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Top Five Ways To Overcome Magento 2 Migration Challenges

22 Apr 2019

Mike Patel

With Magento pulling support for its 1.x platform, the Magento 1 website owners are approaching ioVista, a leading Magento Agency in Dallas, Texas to Migrate to Magento 2 hassle-free.
Moreover, the new Magento 2 version, Magento 2.3.1 being the latest comes with many new features to improve the customer experience, store functionality, and ease-up the admin. It makes the reason to upgrade from Magento 1 to Magento 2 stronger than ever.
Moving your store to Magento 2 is a crucial task as it involves huge investments in terms of time, money, and efforts. However, you can make it a smooth sailing journey for your store by taking measures like backing up your data, migrating during the non-holiday season and more. Let’s have a look at what cautions you need to take while migrating to Magento 2:

1) Take Measures for the Performance of your Site

As you migrate to Magento 2, the performance of your website might slow down. There are ways to mitigate this problem, however. The first is to review your whole site and see how much, if any, you can optimize your website to have it perform at a state in which visitors don’t sense something weird is going on.
Secondly, you should consider picking a certain time of year to upgrade, in which transactions on your website might not be at its peak. Don’t migrate during periods like the holidays, during sales, or right after you release a hot new product in your store. If you sell coats, for instance, and no summer wear, then consider choosing the summer as your time to migrate to Magento 2.
Thirdly, it might also be a good idea to inform your regular visitors and subscribers of the changes that you are going to make with your website. Remind them that they might experience slowdowns and other issues with the site, but it is all going towards having a more responsive and better website overall. Keep your customer in the know of what is going on, and you should expect fewer frustrations from them as you make your big move.

2) Make Provision for your Database

Transferring data from one version of Magento to the other is a challenging task. If you don’t have the technical prowess to ensure a safe data transfer, you may be subject to lose some, most or even all of your data.
However, you can have hassle-free data transfers by creating a backup copy of your Magento store to a separate cloud server. If by chance you lose anything from your store, you will have an extra copy of it ready for Magento 2.

3) Devising you Store with New Magento 2 Themes and Extensions

Many eCommerce store owners misunderstand that migration to Magento is similar to general Magento updates. However, it is not just an “update” as you need to build almost everything for your store from scratch because you can’t use your existing themes and Magento 1 extensions for Magento 2. The most popular ways for Magento theme migration are
• buy a new ready-to-use Magento 2 theme and customize it
• create a totally new design based on the current theme
Also, replace your existing Magento 1 extensions with the similar ones in Magento 2.

4) Perform a Site Audit and Promote your New Website Massively

When you migrate your site from Magento 1 to Magento 2, the URLs for products, categories, and CMS pages may change on the new platform. You may face duplicate content issues due to erroneous canonical URLs, new page structures, broken internal links and more.
However, you can deal with that through some easy to implement solutions.
• Figure out existing 404 error pages in the new site and fix them by using proper 301 redirections your webmaster tool.
• Handle all of the canonical URLs for layer navigation, product sorting, and pagination properly to avoid duplicate content.
• Format all internal links as per Magento 2 rules.
• Perform a comprehensive site audit once your Magento 2 migration is complete.

5) Wisely Invest your Time and Money

The cost and duration of Magento 2 Migration depend totally on the theme you choose, the number of extensions your store has, and the need for custom development for your store. On average it takes around 2 to 6 months to migrate your Magento store.
We would suggest, plan in advance, offer ample time to your store and Magento agency to have things running smoothly again. Also, as mentioned above, choose a low sale season for Magento 2 Migration.

Mike Patel

Mike Patel is the Founder and CEO of ioVista, a leading digital commerce agency specializing in eCommerce solutions. With a strong background in business and technology, Mike Patel has been at the forefront of driving digital transformations for businesses. He has successfully navigated the ever-changing landscape of eCommerce, helping companies leverage the power of online platforms to grow their brand, increase revenues, and optimize their digital presence. Under his leadership, ioVista has become a trusted partner with major technology companies: Adobe/Magento, Google, BigCommerce, Shopify, and Yahoo. He is dedicated to staying ahead of industry trends, adopting cutting-edge technologies, and continuously improving strategies to provide clients with a competitive edge. Mike’s commitment to excellence and client satisfaction is evident in every project ioVista undertakes.

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