Among thousands of options available in the market to develop a different type of e-commerce platforms with use of distinct features, Some of the best e-commerce development platforms are Magento, Shopify, OpenCart, and BigCommerce.
If you are confused to choose any one among these top most platforms, that all depends on the needs you have for development. These distinct platforms possess distinct features to develop a software in different ways.
Every platform claims itself as the fastest, SEO friendly, having more features than others actually simply that they are the best. But every platform can’t be best for you. Here we are writing everything about the most popular platforms that will be best according to your budget and business.
The reports discussed in this article are according to a research done on these platforms.
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1. Shopify
Shopify is One of the most popular platforms to develop e-commerce websites. It is not an open source platform so all the bugs and problems while development of an e-commerce website is handled by Shopify itself. Some themes available in Shopify are free and many are paid also. And the good part is that Shopify has 24/7 support for their customers.
According to reports, there are approximate 500,000 businessmen using it right now.
Price: The amount of a basic Shopify E-commerce store starts from $29 and price of websites increases according to additional features up to $299. Which implies that there are e-commerce stores available for small as well as scalable businesses.
Speed: Shopify is among the speedy platforms, the websites take only 1.98sec to load the page and for mobile platforms, it has the speed score of 63, which is also among the topmost platforms.
User experience: Shopify develops the mobile-friendly websites and have passed the Google mobile-friendly test with 89% score and has the user experience score of 94.
SEO friendly: in the SEO friendly test, Shopify manages to score 93% in it which is not a bad score at all.
2. Magento
Magento is an open-source platform available free to use as an e-commerce development platform. But that doesn’t mean that you will get everything for free. While development process there will be the need of having plugins, themes, templates and many more features that you will have to pay for but as compare to Shopify, there is definitely less cost you have to spend on the development process.
let’s see how reliable are the websites developed using Magento:
Price: according to hourly pricing, the price of development starts from $15 to $25.
Full development of a basic website having little features in it will cost from $7000 to $15,000. And the price for a fully featured website that is scalable and for larger enterprises will be from $10,000 to $25,000.
Speed: The websites build using Magento are usually have a little more loading time than other. It has 5.05 second of loading speed. And looking at mobile sites, it has managed to score 51 out of 100.
User experience: In the Google mobile-friendly test, Magento scored 59% and in providing mobile user experience, it has scored 81%.
SEO friendly: The websites build using Magento are SEO friendly, as Magento has scored 90% on the SEO friendly test.
3. OpenCart
The online store management tool is an open source means it is free to use. As I said while talking about Magento that if it is open source that doesn’t mean you can develop the store freely. You have to pay for the hosting, additional features, paid themes and plugins and much more according to your need. Although it can be said that it costs less than the platforms like Shopify and BigCommerce.
Speed: In the speed test of OpenCart shopping stores, it was revealed that it has the timing of 4.30 seconds which is not so good as in today’s time no one wants to wait even a second more for page loading. And for mobile sites, it got 53 scores out of 100.
User experience: In the user experience test, OpenCart get to score 82 scores and in the Google mobile-friendly test, it got 66%.
SEO friendly: As OpenCart stores are not much SEO friendly which has shown by the search that in SEO friendly test it gets only 44% score.
Price: Download of OpenCart is free and you can download it from official website and starting price of a website is $10.
4. BigCommerce
BigCommerce is also a privately handled platform just like Shopify. According to the company, they have managed the sale of $8 billion till now.
Price: BigCommerce has the basic plan starting with $29 per month. $79 for the plus which includes marketing tools with it and $249 for the pro that includes scalability of the business by providing advanced features. Also, there is a free trial of 15 days you get before choosing any plan.
SEO friendly: BigCommerce has the highest score in case of being SEO friendly. It has 98% od score in it which is a great score.
User experience: BigCommerce has 96% of score in providing good user experience to the mobile users. Also, it got 93% while checked for the Google mobile-friendly test. This is more than all above-discussed platforms.
Speed: The speed of the websites developed with BigCommerce is 2.41second and for the mobile sites loading pages, it has the score of 63.
Final Thoughts
So all the statistics of the top most and best e-commerce development platforms have been discussed. Now it will be much easier to choose the platform that can fulfill all the needs of your stores. You can share your favorite E-commerce platform in the comment section.
