As you are aware about Magento is going to discontinue support for Magento 1, which indicates every user shall migrate to Magento 2 for interrupted and best in class magento experience. It took a long time for Magneto to offer the world the amazing features and performance rich Magento 2 best e-commerce platform.
It’s quite obvious for the existing Magento 1 users to ask do they really have to upgrade to Magento 2? And if yes what are the driving factors for that change?
High and enhanced performance and Architecture:
It’s quite important to have the high and enhanced performance of your Magento web-portal as it’s quite often seen where the customer will leave the site if it takes longer time to go from site to cart page for check-out. In Magento 1 the after-speed optimization the acquired speed was between 8-10 seconds but in Magento 2 you can expect 52% faster check-out speed. You would also see an addition of newer technologies similar to the latest versions of NGINX, Apache, Composer, Zend, and Symfony. Apart of this with PHP 7 process you can expect 135 thousand more orders processed and 2.1 million more catalog view per hour.
Expressive and user-friendly Dashboard:
In Magento 1 there were certain areas where the users found it little difficult to understand such as reports, orders placed etc. but in Magento 2 it gives you additional information with a single click of mouse i.e. lifetime sales, average orders, last orders, top search terms, revenue, tax, shipping, quantity, check bestsellers and many more.
Ocean full of Extensions:
In Magento 2 there are many plug-n-play extensions available so one need not to wait for any kind of additional development. With Magento 1 in Magento marketplace there were so many extensions for similar or other functionalities which used to cause a lot of conflicts in working simultaneously because of rewriting on each other, so this was a costly and time-consuming affair. Wherein Magento 2 comparatively offer much cleaner codes which permits extensions to overlap the core code and not overriding. Apart of this it’s quite easy and seamless to integrate any specific extension in Magento 2 by using HTML5, Require.js, and CSS3.
Advanced SEO:
Magento 2 can boost the SEO of all your stores using Schema.org, other than this for each product one can define the search engine optimization by selecting the parameters through – “Products” > “Catalog” > Choose a product > Expand “Search Engine Optimization”. One can use canonical Metatag for products and categories to achieve the better results.
PWA (Progressive Web Application):
PWA is the next Generation technology developed by keeping in mind the loop holes and disadvantages of a web and mobile applications. PWA shall create an app like icon or a shortcut of the specific webpage on the user’s mobile or tablet, wherein the user doesn’t have to give any sort of access permission or need not to occupy the available space of the device. PWA is a much-advanced version of mobile responsive webpages yet offering native app like user experience. The biggest advantage of having Magento PWA is one doesn’t have to maintain separate databases for Android and IOS apps and website, instead whatever changes you are making from the admin back-end are going to be reflected in real-time on web as well as PWA. Apart of that this is going to be very easy on pockets too as for marketing an application one has to spend tens of thousands of dollars.
How to migrate from Magento 1 to Magento 2 and what is the process to be followed?
The process of migrating Magento 1 to Magento 2 starts with:
- Firstly, take the back-up of all available data in magento 1 including order details, customer data, products, catalogs and all other related files, folders etc.
- You shouldn’t do the migration process on your live magento store but create a clone for migration process where you can analyze the store functions, products, catalogs etc. and decide what sort of data should be migrated and rest should be deleted or left there itself.
- Once the above process is done, then check the compatibility of the current theme, extensions or any other custom development or patches with Magento 2.
- Once all checks are passed you are good to migrate the data from the clone to magento 2 store, wherein you are advised not to carry forward un-necessary data such as logs or recently viewed items etc.
- Now you are ready to install magento 2 on the same server where your existing magento 1 store is installed.
Still we would recommend to either take help with the subject matter experts like LogicRays Technologies or check the Official Magento migration guide by Magento.
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