All right, New Year 2023 has come. Fresh projects, fresh ideas, new prospects for the future.
And when a bit to summarize the last year, it is possible to say, that SwissUpLabs together with our clients kept the business running very well. We've all obtained good results.
Your wishes and requirements have allowed us to continue our work around Magento. We expanded our services in response to users' demand and released new products. That is what we are going to do in the post - to show many things we added to our work in 2022.
We believe they will get your websites to the top. Let's review solutions that helped to expand the e-commerce built on Magento 2.
A thank-you message
First, thank you for choosing us to serve your company’s needs. We at SwissUpLabs truly appreciate your business, and we’re so grateful for the trust you’ve placed in us.
Your feedback helps us set the direction and develop new tools up-to-date with top e-commerce technology trends. It’s been a pleasure to provide you with Magento 2 products and services. We hope we can keep up to offer you the best and the fastest solutions in the years to come.
When revisiting our long-lasting partnership we decided to keep all the old prices for subscription plans. We have been announcing it since early February. The main goal of the subscription-based model is to offer the best products to clients for a lower price. It is very advantageous for a new store launch when you have to buy a lot of modules at once. A subscription plan model helps to reduce the eCommerce website cost. Therefore we kept our license and pricing under the same terms and money.
We want you to feel comfortable with us to grow your business effortlessly.
Be up-to-date about Magento 2
We assume it can be hard to stay on top of the latest news and updates of Magento that you've chosen to build a successful online business. And here we are. To help your website stay on top of the latest Magento developments and enhancements in security and performance, we publish related articles on blog pages.
In October, we tested our modules and themes with Magento 2.4.5 version and proved its compatibility. You could see a rundown of great updates to modernize your store.
In addition, we have continued on the PWA path. Our last guide helps you to:
- prepare Magento instance for work with PWA-studio
- configure PWA environment variables
- build your PWA-studio storefront project.
If you are still a newbie in turning a website on the PWA frontend, we got your back with our earlier guide. Start using Magento 2 PWA Studio on your hosting right now.
As you know, every month we offer a monthly report with fresh improvements for Magento 2 themes and extensions. It is important to be informed about new possible features as well as advantageous options for the Magento front. We hope that the publications on our blog will help you to keep abreast of the updates in the ecommerce websites area.
So we talked about the fastest front solutions in the beginning. Let us continue.
What is the fastest?
Breeze. That was what immediately leaps to mind when most of us hear "the fastest" word. Most of you have heard about Breeze frontend, and so many users already set up their stores on the alternative JS front. As a result, to date 200 stores are built with Breeze front.
Rome wasn’t built in a day just like our fast and modern front end. The first commit in the Breeze project was on 26.01.2021, and since then the developers didn't stop working for a day. And then in the winter months of 2021-2022, we released Breeze Blank and Breeze Evolution themes. Our goal was to give Magento 2 the new simple default frontend that is lightning-fast and easy to customize. A great bonus is those Breeze themes are completely free.
To simplify the experience, we built an excellent documentation site Breezefront.com. Users can see there the detailed info about the Breeze module and theme structure, styles, JS components, settings description, modules compatibility, etc.
So no wonder the Breeze front began to be actively downloaded.
The matter is that store owners really need the alternative to the default Magento 2 Luma. They're tired of slow-loading sites. Poor performance has become a pitfall in rankings and website traffic. This is how new solutions are born. Call Breeze our contribution to Magento 2 community faster world.
Nowadays the alternatives for Magento frontend development are mainly based on JavaScript. Breeze front is free of heavy javascript. We replaced all built-in scripts with their own simplified implementation. Breeze makes store times faster due to keeping file sizes the smallest. How much faster?
Our Breeze products provide revolutionary changes to Magento 2 frontend speed scores. You must know that Breeze enables 95+ on desktop performance and 90+ on mobile page speed on the Google PageSpeed Insights test. Good performance, next a good ranking in search engines, high traffic, and since then a store's success goes like a snowball.
From these results, it is clear why a couple of hundred stores replaced the default Magento Luma theme with the Breeze storefront. Some clients see incredible speed results even after a month of using the Breeze theme. Here is https://leathercollection.com/ performance report, for example.
