Thread: E-Commerce Platform Choice

What are everyones thoughts on e-commerce platforms?

My original site was built on Magento and have been receiving plenty of traffic (organic) but loading time is slow and the sales on the site dont touch the volume that moves on amazon etc...

I created a shopify store and tried that as a main domain as it looks a little more graphical, clean, and has much quicker loading times. The problem here is the organic search traffic dropped to almost 0. I went from 70 organic visitors a day down to 5.

Thoughts?

FlyTime Watches - magento

FlyTime on Shopify

I've got an online store and I'm currently using Wordpress with a Templatic shopping cart theme. I'm eagerly waiting a better option that suits all my needs.
I don't know why you're traffic dropped, maybe something with the SEO in Shopify?

Lemon Stand

When I had a retail webstore, I used Magento and loved it.

Im making the full switch back over to magento. Wordpress was the orignal platform i used a long time ago but it didnt seem like it integrated too well. Magento is the best that ive used, just need to re-vamp my theme/look.

I would like to try Magento, but damn the prices are high! (I know there is a free community version)

I use the community, it works well enough.

Magento is a great platform and one of the best out there... if the loading time is slow it might be the server (too much traffic, server can't handle it) or perhaps too large images etc (but your images are just fine, so that's not the problem in this case)... had a look at your site and it's indeed loading very slowly, so I would first check with your hosting provider and ask them if the server can handle the amount of traffic you get or if you need an upgrade.

I use shopify and I LOVE it!

I use Magento, and loading times are pretty exceptional, but it didn't start off that way. My site is DYZYN, load it and see what you think about the times.

I'm pretty comfortable with Magento since I've been working on it for a while now.

1) Switch to a host that is optimized for Magento. I don't think inmotion is. Check out SimpleHelix.
2) Make sure you have cache turned on
3) Check out: Latest Performance Report for: Fly Time | GTmetrix. You're doing pretty good, but you should install Fooman Speedster to minify your CSS, HTML, and Java.
4) Also look into gzip compression: Here's how you do that Speeding Up Magento
5) Look into enabling flat category and products -- did this and loading time decreased by a nice amount!

Hope this helps!