How long does Hyvä migration take in 2026?

14 calendar days for the fixed-fee $2,499 sprint on a small store with under 20 extensions and minimal customisation. Below that, you're either using a default Hyvä theme as-is (no porting) or rushing QA. Honest floor is 2 weeks for any real migration.

Yes, most of my projects run alongside the client's normal development. The Luma site keeps running until the staging-to-production cutover. New features can be added to the Luma codebase during migration, but they need to be ported to Hyvä before launch. Easier to freeze features during migration if possible.

1-2 weeks for the standalone $499 audit. Output is a written report: per-extension compatibility matrix, custom-code inventory, line-itemised hour estimates, and a risk register. Audit cost rolls into the migration if you proceed within 30 days.

Zero to 5 minutes on Magento Open Source with proper DNS pre-warming. On Adobe Commerce with blue-green deploy, zero downtime is standard. The 4-6 hour launch window is mostly monitoring, not downtime.

Development happens during my working hours (India Standard Time, with global-client overlap). Production launch is scheduled at the client's lowest-traffic window, usually a weekend evening in the client's timezone.

For small stores, code. For mid-market and enterprise, QA. Every additional stakeholder who needs to sign off adds 1-3 days to each QA round. Two QA rounds × 4 stakeholders × 3 days = 24 calendar days just for sign-offs. This is why a single decision-maker matters.

Yes. Every project gets a staging URL from day 3, and I push updates daily. Weekly 30-minute sync call to review progress, demo new pages, and adjust scope. Slack/email access throughout for ad-hoc questions.

If a delay is on my side, my hours are capped at the original quote, you don't pay for my over-runs. If a delay is on the client side (slow sign-off, scope creep, late content), additional hours are billed at $25/hr with prior approval. This is in every contract.

Yes, for mid-market and enterprise. Bringing in a second senior Hyvä developer can compress a 10-week timeline to 6 weeks. Cost premium is roughly 15-25% because of coordination overhead, not 2× because two devs don't ship 2× faster.

Immediately at launch. Hyvä's frontend is fundamentally smaller and faster than Luma's, LCP typically drops 30-60% on mobile from day one. Field data in Search Console takes 28 days to catch up because of the rolling CrUX window.