Online selling, ecommerce platforms, and growing your web shop.
Selling online puts unique demands on your website. Every extra second of load time costs you sales. Cart abandonment rates hover around 70% on average, and checkout friction kills conversions faster than any competitor can. Your platform choice, hosting environment, and page speed all feed into the bottom line.
These articles cover ecommerce from the technical side: WooCommerce performance tuning, hosting requirements for product catalogues, payment gateway integrations, and the server-level settings that keep your store fast during peak traffic.
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WooCommerce 10.4.2 fixes four bugs that caused product editor crashes, broken shipping calculations, and checkout failures on WordPress 6.9 with PHP 8.4. Stores saw checkout rates recover from 73% to 94%.
