Hi there! The unstoppable march of spring is going on and on, the weather is fine with myriads of green leaves appearing on yet half-naked trees. In parallel, the same thing is happening to Magento extensions as the development has reached its bloom. Now it is the high time to provide Magento Community with the new Magento Connect statistics for the second month of spring.
In terms of growth, the extensions for the following categories are among the top four:

• Category&Product Page Enhancements (+38)
• Shipping&Fulfilment (+29)
• Shipping (+14)
• Ease of Use (+13)

aheadWorks also made its valuable contribution and introduced lots of updates for our extensions. While you’re enjoying the perfect quality and premium user experience of our products, we are ready to come back in June with the new Magento Connect statistics.

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Hooray! Take off your winter coats, mittens, scarfs and say as loud as you can: “Spring has come!” Finally, we can forget about cold nights, winter melancholy and infinite sadness. As you know, spring is the appropriate season for producing all kind of things Magento developers aren’t a big exception, so as a result, lots of new extensions are ready to meet online marketers’ needs. Now it is the right time to provide Magento Community with the new Magento Connect statistics for the first month of spring.

In terms of growth, the extensions for the following categories are among the top four:

• Images & Media (+ 54)
  Wow, it’s an astonishing result!
• Category&Product Page Enhancements (+20)
• Catalogue (+29)
• Personalization (+25)

aheadWorks also made its valuable contribution and introduced lots of updates for our extensions. While you’re enjoying the perfect quality and premium user experience of our products, we are ready to come back in May with the new Magento Connect statistics.

Stay tuned!

Hopefully, winter has almost gone and all Magento developers are ready to face the spring sun. But even during the winter slumber, they’ve been scrupulously doing their job. As a result, lots of new extensions are ready to meet online marketers’ needs with hundreds of new ones still to come. So it is the right time to provide Magento Community with the new Magento Connect statistics.

In terms of growth, the extensions for the following categories are among the top four:

• Category & Product Page Enhancements (+ 27)
  In comparison with January, this is the obvious leader for the second time in a row
• Checkout (+20)
• Advertising & Marketing (+18)
• Shipping & Fulfillment and Developer Tools (+15)

aheadWorks also made its valuable contribution to the list and introduced the Countdown Magento extension (Advertising&Marketing category) and Mobile Order Tracking Magento extension (Mobile category). While you’re enjoying the perfect quality and premium user experience of our products, we are ready to come back in April with the new Magento Connect statistics.

Stay tuned!

To be aware of the current reality and keep pace with the modern tendencies, aheadWorks has researched the popularity of e-Commerce platforms. It’s far from a comprehensive analysis but we hope it’s a good indication of the actual situation at the market. Having studied and compared the results of the recent surveys, we came to some appealing conclusions.

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Here at aheadWorks, we are really glad to see how the Magento community is growing up every month. More and more online marketers choose Magento as the platform for their ecommerce businesses. The numbers below only prove it, so please take a look at our new Magento Connect statistics.

In comparison with the number of 4659 extensions and themes (with 3356 paid and 1303 free ones) in September, the quantity has grown to 4867 (up to 4.4%) by October 1. This number includes 3518 (up to 4.8%) and 1349 (up to 3.5%) paid & free extensions and themes respectively.

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Today is September 2 meaning that the hot season of summer is over. But luckily, this nostalgic feeling hasn’t influenced our will to continue the research we started in July. As we promised in our report published on August 9, we return with new Magento Connect statistics.

In comparison with the number of 4534 extensions and themes (with 3262 and 1272 paid and free ones) in July, the quantity has grown to 4659 (up to 2.7%) by September 1. This numeric includes 3356 (up to 2.9%) and 1303 (up to 2.4%) paid & free extensions and themes respectively.

We decided to find out a number of extensions and themes released in August solely. We discovered that the statistics are nearly the same: 149 extensions and 46 themes appeared on Magento Connect on August 1 – August 31, 2011.

This data means that a stable number of new extensions and themes appears monthly providing the Magento community with new opportunities for their online business.

aheadWorks is looking forward to continue the research and we’ll be back in October. Stay tuned!

Hi there! It’s a perfect day for Magento store owners! Each month we highlight a store from our clients base and listen to what vendors say about Magento extensions they have chosen to organize a proper work and make their customers’ experience a smooth one. This is one of the most important things the store owner needs to accomplish when selling anything online, whether that includes services or products.

If you would like to share your site with Magento society, please contact us at korol@aheadworks.com and provide us with the details of your website.

Today we are talking to Raul Zendejas, who invited us to view his website mjrsales.com. MJR sales is a warehouse store known for buying and selling in the discount business for almost 20 years.

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It is really amazing to see how the Magento community is growing with every passing year. Nowadays, more and more online marketers use Magento for their ecommerce business. According to statistics made by our colleague in Magento promotion Tom Robertshaw in June 2011, Magento is the leading ecommerce platform in the world.

aheadWorks Co. is really proud to be among the people who made it happen and we are looking forward to share our knowledge and experience with everyone in the community. In a role of a leading provider of Magento extensions, we do our best to contribute to Magento universe and turn this platform into a long-term leader in a world of eCommerce.

Thus, as a part of this strategy, we decided to make our own research. Our goal was to find out how many extensions and themes appear at Magento Connect monthly. Although summer seems to be a vocational time of the year, still more and more extensions and themes appear every month.

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Today we’d like to announce that a new section is now live in our Blog. So, what can you expect from this section? We’re going to talk to our amazing clients, go behind the scenes with their Magento stores, post their experience in using aheadWorks extensions, spill secrets on customization, and much more. We’re going to describe pros and cons of the extensions they use, their impact on the sales, thus promoting the stores, including backlinks and screen shots.

Want to boast about your store? So go ahead and let us help you promote your website. Send us an email at korol @ aheadworks.com and provide the store URL and a brief store description. We’ll look through your site and maybe your Magento store will be featured next month.

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