With over 12 years of experience in tech and marketing, Anastasia enjoys sharing empowering insights on web, mobile, and AR technology in retail, e-commerce UX, and self-service kiosk solutions. Her articles are featured in Digital Commerce 360, Multichannel Merchant, SD Times, and other outlets.
Hyvä has become the go-to solution for Magento merchants aiming to speed up their storefronts. With its lightweight architecture and modern tech stack, Hyvä indeed delivers a clear performance boost right out of the box. But while many see a switch to Hyvä as the sole solution to all speed and user experience issues, that’s rarely the case. This article describes Amasty’s 12 best practices for Magento optimization after migrating a store to Hyvä.
A growing number of Magento merchants who face rising development costs or crave simplicity begin to see Shopify as a “silver bullet”. But what many realize too late is that a new platform won’t fix what’s broken beneath the surface. This article is not a warning against Shopify but a call for smarter decisions. We’ll explore two paths forward: staying on Magento and optimizing it, or migrating from Magento to Shopify, but doing it with your eyes wide open.
You might be skeptical about having to update your Magento to the latest version every year or two and would rather skip a release or wait for a major release instead. However, as you'll see from the release note highlights that we’ve summarized in this post, minor releases can introduce significant improvements. You can spend the next business quarters with your current features – or get enhanced features of Magento 2.4.8!
Starting April 2025, compliance with PCI DSS 4.0.1 will require e-commerce stores to implement a Content Security Policy (CSP) on payment-related pages. To align with these requirements, the Hyvä development team is expanding CSP support across its themes and checkout solutions. Below we review the essence of CSP requirements for Magento and Amasty’s approach to supporting Hyvä’s CSP implementation in its Magento 2 extensions.
Free extensions seem like an easy way to expand functionality without extra investment. Yet, not all free modules offer the same value or reliability. While some extensions provide minor enhancements with minimal risk, others modify core Magento functions and, for that reason, require careful consideration. Below, we’ll examine the pros and cons of free Magento extensions and help you determine when they are a smart choice – and when they’re a Pandora’s Box.
Jewelry is an industry characterized by vast product catalogs and numerous attributes: sizes, prices, gemstone types, and many more. All this can translate into poor product discoverability and slow filtering performance which can frustrate jewelry shoppers and lead to lost sales. Let’s explore a real business case from one of Amasty’s clients and see how jewelry businesses can leverage Magento to not only overcome challenges but also drive growth.
Backed by 12 years of experience in IT, Anastasia enjoys sharing insights on web, mobile, & kiosk technology in retail, e-commerce AR, and UX. Her articles are featured in Multichannel Merchant, Digital Commerce 360, SD Times, and other outlets.
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