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Oleksandr Drok
- Oct 19, 2023
The Step-By-Step Guide for Setting up PhpStorm for Magento 2 Development
Compared to Magento 1, Magento 2 combines a lot of built-in tools and approaches designed to facilitate all development processes, and most significantly, enhance the source code quality. As a consequence, the product quality raises simultaneously.
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Oleksandr Drok
- Sep 29, 2021
Introducing a new Subscription Model
Recently Adobe (Magento) announced plans to give developers the option to sell extensions using the subscription model on the Adobe Commerce Marketplace.
This is a welcome move on Adobe's part. As most ecommerce platforms nowadays work using that model - a model that offers obvious benefits to both merchants and extension developers.
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Oleksandr Drok
- Feb 9, 2021
Magento 2 Blog – Create & Manage Your Store Blog Easily
We’ve recently released Blog MX, a paid version of our blogging module. It’s a comprehensive solution, and an excellent choice for anyone looking to run a blog on their site.
Not sure if you need this extension? I’m going to explain when, why, and who can benefit from the module the most in this article.
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Oleksandr Drok
- Aug 5, 2020
Magento 2 Security Upgrades: What You Need to Know
Usually new Magento releases bring some bug and security fixes as well as new features and improvements. Releases have a lot of changes. With each release, Magento changes one or a few digits in the version number (e.g. from 2.3.1 to 2.3.2).
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Oleksandr Drok
- Jul 17, 2020
What is Google PageSpeed Module and How Does It Work?
During several years we have been studying and implementing various approaches to improve the speed of store server and frontend.
For an online store, the most important aspect is the operation speed. And here, it is important not only how fast a server returns a page to a client (TTFB), but also, how quickly the client can download this page and all related resources (files js, CSS, images, fonts).
The speed of operation is one of the most significant factors which affects the SERP ranking in search engines (Google, Bing, etc). The faster a server generates the page and a client downloads it, the higher your website is in the search ...
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Oleksandr Drok
- May 4, 2020
Magento Product Schema: 7 Essential Snippets for Magento 2
Rich Snippets aren’t google ranking factor and doesn’t allow directly improve links positions in SERP, but they allows greatly improve CTR (click-through rate) and traffic.
Using Rich Snippet for e-commerce allows you to significantly increase the CTR in SERP and as a result attract more customers to your store.
In Magento 2 only two of six key snippers are supported, and it is obviously not enough.
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Oleksandr Drok
- May 3, 2020
Best Practices for Your Magento 2 Affiliate Ecommerce Store
‘Affiliate Programs’, ‘Affiliate Marketing’ – these terms appeared and become quite popular after Amazon established its first program about 20 years ago. Now there is a variety of successful ecommerce affiliate examples: ShareASale, AmazonSmile (non-profit model), Shutterfly, Nasty Gal, WalMart, Macy’s, Mango etc.
A lot of ecommerce stores with less known names run their affiliates and succeed in this process. Why don’t you consider launching your own one to drive more sales to your store?
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Oleksandr Drok
- Apr 7, 2020
How to Speed Up Magento 2: 7 Proven Methods
The significance of site speed is impossible to underestimate – users are becoming more and more demanding, Google is penalizing websites with low page load speed. According to Radware research, 3 seconds download speed web page in comparison with 1 second download time web pages, has 22% views less, bounce rate higher by 50% and 22% less conversion. While 5 seconds web site (comparing to 1 second) 35% fewer views, 105% higher bounce rate, conversion 38% less. As you see – the faster your website downloads, the more money you get. Magento 2 stores have the specific list of actions for improving site speed you can take at the very start ...
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Oleksandr Drok
- Apr 25, 2019
5 Proven Ways to Boost Customer Satisfaction with Magento 2 Extensions
There are 5 essential facts about customer satisfaction and trust level importance:
Customers twice more often share their bad experience, than good one
You must work 12 times harder to cover 1 customer poor experience
New buyers cost your store 6-7 times more to acquire
The probability of selling to an existing customer is way more than to a new buyer
Loyal customers are 10 times more valuable, than their first purchase.
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Oleksandr Drok
- Jan 24, 2019
7 essential ways to improve your Magento 2 site speed [Updated]
The significance of site speed is impossible to underestimate - users are becoming more and more demanding, Google is penalizing websites with low page load speed.
According to Radware research, 3 seconds download speed web page in comparison with 1 second download time web pages, has 22% views less, bounce rate higher by 50% and 22% less conversion. While 5 seconds web site (comparing to 1 second) 35% fewer views, 105% higher bounce rate, conversion 38% less.
As you see – the faster your website downloads, the more money you get. Magento 2 stores have the specific list of actions for improving site speed you can take at the very ...