With Breeze front, a 90+ PageSpeed score is guaranteed as well as easy maintenance, easy integration with third-party modules, and an easy web development experience. Try it out. We hope your experience will be awesome and we can’t wait for new clients to contact us soon.
By the way, we released the module that contains Breeze integrations with third-party modules. You can set the module for your software deployment. In 2022 many web studios and solo developers joined us to offer Breeze module integration services. See the list of Breeze-compatible modules and partners.
We continue to invite developers to contribute to the Breeze. Let's work together to improve Magento 2 ecosystem.
In continuation of the Breeze, it is necessary to mention the Argento theme impact. And so to speak they have started to work.
Argento and Breeze good job
In addition to Argento theme compatibility with the Breeze module, we released new super-fast templates for Magento 2. The premium Argento Force Breeze and Argento Stripes Breeze themes create a new episode in the life of the fastest Magento 2 front.
Argento has come a long way from the premium Magento 2 theme to the template with a reduced JS stack. For now, there are two designs available with Breeze JS, but we plan to release more in the future.
We consider Argento Breeze themes as the fantastic replacement for Luma to create the fastest frontend for Magento 2 stores. To move up in the eCommerce templates world, it helps Argento its modern designs, built-in speed technologies, and fantastic options set by Magento 2 modules
Here you can see demo for:
- https://argento-breeze-m2.swissupdemo.com/force_breeze/
- https://argento-breeze-m2.swissupdemo.com/stripes_breeze/
Besides Argento template itself got new 1.28.0, 1.29.0, 1.30.0, 1.31.0, 1.32.0, 1.33.0, 1.34.0 versions in 2022. We always present the list of updates. To learn more go to the Updates page.
140 releases for Magento 2 modules
Since we mentioned Magento 2 modules, let us specify the number of updated versions released in 2022.
We’ve been putting new improvements all over the year. 40+ extensions were updated to help your store offer the best customer experience.
Well,
FireCheckout - 12, Checkout Success Page - 5, Navigation Pro - 2, Helpdesk - 4, Order Attachments - 2, Product Questions (Ask It) - 7, Ajax Pro- 11, Product Highlight - 4, Ajax Layered Navigation - 8, Easy Banners - 4, Address Fields Manager - 2, Address Autocomplete - 1, Customer Fields Manager - 1, Sold Together - 4, GDPR - 5, Social Login - 3, ReCAPTCHA - 4, Page Speed - 10, Full Page Cache Warmer - 6, Lightbox Pro - 1, Vat Number Validation - 1, Product Labels - 2, Knowledge Base - 3, Page Builder - 1, GeoIp - 1, Rich Snippets - 2, Attributes And Brands Pages - 2, Abandoned cart - 1, SEO Suite toolkit - 2, Accelerated Mobile Pages - 1, PDF Invoices - 3, Review Reminder - 2, Easy Slider - 1, Ajax Search and Autocomplete - 5, MySQL Legacy Search - 3, Delete Orders - 1, Akismet - 2, SMTP Email - 2, Testimonials - 2, Product Tabs - 6, Easy Flags - 1, Easy Catalog Images - 2.
Magento developing services
Did you know that SwissUpLabs could deliver different Magento 2 services at affordable prices?
We pride ourselves on offering Magento 1 to 2 migration services, installation, and configuration service, third-party integration services, support and customization services, and much more.
Our clients know that we can put a custom theme on the website to give it the look you expected. They know that we try to resolve all possible issues through all forces. Our team is always open to new suggestions to help you manage the store seamlessly.
We appreciate our loyal customers for choosing SwissUpLabs in 2022 as a service provider:
Thanks for expanding eCommerce with us. We look forward to serving you in the coming months!
In case you are a new customer, for additional advice or assistance, contact us at https://swissuplabs.com/contacts. We hope our collaboration will bear fruit.
On a final note
We summed up what the past year has meant to SwissUpLabs. We want to thank you once again for your partnership and wish you a very prosperous and happy New Year. Let's be hopeful that the 2023 year will be full of many opportunities for us to work in synergy with each all of our customers.
Our team is always excited to hear feedback from you. Welcome to reach out with any questions or concerns that you may have. Please feel free to contact us anytime.
