Magento 2 Vs Magento 1 – The Key Differences

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If you are running an eCommerce business, you might have heard about Magento, or maybe your online store is already built with this platform. Since the introduction of this platform, it has been offering plenty of benefits to the e-stores, which is the reason why it still holds a huge market share in the eCommerce industry. Today, millions of business merchants around the world use Magento to power up their online stores. And it has been found that the merchants who use this platform are able to grow their businesses three times faster as compared to the others. 
 
And, now with the introduction of the newest version of the platform that has come with improved features, these eCommerce businesses can now grow even at a greater pace now. Want to check out the points that will clearly state how it is better than its previous version, Magento 1? 
 
Here are the key differences between the two summarised by a highly skilled developer of a Magento development company ...
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Architectural differences:
Though Magento 1 has a very flexible architectural design, the structure of the new version is designed and optimised for performance and speed. Not only the latest Magento version supports PHP7, the latest version of PHP, but it is also backed up by a bulk of modern technologies for creating much more advanced eCommerce stores like Composer, Varnish, NGINX, Redis, Symfony, and more. Magento 2 also natively supports CSS3, HTML5, jQuery, MySQL, etc. 
 
Improved performance & better speed:
While Magento 1 offers an average page loading speed of more than 2 seconds, the newest version ensures a 20 per cent faster page loading speed. This is because of the full-page caching feature offered by Magento 2 in both its Enterprise and Community editions. Along with this, the recent version of the platform also ensures faster checkout time, enhanced server-response time, and supports around ten million views of catalog pages per hour, which was just 500,000 per hour with Magento 1. 
 
Extensions:
The latest version of Magento has made third-party extension usage and installation much simpler and faster for the eCommerce merchants. There’re lots of differences between the previous and the new version in terms of extensions. 

Conflicting extensions: - Even though Magento 1 allows third-party extensions usage, still there are many conflicts when more than one extension override codes for rewriting the same functionality. But, thanks to Magento 2 now that allows the third-party plugins or extensions to override the core codes instead of overriding them, thereby making it possible to make multiple extensions work together simultaneously. 

Affordable extensions: - With HTML5, Require.js, and CSS3 updating and installing new extensions has become much easier and affordable with Magento 2. 

 
Streamlined admin dashboard:
The admin dashboard structure was quite challenging and chunky because of the messy and cluttered design. But, the admin dashboard structure of the new version is remarkably robust, absolutely user-friendly, clean, and uncluttered with only the important information. Even a non-technical user can easily manage an eCommerce store with this well-organised and streamlined admin dashboard structure. 
 
Improved SEO:
Unlike the previous version, Magento 2 comes with all the SEO functionalities that were not there in the previous version. Some of the notable SEO features of this new version are

Duplicate content checking with a canonical tag
Implementation of meta title and meta description in every page

 
Apart from these, Magento 2 is much more optimised for all mobile devices. The stores are mobile-friendly, responsive, and come with a short and simple checkout process. 
 
Also, Magento 2 is also much more secure than the last version and also supports more convenient payment gateways including Braintree and PayPal. 
 
With these differences, Magento 2 ensures to build much more advanced, high-performing, interactive, easy to manage, and fast stores now. 
 
Jonathan Paul is an experienced developer of a leading Magento development company in Australia, PHPProgrammers. The author has written this article to make eCommerce aware of what’s new in Magento 2 and how it is better than the previous version in every aspect for an online store.

Jonathan Paul is a techie, knowledgeable and highly skilled Magento Developer of Australia working with PHPProgrammers who like to share his industrial knowledge and insights with the readers.