Comparison of Wordpress Woocommerce with Magento Community Edition

Cezary Cichocki

cez.cichocki@gmail.com
Institute of Computer Science, Lublin University of Technology, Nadbystrzycka 36B, 20-618 Lublin, Poland (Poland)

Abstract

This article compares two open source platforms supports e-commerce, such as: Wordpress with Woocommerce plugin and Magento Community Edition. The paper shows pros and cons of both systems. The main functionalities of them were tested and showed. Based on research - conducted measuring the speed of web page load by using online tools such as Google PageSpeed Insights and system popularity analysis based on social media and Internet forums, conclusion were made.


Keywords:

e-commerce; cms; wordpress woocommerce; magento

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Published
2018-09-30

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Cichocki, C. (2018). Comparison of Wordpress Woocommerce with Magento Community Edition. Journal of Computer Sciences Institute, 7, 132–137. https://doi.org/10.35784/jcsi.661

Authors

Cezary Cichocki 
cez.cichocki@gmail.com
Institute of Computer Science, Lublin University of Technology, Nadbystrzycka 36B, 20-618 Lublin, Poland Poland

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