LiquidLab Blog | Magento, Hyvä and performance

Articles on Magento 2, Hyvä, migrations, and e-commerce performance optimization.

• The Magento Security Checklist Every Store Owner Should Run in 2026

  Most Magento breaches are unpatched known vulnerabilities on stores nobody was maintaining, which is exactly what SessionReaper proved. Here is the practical, boring, effective security checklist every store owner should be able to answer yes to in 2026.

  October 23, 2026

• Magento and e-Factura: The Compliance Guide for Romanian Merchants

  e-Factura is mandatory for any Magento store selling in Romania, and enforcement is tightening. Here is what the SPV system requires, the deadlines that already passed, and what it actually takes to make a Magento store issue compliant invoices.

  October 16, 2026

• Magento Core Web Vitals: How We Get Stores to 90+ and Keep Them There

  Core Web Vitals is both a Google ranking signal and one of the clearest conversion levers you have. Here is what the three metrics actually measure, why Magento stores fail them by default, how we get a store past 90 on PageSpeed, and what it takes to keep it there.

  October 9, 2026

• Hyva Checkout and the Paid Parts of Hyva: What Is Worth Buying in 2026?

  The Hyva theme core went free and open source, but Checkout and the new Enterprise suite still carry a license. Here is exactly what each paid piece costs in 2026, what it replaces, and the honest test for whether it earns its price on your store.

  October 2, 2026

• Adobe Commerce vs Magento Open Source in 2026: Which One Do You Actually Need?

  Adobe Commerce and Magento Open Source run on the same core, but one carries a five- or six-figure license and one is free. Here is what the paid tier actually buys in 2026, and the honest test for which side of the line you belong on.

  September 25, 2026

• In-House or Agency? The Honest Magento Maintenance Decision

  The in-house versus agency question is really five smaller questions about skills, workload, coverage and cost shape. Here is the honest decision matrix, when each model wins, and the hybrid most serious stores actually end up running.

  September 15, 2026

• What Magento Maintenance Actually Costs in 2026 (and What Drives the Price)

  Ask what Magento maintenance costs and you will get answers from 50 to 5,000 EUR a month, all calling themselves the same thing. Here is what actually drives the price, the honest market ranges, and the questions that expose an offer with nothing inside.

  September 8, 2026

• The Complete Magento Maintenance Guide for 2026: Monthly, Quarterly, Annual

  Magento maintenance is not hosting and it is not luck. It is a fixed set of tasks on a fixed cadence. Here is the complete 2026 checklist, monthly, quarterly and annual, with the one story that shows what skipping a single month actually costs.

  September 1, 2026

• Shopify to Magento Migration in 2026: The Honest 6-Phase Playbook

  Thinking about moving from Shopify to Magento? Here is the real 6-phase sequence, honest timelines, what breaks along the way, and the two risks almost nobody mentions before you commit budget and a launch date.

  August 18, 2026

• The Real Cost of Shopify Plus in 2026 (What the Advertised Price Hides)

  The advertised Shopify Plus fee is EUR 2,100 to 2,250 a month. The realistic all-in spend for a mid-market merchant is two to four times that. Here is what actually drives the gap, and an honest look at what the Magento Open Source floor costs instead.

  August 14, 2026

• Shopify B2B Limitations in 2026: The Real Walls You Hit at Scale

  Your wholesale customers want more pricing tiers than Shopify allows, and your team is stitching together spreadsheets to cover credit limits and PO approval. Here is exactly where Shopify B2B hits its ceiling, and what a Magento setup does differently.

  August 11, 2026

• Hyvä in Romania: Why Now Is the Right Moment

  Why Romanian Magento merchants should be looking at Hyva right now. Not evangelism, a business case. Speed becomes real revenue on RO mobile networks, small markets reward fast shipping, and MM France 2026 confirmed the direction. With Vitacom's exact before and after.

  July 28, 2026

• SessionReaper and the Real Cost of Owning a Magento Store in 2026

  SessionReaper hit 81% of Magento stores with attack traffic in six weeks. Here is what CVE-2025-54236 actually was, why patch rates were similarly slow on Adobe Commerce, and what running a self-hosted Magento store responsibly actually requires.

  July 25, 2026

• Should You Migrate to Hyva? An Honest Decision Tree

  Hyva is not a magic wand. If your TTFB is 15 seconds because your backend is drowning, Hyva changes nothing. Here is the honest decision tree we use with merchants before we take migration money: three checks, real numbers, and when to say no.

  July 14, 2026

• Your Hyvä Store Is Still Slow. Here Is Why.

  You paid for Hyvä and the store is still sluggish. The theme is almost never the reason. Here is what actually causes it, and how one store went from PageSpeed 12 to 100 without changing platform.

  July 1, 2026

• Meet Magento France 2026: What Actually Mattered

  Meet Magento France 2026: six signals merchants should act on. Uniwax's 29x conversion, search as salesman, Somfy on Magento, Willem's AI closing, Ivan's sub-150ms TTFB, and Maison Kitsuné at year three.

  June 28, 2026

• How Much Does Magento Development Actually Cost in 2026?

  Magento development in 2026 comes in three shapes: a 999 EUR audit at one end, a full B2B replatform at the other, and a takeover retainer in between. This is the budget conversation LIQUIDLAB has on every discovery call, written down in one place. Real hours, honest scoping.

  June 15, 2026

• Magento Maintenance: Three Tests You Can Run Before Monday

  You do not need another generic Magento maintenance checklist. You need to know if your store is bleeding today. Three concrete tests you can run from a browser or SSH in 30 minutes, plus the Vitacom rescue: TTFB from 15,814ms to 12ms, PageSpeed from 12 to 100.

  May 4, 2026

• Hyvä Developers Paradise 2026: What Merchants Actually Need to Know

  Key takeaways from Hyvä Developers Paradise 2026 in Marbella, explained from a merchant perspective rather than a developer one. POS launch, Magento comeback data, roadmap features, and what it means for your store.

  April 25, 2026

• Two Romanian Language Packs for Magento. One of Them Is Five Years Old.

  If you searched "magento romanian language pack" you probably installed the bratucornel version, last updated June 2021. An actively maintained alternative sits at magento-l10n, synced from Crowdin, refreshed last month. Why to switch, and how to switch in three commands.

  April 14, 2026

• Hyva Is Now Fully Open Source: What Changes for Magento Merchants in 2026

  On November 10, 2025, Hyva Theme became fully open source and free. The old per-store license is gone, but Checkout, Commerce, and Enterprise stayed paid. Here is what actually changed in the Magento cost equation, and what did not.

  November 20, 2025