Being the best mantle in the battleground of ecommerce, Magento has proved itself by providing excellent features in products and services. The launching of new platform i.e. Magento 2 took over the debate of whether to adopt it as the most superior solution or not.

All the business owners having a website on Magento 1 are wondering whether to migrate to Magento 2 or not. This thought to change the platform which powers their business is scary for the business owners. Hence, to help them in making a wise decision, we have come up with some clear comparison between Magento 1 and 2. Read on to find out which are they:

The important factor in deciding whether to migrate or not from Magento 1 to Magento 2 is to compare both. When no one knows the difference between the platforms, it is easier to make a final decision.

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LOADING SPEED
Magento 1 is too fast and it is the main reason of its popularity as a ecommerce platform. The analytics say that any page takes half of the time to load on Magento 2 whenever compared to the Magento 1 loading time. This is true for a homepage, the category selection page, the product page and the CMS.

JAVASCRIPT
Along with offering lots of functionalities, Magento 1 also has limitations when it comes to the core JavaScript library. The prototype being the core JavaScript library for Magento 1, there were many compatibility and functionality issues fir JQuery libraries those are most commonly used.

It has then led to implementations those import JQuery with the Prototype and in turn slow down the platform. By removing the Prototype as a core JavaScript library and then replacing the same with the RequireJS library which has enhanced the performance by reducing number of JavaScript files those need to be called, Magento 2 has successfully resolved its shortcomings.

SUPPORTING LATEST PHP VERSIONS IN A FLEXIBLE MANNER
Magento 1 was launched in the year 2007 and was compatible with old versions of PHP those proved to be a nuisance for the web developers as new versions of PHP are more advanced than the previous ones.

When Magento 2 was released, it has a feature which supported the latest versions of PHP which made it flexible for use.

THE ADMIN PANEL IS IMPROVISED
The Magento 2 has a customized admin panel. With this, the businessmen are able to access all the necessary information quickly as per the preferences. Also, Magento 1 admin interface was extremely odd. The user interface of Magento 1 was unfriendly compared to that of Magento 2. The admin panel of Magento 2 is a upgraded version for all the ecommerce businesses those are hosted on Magento. 

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