# Upgrading Magento 2 to Mage-OS 3.6 and Hyvä: speed, support and what it does for search and ads > Magento 2.4.6 and older are out of support. What an upgrade to Mage-OS 3.6 and Hyvä changes, with real speed scores from six stores we run, before and after. URL: https://magento.zip/case-studies/magento-2-to-mage-os-hyva · Generated: 2026-11-02 09:23 UTC Adobe ended support for Magento 2.4.6 on August 11, 2026, and for every older 2.4 release before that. A store still on one of those versions gets no more regular security patches, while new bugs keep being published. Upgrading to **Mage-OS 3.6** with a **Hyvä** storefront puts it back on a supported, current platform, and on our own stores it made the storefront fast enough to score 98–100 on desktop. 6 of 6 stores at 98–100 on desktop 75 → 100 best mobile gain after tuning 2.7 MB → 50 KB one hero image, on phones $0 licence fee for Mage-OS and the Hyvä theme ### Is your Magento 2 version still supported? Adobe publishes an end date for every Magento 2.4 release line. After it, the line gets no more regular releases or security patches. | Release line | End of regular support | Status today | | --- | --- | --- | | 2.4.0–2.4.3 | Nov 28, 2022 | Ended | | 2.4.4 | Apr 12, 2025 | Ended | | 2.4.5 | Aug 12, 2025 | Ended | | 2.4.6 | Aug 11, 2026 | Ended | | 2.4.7 | May 31, 2027 | Supported, about 7 months left | | 2.4.8 | May 31, 2028 | Supported | | 2.4.9 | May 31, 2029 | Supported; Mage-OS 3.6 is built on this codebase | Unsupported is not a paperwork problem. When a critical flaw is published, supported versions get a fix and unsupported ones do not. We went through exactly that with our own server’s operating system: read how we patched 18 live sites in two days when a 9.8 Critical Linux flaw had no fix for the old version. ### What changes when you move to Mage-OS and Hyvä - **Mage-OS is Magento, kept current by its community.** It is a free, open-source distribution of Magento Open Source. Your products, customers and orders stay in the same database, and Magento extensions keep working. - **Hyvä replaces the old Luma storefront.** Luma ships jQuery, Knockout and RequireJS to every visitor. Hyvä uses Tailwind CSS and Alpine.js instead, so pages carry far less code. - **No licence fees.** Mage-OS is free, and the Hyvä theme has been free and open source since November 10, 2025 (OSL 3.0 and AFL 3.0, the same licences as Magento Open Source). - **Easier to change later.** A Hyvä theme is plain templates and Tailwind classes, so small design changes are quicker and cheaper than in Luma. ### Our six stores, measured We run six live sites on Mage-OS and Hyvä: [TGL Direct](https://www.tgldirect.com/) (vintage and collectibles), [Wallpaper-Inc](https://www.wallpaper-inc.com/), [Import Wholesales](https://www.import-wholesales.com/) (garden and hardware), [Chillicothe Market](https://www.chillicothemarket.com/), [AerialMG](https://www.aerialmg.com/) (aerial photography) and [Beth Gerber, ERA Real Estate](https://www.bethgerber.com/). On 2026-11-02 we measured every homepage with Google’s Lighthouse. **Desktop:** all six now score 98–100. Four of them already did before any tuning; the other two were held back by oversized images. **Phones** were a different story. Phones get a slower connection and processor, and every store had a few heavy images that desktop hid. So we tuned each one and measured again, the same way before and after: **Mobile Lighthouse score, before → after tuning** (grey = before, green = after) [Import Wholesales](https://www.import-wholesales.com/) (garden and hardware) 75 → **100** [AerialMG](https://www.aerialmg.com/) (aerial photography) 75 → **99** Median of 3 runs; one run on a busy test server scored 83. [Wallpaper-Inc](https://www.wallpaper-inc.com/) (wallpaper) 74 → **96** Median of 8 runs (range 71–99). [Chillicothe Market](https://www.chillicothemarket.com/) (local marketplace) 78 → **91** Median of 5 runs. [TGL Direct](https://www.tgldirect.com/) (vintage and collectibles) 75 → **91** Lighthouse's stricter slow-phone test (1.6 Mbps, 4× slower CPU); after: 88–93. Beth Gerber’s real-estate site was already fast. There we fixed accessibility instead: it went from 87 to 100, best practices from 96 to 100, and layout shift from 0.098 to 0.001. What made the difference was rarely code. It was: - **Oversized images.