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Upgrade your Magento store with Hyvä Theme for faster performance, better scalability, and improved user experience.
Hyvä: A Faster Front End for Magento 2
Just when Magento 2 seemed to have peaked, Hyvä arrived and changed what a Magento storefront can be. With Shopify (a SaaS platform) and WooCommerce (a self-hosted WordPress plugin) taking over the market, Hyvä is what puts Magento 2 back on the map. It gives you more freedom than any other option, and that is exactly what we at Sookshum Labs like about it. With Hyvä, you can combine the power of Magento 2 with the speed and ease of use of a modern webshop.
What is Hyvä Theme and why should you consider It?
Hyvä Theme is a lightweight solution designed to optimize the front end of Adobe Commerce (Magento 2). It simplifies the code, focusing on speed and performance, leading to faster load times and an improved user experience.
Page Speed Optimization
We improve loading times by optimizing images, minimizing code, and implementing advanced caching strategies, for a faster, smoother experience for your users and better rankings on search engines.
Page Performance
Faster load times lead to a better user experience and higher conversion rates. Hyvä optimizes your site for speed, keeping visitors engaged and reducing bounce rates.
Simplified Code
With clean, minimal code, Hyvä makes it easier to maintain, customize, and implement changes. This reduces complexity, speeds up development, and lowers long-term costs.
Boosts SEO Score
By improving site speed and user experience, Hyvä helps your store meet Google’s Core Web Vitals, leading to better SEO rankings and increased visibility in search results.
Easy to Scale
Hyvä is built to grow with your business. It’s easily scalable, so your store can handle increasing traffic, expanding product catalogs, and new features without performance issues.
Pass Google’s Core Web Vitals
Hyvä’s lightweight front end is built to pass Google’s Core Web Vitals out of the box. By cutting unnecessary JavaScript and streamlining rendering, it helps your store hit strong LCP, INP, and CLS scores, improving both search rankings and real user experience.
Our Expertise in Hyvä Theme Development
We build custom solutions for a range of ecommerce needs. Whether that means full Magento customization, a base theme tailored to your corporate identity, or taking over and maintaining an existing store, we keep the webshop performing well.
Custom Hyvä Theme Development
We develop custom Hyvä themes based on your specific needs. Whether it’s adjusting the design or adding new features, we create a unique look and feel for your store that fits your business goals.
Previnex, Magento 1 to 2 migration
Hyvä Performance Optimization
Hyvä allows you to achieve excellent page speed scores, but this isn’t always guaranteed. Third-party scripts, poor implementations, and unoptimized code can hold your scores back. We analyze your site and fix performance bottlenecks to help you achieve the best possible results.
BST Group, three storefronts on one install
Hyvä SEO
We offer a custom-built SEO extension designed for Hyvä projects, covering the technical SEO you need (improved schema, proper tagging, HTML sitemaps, and more) to improve your site’s visibility and rankings.
Buy Nutritionals, six years on Magento
Hyvä for B2B
Hyvä is a great fit for B2B stores, offering fast performance even with complex product catalogs, bulk ordering, and custom pricing. It ensures a smooth user experience and optimizes your store for speed, helping your business scale effectively.
Buy Nutritionals, six years on Magento
Hyvä For Enterprise Businesses
Hyvä is built to handle the demands of enterprise-level businesses. It scales to manage high traffic, large product catalogs, and smooth integrations with third-party systems, keeping your store fast and efficient as it grows.
BST Group, three storefronts on one install
Hyvä Extension Development
Missing a specific extension for your Hyvä theme, or need compatibility with a payment provider? We build custom Hyvä-compatible extensions, including payment methods like Viva Smart Checkout, Quickpay, Checkout.com, and Cardstream.
Buy Nutritionals, six years on Magento
How a Hyvä Build Actually Gets Done
Four clear stages, with something you can review at every step before we move forward.
