Magento is becoming the future of eCommerce platforms. It came in on the 31st of March 2008 by surprise. At first release most people hadn’t heard of it, but after not long it got swamped with publicity. With it now been out for little over a year, there is no doubt it has made some immense progress.
The first thing I think it is worth mentioning is BUGS! After watching the magento Issue Roadmap for the last 6 months its amazing how many bugs have been found. That may not sound too positive but with the rate they are fixing them, I think it will only be a matter of time before its bombproof.
The second thing is that Magento was clearly developed from a commercial perspective. Magento has a unique back end unlike any others, with features far beyond any others. There has been many BIG online shopping stores swap platform in the recent months.
Some fantastic examples of Magento can be found here:
http://www.gitem.fr/
http://www.minirepublic.com/
http://www.ruralking.com/
So now for my opinion on the eCommerce hosting situation with Magento. Well as far as page-load times go, Magneto as a whole is OK! I think it is missing some core optimization, from what I have seen within the files there is far too much code. I know it may sound silly, but when running over 100,000 lines of code the only real thing you can do is have less.
But with that said, it will only be a matter of time. Once all the bugs are ironed out and features implemented the only thing left to do is optimize. At Kezoon.com we are working with Magento to try and find the best environment to run it around.
The next point I think that needs mentioning is the templates. As of now Magento is still lacking templates, not that its not possible or incredibly specialist but just not enough. TemplateMonster have started offering quite a few nice templates but the price is not very righteous. For a standard template the pricing is coming to around $250 what will one day come down.
The problem with the templates from TemplateMonster is the unique price! When starting or even running a online store there is no doubt a store needs a UNIQUE feel. A store needs an identity, whether it be by a color palette or a array of images. The price for a unique template from TemplateMonster is something like $2000 what seems ridiculous! But it is just a case of weighing up if it would be worth it or not.
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