Make Sure That You Are Not Committing These 4 Mistakes While Developing a Magento Store

Magento is considered as the most reliable e-commerce platform. More than 30% of e-commerce websites are built on Magento. The online stores developed using these technologies are highly interactive. Some of the advanced features of Magento include online store management, better customer services/feedback and a lot more. Despite loaded with the utmost feature, it is still much more flexible and straightforward to develop an e-commerce site in Magento. But if you want to keep your brand value high forever, then we should avoid some of the most common mistakes. This silly development mistakes listed below can severely affect the sales of your e-store if it is left unnoticed.

Layered Navigation Issues

If more than one option is available in the navigation page then it is known as layered navigation. This type of navigation facilitates the listing of varied product categories on one page which allows customers to choose their desired options. If the layered navigation is implemented then users will face the issues like concealed images and slow page loading speed. Pages with such type of designs are immediately discarded by the visitors which in turn declines the sales.

Usage of Substandard themes

There is a vast collection of exciting themes provided by Magento which can enhance the overall look and feel of your online store. Usually, what happens is that the Magento developers choose the theme based on their like and forget considering the customers perspective. To overcome this issue, the best solution to it is to implement the use of ajax navigation and allow search engine crawlers to crawl through your pages.

Shared resources and server

If a Magento store is shared with other online stores, it will result in the decrease in the performance level of the store website. A low-level performance store is the mark of decline in sales. To avoid security threats we need to customize and configure our server based on our needs.

Unresponsive Site

Responsive web design has become an important trend as the mobile devices are continuously rising. A responsive site plays the major role in improving the branding of the site which in turn results in the increase of sales. While in a case of unresponsive sites the sales rate is drastically reduced and in turn leaves the bad impression on web customers.

Magento is one of the widely used open-source e-commerce platforms for businesses which is ready to take full and complete benefits of online store channel.

Rahim Makhani is the CEO of Auxano Global Services - a pioneer in Magento Development Services. He continuously publishes articles and writes blogs on Magento Store development.