eCommerce store powered  by Magento enables customers to have a fast and convenient online shopping experience. With the use of extensions, a Magento developer can even add more features and extend the functionality of the website and make the portal much more functional and powerful. Magento extensions can also be integrated with other web services, themes, marketing tools, and more in Magento powered websites.

Here are some of the top freely available Magento extensions, that you can make use of too in your Magento powered website:

Catalog Search Refinement is used to make the search results on the website more relevant. This extension makes the search result more meaningful when there are multiple search terms. When a user enters multiple keywords in the search box, Magento’s default search usually searches the products that contain ANY of the searched keywords. And this leads to an inaccurate search result because Magento searches everything that matches those keywords. This extension helps in smart search and gives accurate search results thus giving  the website visitors a better search experience. For example when a user enters ‘cake moulds’ in the search field, the Catalog Search Refinement searches everything that matches the word cake and mould.

Fooman Speedster combines multiple CSS files and JavaScript files to a single CSS and JavaScript files. By this, the page load in an e-commerce store become faster.  It helps to reduce the file size that has to be loaded with multiple HTTP requests.

The main features of this extension are:

• Fully automated
• Automatic versioning when the CSS and JavaScript files are updated
• Creates expire headers for CSS and JavaScript files
• Multi-store

There is no need to complete numerous forms for the successful registration.  Facebook Connect extension allows the users to log in to the e-commerce store with the help of their Facebook accounts. The clients can log in to the e-commerce using the Facebook account and also has access to following added features:

• All the product pages have the Like feature
• Recent activity widgets

Multiple Select In Layered Navigation is a simple Magento extension that makes the e-commerce store navigation more user-friendly and flexible. It allows the e-commerce store customer to apply multiple values of the same filter criteria. This extension does not have any admin configuration; it just works as it is. The following are the main features of this extension:

• 100% open source
• Works well with any attribute filter and price filter
• Custom design-ready
• Localization-ready

Searchanise Magento extension delivers search results to the customers instantly. These extension type, show relevant products, special offers, categories and discounts in a single widget. The autocomplete widget of this extension is highly customizable, and it fits any storefront design. Searchanise Magento theme offers useful tools that will help the e-commerce developer to effectively make use of the store search to improve the conversion rates that will lead to better profits. The main features of this extension are:

• Ensure that the search is smarter by adding synonyms
• Define custom and redirects for a particular search terms
• Show ads and promote products displayed in the instant search widget
• Get the full view with advanced analytics
• Optimize search for multiple devices like phones and tablets
 

Swatches on the product details page. It substitutes the drop-down custom options or the configurable product options. Thumbnail images are used for selecting custom options like size, color, and types.

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