Eric sent an email to our Elias team earlier today with a few observations that are worth sharing about Magento:

1. Magento hit its 500,000th download about 3 weeks ago
2. A couple months ago there were usually about 300 people on average at any given point signed in to Magento’s website. Recently that number has more than doubled to 1200.
3. Release 1.1.7 just came out.

We recently completed a Magento project for Route29.com. They sell candy online using a Magento store and were in need of our development services on a tight timeframe. We were responsible for building out the design they supplied and some customization to meet their unique needs. Visit their site, check out our work…

Route29 Magento Store

Google released new analytics functionality yesterday.  Check out the custom reporting capability (demo video below)!  They have 80-90 preconfigured reports for various metrics (adwords performance, ecommerce, etc…).  These reports will make a fantastic suppliment to Magento’s existing integration with Google analytics.