catalogs can be managed in an efficient manner. This, in turn, supports a high number of orders every hour on the same hardware along with supporting multiple admin users in the back-end. For the maximum output, the backend should consist of:
- 2 GB RAM
- Apache 2.4
- Nginx 1.8
- MySQL 5.6 or latest
- PHP version 7 or latest
2. Performance:
For better performance, Magento minimizes the amount of data that is sent back to the server. The server also responds quickly due to which the loading time of each page gets reduced to a great extent. With a speedy platform, the UX of the customers improves. This, in turn, increases user engagement and drives traffic on the site result in more sales.
3. Thousands of extensions and plug-ins:
There is a vast variety of Magento Plug-ins and Extensions helps the business owners to stretch the existing functionalities of their E-commerce store to bespoke requirements. The advanced APIs and built-in automated testing framework are able to work with thousands of 3rd party extensions, available in the marketplace.
4. SEO Compatibility:
SEO features of Magento like generating Google sitemaps automatically, creating search-friendly links, URL rewrites along with controlling URLs, managing duplicate content are some of the SEO optimization features of Magento. Henceforth, these features make the SEO optimization of E-commerce sites very effective.
5. Mobile friendly:
Since the world is moving towards mobile, it is important to make a website mobile responsive. E-commerce sites developed in Magento are easy to make mobile responsive by using the Magento responsive design which can be customized for different types of products and websites.
6. Magento Community:
There are a lot of users on Magento community who are there to help each other regarding any issue or problem persist. You can ask any question any time, and can expect an answer within a short period. Some of the popular Magento communities are:
Market Share of Magento:
Magento is now leading the E-commerce market by capturing more than 20% of the market share. Millions of E-commerce applications have been build on Magento followed by WooCommerce, PrestaShop and BigCommerce.
Although the positions of the E-commerce platforms like Magento, WordPress, Shopify, PrestaShop, BigCommerce fluctuates every year, yet Magento has retained its place in the top 3 positions.
How to choose a company for your next E-commerce project on Magento?
You should find the rightmost team which can guide you in every possible manner including:
- Relevant design
- Proper estimation
- Necessary features
- Support and Maintenance
Hence, a dedicated e-commerce development team will support you through every phase of your project and will deliver your site meeting all your requirements.
We, at Kadam technologies, have a professional dedicated team of Magento developers which have gained expertise in developing complex Magento applications to reach a global audience. Kadam technologies is an eminent web and mobile development company having a clientele of 250+ from U.S.A, U.K, Malaysia, Europe, and India.
We also provide digital marketing services to drive traffic onto your site for more sales. Kadam Technologies has been listed amongst the topmost web development companies in India on Yourstory.
