Benefits Of Using Magento 2 For Ecommerce Development

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It’s pretty fascinating to note that the buying habits of people have changed drastically over the last few years. People have turned to online shopping now. Yes, online shopping has now become a part of life. And this habit of regular online shopping has now led to a boom in the eCommerce industry. ECommerce businesses have gained immense traction due to this. 
 
With this, most of the traditional businesses have already gone online and the rest are planning to get their sites built as early as possible. And a point to be noted is that most of the existing eCommerce sites run on the Magento platform, which has made the ones planning to go online look for Magento developers to get their sites built. 
 
As per the Stats report: 

Magento ranks higher than the other available eCommerce platforms
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... than 3 million eCommerce business merchants prefer to get their sites built with Magento.
Nearly 2 percent of the websites are powered by this eCommerce platform. 
The number of Magento sites will tremendously increase in the near future.

 
However, Magento has now come up with its new version, that’s Magento 2. This version has brought some major improvements with it. Want to know more about it?
 
Take a look at these amazing enhancements and benefits of Magento 2 in eCommerce development now. 
 
A streamlined checkout now:
Most of the customers leave the stores with abandoned carts because of a lengthy and frustrating checkout process. With Magento 2, this won’t be the problem anymore. It has streamlined the checkout process and has cut down the rate of shopping cart abandonment. Customers can now complete the checkout process within just a single page and without any hassles. 
 
Mobile-compatible interface:
Mobile commerce or m-commerce is getting more popular day by day. The number of mobile customers is increasing at a drastic rate. To cope up with this increasing mobile shopping demand, Magento 2 has come up with this feature. Yes, it is mobile-friendly and supports mCommerce. Sites built with version 2.x are compatible with every mobile device including smartphones, tablets, etc., and ensures easy mobile shopping without any barrier. Magento 2 sites ensure to offer the same look, feel, and experience to the shoppers, no matter which mobile device the user is using. 
 
Improved and more scalable store performance:
Version 2 of this platform has improved indexes that ensure effective updates, and speed up the store’s performance. Magento 2 is integrated with the top-class and more well-organised Varnish codes. It is now the leading HTTP accelerator, which can handle most of the common caching requests. Stores built with this version get loaded much faster as compared to the previous version as well as the other eCommerce platforms available. It loads the sites nearly 30 to 50 times faster than before. Also, the front-end of the stores become nearly 66 percent more effective with the easy addition of products and faster add-to-cart process as compared to version 1.x. 
 
Full-page caching:
Full-page caching is another plus point of Magento 2. This feature helps in boosting the page performance and speed by storing all the HTML outputs of all the pages in a cache. The caching data feature of this version helps to store the data every time a visitor visits the site. It displays the HTML cached output, fetching the data straight from the database. This feature of Magento 2 also helps in static page caching and reducing the server load. Moreover, this full-page caching feature helps in caching every single page without running the blocks. This helps to open any pre-loaded page without even recalling its data from the cache. 
 
More secure than the previous version:
Magento 2 sites are much more secure than the ones built with the previous version. The older version had 9 folders in the roots whereas version 2 has only 5. The JS, ERROR, SKIN, and a few more folders are now shifted to a completely new directory known as ‘PUB’. These changes in the structure have made this new version more tough and secure to steal or hack codes from the root folder. 
 
Apart from these, many more improvements in the admin interface are also seen in the new version of the platform. And with all these enhancements, Magento 2 now proves to be the best platform when it comes to customer-friendly eCommerce store development. 
 
Jonathan Paul is a dedicated and highly skilled Magento developer associated with the top Magento development company in Australia, PHPProgrammers. With a keen interest in writing useful articles about Magento, the author has written this one to unbox the key benefits of the latest version of the platform in eCommerce development and its major improvements.

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.