With November’s list of sites running Magento, I thought it would be fun (don’t judge me) to look at how many of them were still using the default favicon.
This was a pretty easy process: for each store, I retrieved the favicon and calculated the MD5 hash of it. I then compared it with the MD5 hash of the Magento favicon 
Out of the 3414...
Last month I looked at how many Magento sites I could find in the Alexa top 1 million. So that I had a benchmark to compare against I also looked for osCommerce installations.
This month, I’ve expanded the signature set to cover a wider range of popular eCommerce software/packages. Magento still takes the top spot, this month with 3414 sites - 150 more than last month. 77 of these sites were found to...
I thought it might be more convenient for magento developers to have my pre-launch checklist in PDF form so here you go.
I’ve been thinking for a while that it would be interesting to look at the sites in the Alexa Top 1 Million and determine how many of them were using Magento. This weekend I finally got around to writing a script to investigate this. I looked for a few ways to identify Magento and then used some basic regular expressions to...