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Documentation, how-tos, and best-practice articles for the BelVG audit tools.
Ecommerce Image Optimization: How Leading Stores Keep Product Pages Fast
Images and video are the heaviest thing on almost every product page, and the single most common reason a store fails its…
Ecommerce Structured Data: How Top Stores Win Rich Results and AI Search
Search results stopped being ten blue links a while ago. A product now competes for a result with a price, a star…
Ecommerce Site Speed: How the Fastest Stores Pass Core Web Vitals
Core Web Vitals are now both a Google ranking input and the closest thing there is to a measure of how a…
Magento vs Shopware: Enterprise Flexibility vs Modern Consistency
“Magento vs Shopware” is usually a question from someone building or replatforming something serious, and they want to know which one wins.…
Shopify vs Magento: Simplicity vs Control
“Shopify vs Magento” is usually typed by someone who wants a winner. Our benchmark scanned 80,000 live stores, 20,000 on each of…
How to Choose an Ecommerce Platform in 2026: The Real Tradeoffs
We scanned 80,000 stores across Shopify, Shopware, Magento, and PrestaShop. The data does not name a best platform. It names a tradeoff,…
Why PrestaShop Stores Struggle to Rank
PrestaShop gives you the SEO controls, then scatters them across the version, the theme, the core settings, and a stack of modules.…
Why Magento 2 Stores Underperform on SEO Out of the Box
Magento gives you more SEO control than any other platform here. It also ships using almost none of it, which is why…
Why Shopify Stores Struggle With SEO
Shopify scores near the top of the benchmark on technical SEO. That is exactly why the things it does not do for…
Why Your PrestaShop Order Emails Land in Spam
Your store is sending the emails. The problem is that nothing tells your customers’ mail providers to trust them. Here is the…
Is Your Admin Panel Exposed? What 80,000 Audits Show About Self-Hosted Stores
The most damaging security problems are rarely dramatic. They are doors left open: an admin login anyone can find, files that were…
Why PrestaShop Stores Load Slowly: The Image Setting Most Miss
PrestaShop slowness gets blamed on hosting and themes. The benchmark points at something smaller and more fixable: the format your product images…