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Magento extensions can add features to your store without custom development, but there are thousands to choose from. Sorting through them takes time, and a poor choice can slow your store down or conflict with other code. Here are the Mirasvit extensions we have found most useful for stores on Magento Open Source and Adobe Commerce, the current versions of the platform. Magento 1 reached end of life in 2020, so everything below applies to Magento 2.
Before you install anything, check that each extension is compatible with your exact Magento version, test it on a staging site and keep your extensions updated.
Advanced SEO Suite covers the technical SEO basics in one place
Mirasvit’s Advanced SEO Suite is an all-in-one SEO extension that helps improve your store’s visibility in search and reduces the manual workload of optimization. It covers many of the things that matter most for a Magento store, including meta tag templates, XML sitemaps, canonical URLs, user-friendly URLs, rich snippets and structured data, and SEO audits. It is also built to work with both Magento Open Source and Adobe Commerce, and its comprehensiveness is what first got us interested.
Search extensions help shoppers find products quickly
On-site search has a big effect on sales, because shoppers who use it are usually ready to buy. Mirasvit’s Elasticsearch and OpenSearch extension (the successor to its earlier Sphinx Search Ultimate) improves the default Magento search. It offers:
- Autocomplete and search suggestions
- Spelling correction
- More relevant results, with control over how results are ranked
Whether your catalog has a few dozen products or tens of thousands, better search helps customers find what they want sooner, and it works well on both mobile phones and desktops.
Speed tools keep your store fast
Page speed affects conversions, search rankings and server load, and Magento stores can be heavy. Magento 2 includes built-in full page caching, so the question now is how to get the most out of it. Mirasvit’s speed optimization extensions are designed to work alongside Magento’s cache, for example by warming it so visitors get fast pages instead of waiting for a page to be generated. Combine them with image compression, a content delivery network and good hosting for the best results.
Customer support tools keep service organized
A good support system improves customer relationships and saves your team time. Mirasvit offers a range of customer support extensions, including its Help Desk tools, which turn customer emails and messages into tickets inside Magento. Look for features such as two-way email parsing, file attachments and a full history of communication with each customer.
Advanced Product Feeds keep your listings in Google and other channels
Advanced Product Feeds generates product feeds automatically for shopping channels, including Google Merchant Center, Microsoft Advertising and other marketplaces. Publishing your products in these channels brings more new buyers to your store, and a clean feed is also what Google’s shopping results rely on. Key features include product filters, feed templates and analytics. In our experience, moving to a dedicated feed extension was easier to use and more stable than a basic feed setup.
Get help installing and configuring your extensions
We use other Mirasvit extensions as well, but these are our favorites. If you need help choosing, installing, configuring or customizing extensions for your Magento store, contact us today to get a Free Proposal.
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