5 Critical Steps To Make Your Magento Store Run Smoothly

by JONATHAN PAUL Jonathan Paul working at PHPProgrammers, a leading

This article will be pinpointing the ways eCommerce merchants can assure to run their store smoothly and free it from any kind of privacy threats.

Like any other software applications, your persisting Magento store also needs to be maintained and tweaked with new features with time to address the changing customers demands and preferences. While eCommerce development with Magento in Australia has come so far helping the retailers to set forth with online selling, many forget that getting an eCommerce store developed is not a one-time investment. Rather it should be regularly maintained and improved to accompany the growing business needs, new products, or an increasing number of visitors or customers to the store. Keeping a store updated and modified to the latest scenarios in eCommerce, you can be the one grabbing more attention in the market.

Furthermore, maintaining an online store ensures that its security is very updated making it secure to the customers for all forms of transactions. So, without a further ado, get yourself acknowledged with these to-dos or tips on how to have your Magento-powered store updated with the time.

#1 Finding page errors

Page errors or technically the 404 error are the HTTP response codes sent by the servers to the browser when it cannot get the requested URL. The best thing to do in the case is removing those pages. Likewise, links of other page sources that are included in your store but are broken and show 404 errors must be deleted too. This is needed because 404 errors result in a poor experience for the customers who highly expects something to worthy to show up on the page.

#2 Log rotation

Well, this is an essential step to make your Magento store run smoothly because it frees the Magento store’s log information. The log keeps information of all what happens in the store i.e. customer logins, browsing activities, orders and so forth. While Magento provides the automatic option for removing the stale logs, you have to be aware to turn it on.

#3 Update security

Magento developers forum release new security patches every now and then to upgrade the website’s safety and make it least vulnerable as soon as they discover any vulnerabilities. Failing to install the patches shortly after their release will make your store exposed to the new unleased cyber attacks or data thefts. So, whichever Magento eCommerce development you are partnering with, make sure they’ve got support and maintenance services to help you fix your security loopholes every time.

#4 Clearing the image cache

Magento store saves up images of products in a separate cache called the Catalog Image cache. So, obviously, with time, the Cache gets overloaded with every day’s inclusion of new products. To prevent it getting overloaded and eating up too much backup space, flush you image caches at periodic intervals.

#5 Run with the newest version

Needless to say, the features in the Magento’s latest version will be better at pacing up your store’s performance than the old version it is currently running with. The new versions are always released keeping in mind the issues and frictions encountered by the store owners while using the preceding versions. So, whenever a stable version is unleashed in the market, make sure your turn heads to your Magento developers or partner to test it and get it implemented for your store.

No doubt, these are the key measures you need to follow to maintain your Magento eCommerce store. But what you or every merchant require is the long-term assured services of a dedicated team of Magento developers in Sydney or anywhere in Australia, who will be available round-o-clock to revamp, revise or update the store.

Jonathan Paul is the team lead and experienced Magento developer in Australia positioned at PHPProgrammers, a leading Magento development company delivering businesses dynamic websites and eCommerce solutions, no matter which niche market they serve. An avid writer and traveller, he likes to talk about the latest eCommerce developments, online marketing ideas and website maintenance tips through his writeups.