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Have You Started Migrating From Magento 1 to Magento 2 ?

Have You Started Migrating From Magento 1 to Magento 2 ?

As you all know that Magento is going to discontinue support for Magento 1, Which means that each and every users which are using Magento 1 have to migrate their system to Magento 2 to get best magento experience and uninterrupted service. It tooks long time for Magento to provide amazing features and good performance in Magento 2, The Best ECommerce platform. 


It is obvious questions by Magento 1 users to ask do they need to upgrade the system to Magento 2 ? If Yes, There are a list of factors to make a decision for Migration From Magento 1 to Magento 2.


High and Improved performance and Architecture 


It is a very important factor to have an improved performance of your Magento Website as most of the time customers may leave your website if it takes a long time to complete the flow of the website to cart page to check out. By using Magento 1 after speed optimization the processing speed is 8-10 seconds but in Magento 2, It is 52% faster checkout speed. You need to also see additional new technologies to the latest versions of Apache, Nginx, Zend, Composer and Symfony. Using newer version PHP 7, You can expect 135 thousand more ordered processed and catalog views per hour is more than 2.1 million. 


Demonstrative and user-friendly Dashboard 


In Magento 1 there are some areas where users found some difficulties to understand i.e Order Placed, Reports etc. But in Magento 2 there are improvements in it and it is giving additional information by a single click i.e Average Orders, Top Search Items, Total Revenue, Lifetime Sales, Data of Best Sellers, Tax, Shipping information and many more. 

 

Number of Extensions 


Magento 2 is having many plugins available so no one needs to wait for some kind of additional development. In Magento 1 there are many pug-ins available but so many extensions are similar or creating conflicts with other functionalities due to rewriting of each other and ultimately it was time consuming as well as costly. Magento 2 is having better and cleaner codes which enable extensions to overlap the code but not overriding. Also seamless integration in Magento 2 by using CSS3, Require.js and HTML 5. 


Improvement in SEO 


In Magento 2, For SEO Schema.org is used to boost your store SEO. For each product user can define SEO by selecting some parameters through Products → Catalog → Choose a Product → Expand “Search Engine Optimization”. In order to get better results for Products and Categories, users can use the Canonical Meta Tag. 


 

Progressive Web Application (PWA) 

PWA is the latest and next generation technology developed by keeping in mind the disadvantages and loopholes of mobile and Web applications. Using PWA. It creates an app like icon or shortcode of the public webpage on a user's tablet or Mobile, In which users don’t have to give any access permission or no need to occupy the available space of the device. This is a much advanced version of Mobile responsive website pages similar to the user experience of native apps. The main advantage of having Magento PWA is that users don’t have to maintain separate databases for Website, iOS and Android so whatever changes you are applying through the admin back end panel will be reflected to real-time website as well as PWA. Also it is pocket friendly as a mobile app, Users have to pay many dollars.  


Let’s check the Process to be followed and How to migrate from Magento 1 to Magento 2 ? 

The Migration process for Magento 1 to Magento 2 starts with:

  1. First of all take the backup of all your data which are available in Magento 1 including Customer Data, Order Details, Products, Catalogs and all other relevant files and folders.

  2. Don’t start migration directly to the live store but you can make a Clone of your Live Database and start the migration process for your store functionality, Products Catalogs etc and make a decision for which data to be migrated and rest of the data should be deleted or left there in the old system.

  3. Once above steps completed then check your theme, extensions and any other custom development or patches with Magento 2 system.

  4. Once all above steps are done, You can migrate your data from the clone system to the Magento 2 store and keep relevant data with the new system.

  5. Now It is a step to install Magento 2 on the same server where your Magento 1 store is installed.  



You can also Check Steps of Official Magento Migration guide by Magento

 

Conclusion :

This blog gave you an idea about improvements of Magento 2 and steps for Magento Migration. Contact us with a trusted company that provides Magento 1 to Magento 2 Migration Service. So, Just go ahead and start your implementation of the latest Magento 2 platform with improved performance, Better Dashboard, Improved SEO, PWA and cleaner code extensions.

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