| Rank on this site | 4 of 8 (see the ranking) |
| Headquarters | Groningen, Netherlands |
| Founded | 2011 |
| Size as stated | 22 people, as stated on elgentos.com |
| Website | elgentos.com |
| Hyvä tier | Platinum Partner (hyva.io) |
| Best for | Choose elgentos when a wholesale or manufacturing store on Hyvä stalls on configurators or a badly tuned Varnish, and you want a team that publishes its cache work and its real user monitoring results. |
| Not for | Not for a merchant outside the Netherlands and Belgium who needs a large team on call, or for a store whose problem is the hosting tier itself; its site describes a 22-person flat organization with most clients in those two countries. |
| Pricing as stated | A phased proposal after a 30-minute intro call, per elgentos.com; Magento 2 Total Care is offered at a fixed monthly fee, amount not published. |
What the published record shows
elgentos states on its site that it is at Hereweg 120-4 in Groningen, has been a B2B specialist since 2011, and is 22 people in a flat organization with most clients in the Netherlands and Belgium. hyva.io lists it as a Hyvä Platinum Partner and describes it as a pioneering Hyvä partner from the outset, specializing in B2B stores and product configurators. No Clutch profile was found for it, and no team size beyond its own statement is on a third-party page.
The four services on its homepage are Magento 2 Total Care, described as operation, monitoring, security updates and continuous delivery for a live Magento 2 platform at a fixed monthly fee; product configurators for wholesalers and manufacturers wired to ERP and PIM; Hyvä themes and checkout, as a retrofit or a clean build; and spare parts portals for machine builders. Technologies named are Magento 2, Mage-OS, Hyvä, Alpine.js and Tailwind CSS. Clients named include Bulthuis, Highlite, ICTSpecialist, Tops Filters, EFKA, Limburgia, TUP, Sudac, A4H-Tech and DLS, and the site describes its commercial process as a phased proposal after a 30-minute intro call.
Its performance material is the reason it moved up from sixth in the August edition. The post dated 26 May 2025 describes a Magento 2 Varnish working group it organized, which removed parts of the default VCL that dealt with old vulnerabilities such as Httpoxy and old headers, lowered the default grace period on backend responses from 3 days to 1 day, and shipped the result in its magento2-varnish-extended module, with the stated intention of porting it to Magento 2 and Mage-OS pull requests. The post dated 16 June 2026 on the Haibu store argues that the 90th percentile is the number to watch, states that the p90 user experience score hovered around 70 before the work and reached around 90, where it has stayed, and names a Varnish reconfiguration that improved time to first byte and LCP as the primary change, with a checkout query cleanup and cart interaction work for INP behind it. The measurement tool is RUMvision, for which elgentos publishes a Magento 2 module on GitHub.
GitHub shows 172 public repositories under the elgentos organization, including magento2-varnish-extended at 70 stars, a community Cypress testing suite for Magento 2 at 172 stars, a Playwright testing tool at 48 stars and n98-magerun2 add-ons at 33 stars. The site also offers a free PDF on Hyvä frontend development.
The limits are the ones its own material states. A 22-person team, a client base concentrated in two countries, no hosting product of its own, and a headline result expressed as a monitoring product's p90 score rather than a Core Web Vitals pass or fail. On the six criteria it scores full on Hyvä tier, high on backend depth and open engineering material, moderate on published results, low on hosting layer control and moderate on published terms, which places it fourth, first among the development agencies for cache-layer work.
Evidence used for this profile
- Hyvä Platinum Partner; described as a pioneering Hyvä partner from the outset, specializing in B2B stores and product configurators hyva.io
- 22 people, flat organization; B2B specialist since 2011; most clients in the Netherlands and Belgium; Magento 2 Total Care at a fixed monthly fee; a free PDF on Hyvä frontend development elgentos.com
- Haibu, 16 June 2026: p90 user experience score from around 70 to around 90 and held there; Varnish reconfiguration the main change; measured with RUMvision elgentos.com
- Varnish working group post, 26 May 2025: organized by elgentos; default grace period on backend responses lowered from 3 days to 1 day; changes shipped in magento2-varnish-extended elgentos.com
- GitHub: 172 repositories; magento2-varnish-extended 70 stars; magento2-cypress-testing-suite 172 stars; magento2-playwright 48 stars; magento2-rumvision 10 stars GitHub
Questions people ask about elgentos
- Where is elgentos based and who does it serve?
- Groningen, in the north of the Netherlands, at Hereweg 120-4 per its site. It states that most of its clients sit in the Netherlands and Belgium and that its focus since 2011 has been B2B: wholesalers and manufacturers who need product configurators, spare parts portals and ERP and PIM integration. hyva.io lists it as a Platinum Partner with the same B2B and configurator focus.
- What does elgentos publish about Varnish?
- A May 2025 post on the Magento 2 Varnish working group it organized, which removed obsolete parts of the default VCL, lowered the default grace period on backend responses from 3 days to 1 day, and shipped the changes in its magento2-varnish-extended module, at 70 stars on GitHub. Its Haibu write-up names a Varnish reconfiguration as the main change behind a p90 score rising from around 70 to 90.
- Does elgentos publish field data?
- Yes, in one form. Its June 2026 Haibu post uses RUMvision real user monitoring and reports the p90 user experience score moving from around 70 to around 90 and holding. That is a monitoring product's score rather than a Core Web Vitals pass, and no LCP or INP value is given, so ask for the Chrome UX Report view too. It also publishes a Magento 2 RUMvision module.
- Is elgentos a fit for a store outside the Netherlands and Belgium?
- Its site says most clients sit in those two countries and the team is 22 people, so a merchant elsewhere should ask about capacity and hours before assuming a fit. For a wholesaler with configurators on Hyvä the published material is the closest match on this page regardless of country. For a larger program with a hosting change, scandiweb, MGT-Commerce or Sonassi publish that scope.
elgentos did not contribute to or review this profile. Corrections: editorial policy.