Menus are an important part of navigation and the overall user experience of your visitors. Think of menus, as discovery opportunities - a great menu allows visitors to easily find the products that they're looking for and stay on your website for extended periods of time. Out of the box, Magento doesn't offer that many options for making your website menus more user-friendly. That's also true for many of the themes that are available out there. Being able to control the content, usability and design of your menus is very important for conversion optimization. 

This post will highlight some of the more popular and diverse Magento custom menu extensions that have been 'battle-tested' by thousands of Magento users. While some people argue that mega menus are awful for website navigation - we decided to include these products in the list too. First of all, mega menus are pretty much a standard for online stores with tons of categories and products, since there aren't that many other options to display all of categories and products at once. Secondly, today's users are very familiar with mega menus, because top brands, like Columbia, use them. It's not something the users have to accustom themselves to.