Hello @mar_velcapt ,
One of the advantages of Magento is the huge professional community behind it.
This community has been using Magento 1.x versions for the last 9 years, so those using the latest Magento 1.x versions have access to assistance with their related problems.
In Magento 2 even the core is developed on github, so many developers work on new features and patches every day.
What is new in Magento 2 – 15 reasons why you should upgrade
Magento 2 comes with a lot of improvements in areas of coding, functionality, and user experience. Let us see the most prominent ones.
1) Scalability and enhanced performance
Magento 2 loading time is way faster than the standard 2-3 seconds.
Note: According to experts, websites shouldn’t load for more than 3 seconds, or exceed 3 MB, otherwise you might risk losing a significant chunk of your traffic.
The homepage, category pages, and product pages load in less than 1.5 seconds, even without using frontend caching.
2) Responsive and search engine friendly
Magento 2’s responsive frontend design makes it easy to browse on all devices. This is a big advantage, because Google’s algorithms have been officially favoring mobile friendly websites in ranking.
This responsive design also enhances user experience.
3) Streamlined checkout
With the new, streamlined checkout, the checkout process has become easier and faster for customers.
Checkout is available for guests without registration and Magento 2 automatically identifies registered customers based on their email addresses.
Registering after the checkout process is also an option, and the process has also been simplified.
4) Elasticsearch
In Magento Enterprise Edition, thanks to Elasticsearch, the quality of searches and user experience have been improved.
Last but not least, it already handles 33 languages, and Magento core developers are clearly going to rely on Elasticserach in the future.
Third party Elasticsearch extensions for M2 are also available with similar functionality.
5) Cheaper and easier extension updating
Compared to Magento 1.x versions, installing new extensions and modules has become simpler and thus cheaper too.
Installing even a few of basic Magento 1.x extensions can take a lot of time, even for professional developers, not to mention the possibility of conflicting extensions.
The process has become simpler, as well as the frontend development, the functionality can be modified more easily too, thanks to HTML5, Less, require.js, and CSS3.
6) Ajax add-to-cart
Every time a product is added to the cart in Magento 1, the system reloads the page, which has a negative impact on its performance.
This can mount to seconds, and as our regular readers might already know, having to wait even only a few seconds can cause customers to abandon their carts.
If you’re selling products of smaller value or your customers usually add more products to their carts, this is an issue you can’t disregard.
Thanks to Ajax add-to-cart, the new system doesn’t have to reload the entire page when a new item is added to cart, which also enhances user experience.
7) Simpler navigation
Admin navigation has been simplified and modernized in Magento 2, even users with less experience can manage their online stores efficiently.
Many Magento 1 store owners have found M1’s admin interface a little complicated – only those with previous experience with complex interfaces could navigate it easily.
The new, simpler admin interface is a welcome feature for those without their own Magento developers.
8) Split database solution
In Magento 1, customers, admins, and developers use the same database, which might lead to database overload.
Straining the system from the admin side might cause problems on the customer side.
Magento 2 Enterprise Edition offers you the opportunity to use three separate master databases for:
- product data,
- checkout,
- and orders.
This scalability prevents the load on different databases having a negative impact on the performance of the others.
9) Dashboard
In the new system you can find the most important information in one place.
The Dashboard gives you an overview of:
- lifetime sales,
- average order amount,
- last orders,
- top search terms,
- most viewed products,
- new customers, etc.
It also displays financial data, so you can see the overall state of your business in a blink of an eye.
10) Simpler product upload
Creating new products has also become simpler.
The new system guides you through the simplified process step-by-step.
Another innovation makes it possible to upload product videos besides product photos.
11) More efficient customization
A personalized customer experience is a basic requirement for ecommerce stores that take business seriously.
Up-sell and cross-sell offers, personalized payment methods, or even giving coupons based on earlier behavior are all available to merchants using Magento 2.
By monitoring on-site behavior, we can determine what content we want our customers to see, what discounts and offers we want to give them.
12) Platform compatibility
Magento 2 supports advanced technologies such as CSS3, HTML5 and of course, MySQL.
Magento 2 uses jQuery instead of prototype.js.
13) Hardware requirements
Right now it’s hard to say exactly how much better Magento 2 is compared to earlier versions, since different performance tests yielded different results.
One thing is for sure though: it has lower hardware requirements to ensure the same level of performance.
This has a positive impact on costs and also potentially less problems.
First, new hardware is not cheap, acquiring even only a few pieces per year can be a huge burden on a growing business’ budget. Besides, more servers mean more potential complications.
The new system is more cost-effective even if you don’t have your own servers but use a hosting service.
14) More efficient testing
Regression testing Magento 1 to screen it for bugs is not an easy task.
When working with a more complex system with a lot of customized features, extensions, and modules, especially when the online store has a lot of traffic, minimizing risks is important too.
That’s why testing is essential. Fortunately, it has become easier in Magento 2.
Checking if new features and modules would conflict with the existing system has become a lot simpler.
The built-in testing framework makes running automated tests on any Magento site, regardless of size, easy.
15) Simpler integration
A useful feature of the Magento ecommerce store platform is the ability to integrate a lot of different systems – inventory management software, ERP, CRM.
However, when the integration doesn’t go smoothly, it’s not easy to find out exactly what messages got lost during the communication between Magento and the other system.
Magento 2 Enterprise Edition addresses this particular problem with the built-in RabbitMQ (Message Queue) framework that monitors the communication between Magento and other systems.
The second half of its name refers to its main function – storing unsent messages and forwarding them to the relevant systems as soon as possible (for instance, whenever a certain system, say, the inventory management software, is set to refresh).
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