Audit & Inventory
Before we touch the frontend, we understand what’s already powering your store. We audit your Magento setup, extensions, integrations, theme, content, and existing customizations. We identify what’s worth keeping, what needs replacing, and where the current setup could hold Hyvä back.
You get: A clear technical baseline, risks, dependencies, and a prioritized development plan.
Architecture & Scope
We turn the audit into a practical Hyvä implementation plan. We define what should be native Hyvä, what needs custom development, which Magento modules need compatibility work, and how your catalog, checkout, CMS, and integrations fit into the new frontend.
You get: A defined architecture, development scope, technical approach, and clear priorities before development begins.
Build in Parallel
Magento stays at the core. Hyvä becomes the frontend built around it. We develop the theme, components, templates, CMS content, and integrations alongside the Magento backend, so real products, real data, and real business logic are considered throughout the build.
You get: A working Hyvä storefront that is progressively connected to your actual Magento setup, not a frontend prototype that needs to be rebuilt later.
Test, Document & Hand Over
Before launch, we make sure everything works together, not just that the pages load. We test key customer journeys, responsive behavior, performance, Magento functions, third-party integrations, and edge cases, and document the important parts so your team can confidently manage what’s next.
You get: A tested, production-ready Hyvä storefront, technical documentation, and a clear handover so your team can confidently manage what comes next.
Managed Accounts, Not One-Off Builds.
Real Hyvä and Magento builds for real stores: the platforms, the numbers, and what changed after launch.
Three B2B storefronts on one Magento backend
One Magento Open Source installation runs three Australian storefronts for industrial tools, health supplies and school equipment. We built it in 2020 and still run it.
3storefronts on one Magento installation
Six years keeping a supplements store fast and current on Magento
A direct-to-consumer supplements store we built on Magento in 2020 and have maintained entirely in-house since, through every upgrade since.
2020built, and maintained by us since
A B2B Magento store for protective cases and lighting
An Australian business selling protective, lighting and tool cases, with custom foam cutting. We built its Magento store for trade and retail buyers.
Where Hyvä and Magento Get Used.
Five sectors where we have built, migrated, or run Hyvä storefronts on Magento and Adobe Commerce in production.
Healthcare
Ecommerce & Retail
Fitness & Sports
Business Solutions
On-Demand Solutions
What Clients Say
Stories from teams we have built, migrated, and run Hyvä and Magento storefronts for: what the engagement looked like and what shipped.
I have been working with Sookshum Labs directly and indirectly for over two years and very much recommend this company. We have been commissioning apps and websites for our clients in the UK using Sookshum Labs development services.
Our journey into the world of eCommerce started around eight months ago. We knew what we wanted but had no idea of how to get there. Sookshum-Labs patiently guided us and worked with us, at our speed, to build an eCommerce store we are proud of. Right from the start we found them to be professional and efficient. They did what they said they would do, on time and as agreed. We never had to push them for deliverables. Their project management was tight, and I felt we were always in control of our project. I would not hesitate to work with Sookshum-Labs again.
We have been working with Sookshum Labs for close to two years and they are outstanding. We have a fairly complex ecommerce site and regardless of the problem, Vipin and his team are fast to respond, fix, and offer solutions that have really helped our company. They are incredibly strong communicators, do excellent and fast work, and I could not recommend them more highly.
I had the pleasure of working with the Sookshum Labs on various projects (Magento – mobile development) and I recommend them for their attention to details and ability to deliver high quality web design. The team went above and beyond our expectations. I would strongly recommend them.
Wonderful experience with Sookshum Labs team. Projects were estimated accurately, team was responsive and clear, launches were smooth and they were able to accommodate some complex customizations and commerce rules. Thank you!
Moved our whole mobile and web build here after our last vendor missed the timeline and blew the budget. Three stores then, five now.
I have worked with Sookshum Labs many times now. I am always impressed by their professionalism, the high quality of their work, and their timeliness in completing work by the due date. I highly recommend them to anyone in need of engineering and development services. Keep up the great work!
Sookshum Labs team are very good at what they do. I recommend them strongly.
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