** Two homepages carried a 2.4–2.7 MB PNG as their main image. As WebP sized for phones, the same picture is 22–50 KB, and the main image now appears in about 1.6–2.7 seconds instead of 15–16. - **The right size for each screen.** One image file for every device means phones download desktop pictures. Responsive images send each screen the size it shows. - **Loading the first screen first.** Images in the first screen load at once; the rest wait until the visitor scrolls. - **No jumping layout.** Space is reserved for banners and bars that appear late, so the page doesn’t shift under the visitor’s thumb. - **Scripts only where they are used.** Payment scripts and styles load on cart and checkout, not on every page. We apply the same tuning when we finish an upgrade. ### What speed does for Google search and ads We will not promise a ranking or an ad price, and nobody honest can. Here is what Google itself says: - **Search:** “Core Web Vitals are used by our ranking systems.” Relevance still comes first, so speed helps most where several pages answer the same search equally well. - **Ads:** Google Ads ranks ads using, among other things, “the quality of your ads and landing page”, and says that with relevant keywords and ads “you can still win a higher position at a lower price”. A fast, useful landing page is part of that quality. - **Sales:** in a study of 37 brands commissioned by Google, Deloitte found that a 0.1-second faster mobile site went with 8.4% more retail conversions. In short: a faster store gives Google one more reason to rank and price you well, and gives shoppers one less reason to leave. ### How the upgrade works - **Assessment.** We review your Magento version, extensions, theme customisations and integrations, and give a fixed price before any work starts. - **Staging copy.** We upgrade a copy of your store, not the live one. Your database is upgraded in place, so products, customers and order history stay. - **Extensions.** Up to three third-party extensions are replaced with our own maintained ones, so future upgrades stop breaking on other vendors’ code. - **Hyvä storefront.** Your branding on a Hyvä theme, then tuned for phones as described above. - **Your sign-off.** You test the staging store. Nothing goes live until you approve it. - **Cutover and 30 days of fixes.** We switch the live store over in a short maintenance window and fix any bug you find in the first 30 days. ### Is it right for your store? - Your store runs Magento 2.4.6 or older, or 2.4.7 and you don’t want to repeat this in seven months. - Your Luma storefront feels slow, especially on phones. - Upgrades keep breaking because several vendors’ extensions fall behind. - You want one accountable developer for the upgrade, the theme and the cutover. The upgrade starts at $699.99 as a fixed package: see Magento 2 to Mage-OS + Hyvä Upgrade. Still on Magento 1? See the Magento 1 to Mage-OS + Hyvä migration. Want us to keep it fast and patched afterwards? See our managed hosting plans, or tell us about your store. *How we measured: Lighthouse 12.8.2, homepage only, mobile and desktop, several runs each with the median shown, from our own server, on 2026-11-02. Lab scores vary between runs and differ from Google PageSpeed Insights, which tests from Google’s servers. Sources: [Adobe Commerce released versions](https://experienceleague.adobe.com/en/docs/commerce-operations/release/versions), [Google Search Central: page experience](https://developers.google.com/search/docs/appearance/page-experience), [Google Ads Help: Ad Rank](https://support.google.com/google-ads/answer/1752122), [Milliseconds make millions (web.dev)](https://web.dev/case-studies/milliseconds-make-millions).* ## Links - [Page](https://magento.zip/case-studies/magento-2-to-mage-os-hyva) - [Store guide (llms.txt)](https://magento.zip/llms.txt)