SOUTHFIELD, Mich., Feb. 2, 2016 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- via PRWEB - Nexcess, a provider of performance-optimized Magento hosting and a Magento Gold Hosting Partner, has announced full support for Magento 2's stable release; which has actually been available on their platform since an early beta. Magento 2 offers substantially improved performance, hundreds of bug fixes, and an enhanced user experience, especially on mobile devices.
Magento is a hugely popular eCommerce application used by tens of thousands of retailers across the world. Perhaps the most important difference in Magento 2 is its overall performance. Catalogue and checkout performance has been improved with a 50% reduction in page load times. Performance is key to providing a positive shopping experience and it has a direct impact on eCommerce conversion rates.
"In our extensive testing of Magento 2, we found that under real-world conditions, performance was significantly better than the latest release from the 1.X line," commented Chris Wells, President and CEO of Nexcess, "Combined with a refined user experience for both retailer and customer, Magento 2 is a great complement to our performance-optimized hosting platform, which has been customized to make the most of Magento 2's performance enhancements."
Magento 2 builds on seven years of eCommerce experience to bring retailers and their customers an online shopping experience designed for 2016. Magento 2 benefits from a new touch-friendly administration user experience with flexible data grids, an simplified checkout that improves conversion rates by reducing complexity, and much faster record imports, among numerous other enhancements.
Nexcess is a global hosting provider with high-performance Magento 2 hosting plans based in the US, the EU, and Australia. Plans range from shared Magento hosting to dedicated servers and custom enterprise Magento clusters.
About Nexcess
Nexcess is a Southfield, Michigan-based managed Magento hosting company founded in 2000, with data centers distributed throughout the United States, Europe, and Australia. Nexcess offers a variety of Magento hosting services ranging from entry-level packages to custom clustered/complex hosting configurations, with an emphasis on achieving maximum performance for high-profile stores. For more information, visit http://www.nexcess.net.
This article was originally distributed on PRWeb. For the original version including any supplementary images or video, visit http://www.prweb.com/releases/2016/01/prweb13181976.htm