Archive for August, 2010

The GartnerGroup estimates that by the end of 2012, there will be 150 million people using mobile devices to purchase goods and services worldwide.

An ABI Research study predicted that shoppers will order $2.2 billion in physical goods via mobile devices in 2010 and by 2015, $119 billion worth of goods and services will be purchased via a mobile phone.

The data is clear – the trends speak for themselves – now is the time for you to develop and implement a mobile e-commerce strategy.

If your Magento store has been running for any amount of time, you may be seeing your database growing beyond what you expected. Magento does some of its logging to the database and unless those log tables are cleaned out periodically they can quickly get quite large.

To set up automatic log cleaning, go to ADMIN: System->Configuration->System tab->Log Cleaning panel. Set the “Enable” field and the number of days worth of logs to save. (Set this according to your needs and server capacity.) Then set the frequency for ongoing log cleaning. (Remember, cron must be set up and running so this can be scheduled.)

If your version of Magento doesn’t have the Log Cleaning feature, you’ll want to manually clean out the log_visitor and log_url tables every once in awhile. Either of these methods will help keep your database size in check.