Varnish Cache is a powerful open source HTTP web accelerator, aka cashing reverse HTTP proxy, which is designed to significantly improve your application performance. Varnish boosts your Magento store by cashing a copy of the page in memory the first time a user browse through that page and then delivers a cached response immediately after…
Hunting Season Opens Off on your holidays tomorrow, are you? Take a well-earned rest, go out and enjoy yourself then, but don’t forget that the holiday buying season is already sneaking into our pockets, and eCommerce businesses that want to gain some green on Thanksgiving Day, Black Friday including such festivals as Christmas, Hanukkah, and…
UPDATE: as Magento 1.x reached end-of-support on June 30, 2020, all M1 extensions were removed from Marketplace on July 7, 2020. But we still take care of partners who decided not to migrate to Magento 2 for now. So if you still need our Magento HTML5 Uploader extension, you can download it from this page (find…
One of our clients, Gimmee Jimmy’s Cookies (GJ Cookies), has sold its business on September 1st, 2016. Our mutual journey started back in 2014, when GJ Cookies decided to move away from Yahoo’s Bigcommerce platform due to complexity of website management process. Maven was recommended and introduced to GJ Cookies by one of our past clients…
What is a Sitemap? As the name says, it’s a map of your website. Sitemap contains a list of all URLs your website has and Magento sitemap isn’t an exception. It helps search engines to find trails to all your pages and make sure your website is indexed and pages are crawled correctly. Sitemaps can…
This is our fifth tutorial on setting up and configuring different types of products in Magento. This time I would like to talk about virtual products. Certainly, most Magento stores sell primarily physical goods. But if you sell a service or a different kind of product that does not need to be shipped (lack of…
From the moment your potential customer opens your website you have only a few minutes to convince him that you are able to deliver the service. The competition is high and so are the expectations your customers have. Is your website mobile-friendly? Is the design intuitive? Is the payment system trustworthy? Giving the right impression…
It’s all at the shopper’s fingertips today: a million stores, every kind of product, endless choices! It was supposed to be a good thing, right? Undeniably so. However, an unsettling trend is on the rise now. Almost 70 percent of carts are being abandoned, conversions are plummeting and ultimately, your sales are being affected. And…
Although holiday shopping season does not start until almost 6 months from now, we have decided to look back at Black Friday statistics from the recent years. In this post we will concentrate on sales trends on Black Friday and the shopping events around it, how Black Friday shopping evolves in Europe, and in the…
When a Ukrainian startup moves to Europe, it is considered a smart decision. Whereas when a European moves to Ukraine to build his startup – it is not a usual matter. And this is the kind of story we are giving you today. In 2011 a Dutch IT entrepreneur Leander Biltges moved from the Netherlands…