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Magento / Hyvä

Hyvä
a game-changer for Magento 2.

Hyvä is a modern, high-performance frontend framework for Magento 2. It offers a significant upgrade over both off-the-shelf and custom Luma-derived Magento themes, providing a faster, more scalable solution.

PageSpeed Insights result for a Hyvä theme: 100 for performance, accessibility, best practices and SEO, with a 0.4 second largest contentful paint Hyvä Partner

Why Hyvä

Key benefits
of Hyvä.

Faster for your customers, easier for your developers, and better placed in search.

  • Improved performanceA lean, optimised codebase significantly improves page load times and overall performance, for a better user experience and higher page speed scores.
  • Enhanced scalabilityHyvä is built to handle high traffic loads and scale with your business growth, without compromising performance.
  • Simplified developmentHyvä’s modular structure and clean codebase make it a preferable choice for developers to work with and customise.
  • Modern frontend technologyHyvä uses modern frontend technologies like Alpine.js and Tailwind CSS, for a more flexible and powerful development environment.
  • Enhanced SEOHyvä’s focus on performance and mobile-friendliness can positively impact your website’s search engine rankings.
  • Active community and supportHyvä has a growing community of developers and contributors, ensuring ongoing support and development.

Side by side

Default Magento
vs Hyvä.

Frontend overhead: 0.2 megabytes with Hyvä, 1.5 megabytes with the default Magento frontend.
Comparison of Hyvä vs the default Magento frontend
Feature Default Magento frontend Hyvä
Overhead 1.5 megabytes 0.2 megabytes
Performance Average Up to 50% faster
Scalability Scalable but more reliant on server speed Increased performance can handle higher traffic
Frontend technology Older (Knockout.js, RequireJS) Modern (Alpine.js, Tailwind CSS)
SEO & PageSpeed Good scores can be achieved with a lot of work Easier to achieve high PageSpeed scores and pass Core Web Vitals

Hyvä or Breeze?

Two fast frontends
One honest recommendation.

Breeze can speed up your current design without a rebuild. Planning a new design? Hyvä is usually the way to go. We build with both.

Hyvä vs Breeze, compared
2026

+29%

Increase in sales

Supercharging global sales for a football retail leader with a high-performance Hyvä frontend.

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2025

From agency rescue to a brand new Hyvä theme.

After taking us up on our Agency Rescue offer, we proved ourselves, then built a custom, high-performance Hyvä theme.

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2025

A renowned Scottish whisky retailer live on Breeze.

A globally trusted retailer goes live with a brand new, high-performance, Breeze-based Magento 2 theme.

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Built for you

Bespoke
back on the table.

AI now lets our developers build bespoke features faster than ever. On Magento you own the code, so the features you’ve always wanted are back within budget.

Why it’s worth another look

Discuss your Hyvä project

Tell us where
the friction is.

Tell us about your store, your systems or that one job nobody wants to do on a Monday. We’ll tell you honestly whether we can help.