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Now Available! Magic Edit Multiplatform – A Free Tool for Yahoo! Store, Shopify, BigCommerce and WordPress

You may have heard of a free time-saving tool we introduced a while back called Magic Edit.  This Google Chrome extension was designed to save time while editing an eCommerce store by replacing multiple mouse clicks with quick short-cuts.

Over the past few months, our app development team has been hard at work building a new multiplatform version of Magic Edit that offers even more useful features and is compatible with Yahoo! Store, BigCommerce^, Shopify, and WordPress.

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Introducing SiteSpeed Booster Pro from Your Store Wizards

SiteSpeed Booster Pro is a comprehensive suite of tools designed to decrease load time and enhance the performance of your eCommerce store on desktop and mobile devices.

Website speed is more important today than ever before.  Slow loading sites not only turn customers away but can be excluded from organic search results.  In order to capture sales, a land coveted real estate in SERPs, and gain a leg-up on your competition, a fast loading website is critical.

Amazon tested and found that for every 100ms added to load speed of their pages (that’s 1/10th of a second), they saw a decrease in revenue of 1%. So adding half a second to their load time would cost them 5% of their revenue.  What would you do if you could increase your revenue by even a few percentage points?

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Introducing ScriptCheck – A Necessary Check-Up for all eCommerce Stores

As we ring in the new year, we’re also welcoming our first new product of 2020 – one that is a must for any eCommerce store owner.

First, a little back-story.  A few weeks ago during one of our weekly meetings, I got an urgent text message from one of our clients saying their shopping cart wasn’t loading.

Sure enough, it wasn’t.  However, other store’s carts on the same platform were functioning normally.  We paused our meeting and began to dig into the root cause of the issue.

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Speed Test: Follow These Steps to Test Your Store & Learn How to Speed Things Up

How fast does your store load on your mobile device?  No, I mean how fast does your store really load on your mobile device?

You may think your store loads quickly, but have you ever asked Google if it’s fast enough?

Chances are, you and the search giant have a different definition of exactly what “fast” is.

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Search & AMP: Two Must-Haves Moving into the Holiday Season

With the start of September, store owners really only have 60 days to make sure their site is ready for the holiday shopping season. Over the past few years, we’ve seen shoppers take to shopping earlier and earlier thanks to stores pushing out sales and promotions before the traditional start of the season – Black Friday.

While most store owners aren’t going to make major changes to their store this time of year, such as a redesign, there are some things worth implementing ahead of the holiday rush that can have an impact on sales.

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Introducing AMP Wizard for Yahoo! Store

Today I’m pleased to announce the latest product to come out of our Development Lab.  It’s one that has been in the works for several months and is what I consider a “game changer” for Yahoo! Store owners.

Introducing AMP Wizard!

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The Need for Speed Requires a Need for Launch Customers!

When it comes to browsing the web, whether it be on mobile or desktop, speed is paramount. Nobody wants to wait for pages to load, especially those using mobile devices, which is why responsive and adaptive design for websites has become the standard.

The “need for speed” forced developers and designers to build sites that load quickly, employ a minimal amount of code, and ditch many of the bells and whistles that looked pretty on a site years ago, but are just useless add-ons today.

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Going Responsive is Easier Than You Think

If you’re still using a desktop website and a mobile website, the time has come for upgrading to a responsive design.  If you’re a Yahoo! Store and haven’t updated your website to a responsive theme, the time has come – and it’s easier than you may think.

Users of Big Commerce and Shopify are most likely using responsive design as most of the core themes on these platforms are newer – but merchants that have been online and selling for many, many years are most likely still using desktop and mobile websites.

If you’re on Yahoo! Store, there’s never been a better time to go responsive and ditch the mobile website.

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Site Speed – Solutions

There are always options to improve speed, but I wanted to outline a few of the key ones and some quick pros/cons of each. Each service has their own strengths and if you really want to get aggressive, they actually can all four work together (at least on Yahoo! where our services work). One thing to note is that 3rd party services for the most part can’t be adjusted by any service. Continue reading “Site Speed – Solutions”