How to Speed Up Magento eCommerce
Category: Design | Posted date: 2020-04-29 05:44:17 | Updated date: 2020-04-29 05:48:55 | Posted by: Jesza
With the proliferation of mobile devices, Google has started using speed and page load of a website to determine search engine ranking as a more important factor than ever before. Google has gone so far as to create multiple testing sites to help you improve the speed of your website, and in doing so - as web developers - we must respond by taking note of what Google is investing time and resources in
After almost ten years of deep delving into the beast that's Magento, I even have learned a thing or two a few thing or two. one of the items that I even have seen time and time again is that Magento can take a top notch web server and make your website crawl. the extreme working behind the scenes of Magento is one of the huge drawbacks of using the beast, but there are ways to form the best of the situation. some of the newest updates to Magento have given us some tools to form the beast appear as fast as the other website out there. Following is an all encompassing tutorial to form your Magento installation run as quickly as possible.
Magento Settings
Enable Flat Category & Products - Go to system > config > catalog and enable flat category and product for your website
Merge CSS & JS Files - Go to system > config > advanced > developer and enable merging for css and js for your website
Enable Compilation - Go to system > tools > compilation and enable compilation for your website
Enable Caching - Go to system > cache management and enable all caching for your website
Clean up Magento Logs - Go to system > config > advanced > system > log cleaning and ensure cleaning of logs for your website
Disable Unused Modules - Go to system > config > advanced > advanced and disable any unused modules for your website
Images
Compress Images - Use photoshop and or tinypng to compress your images to load quicker and increase page load times.
Template Images - All images used in your template should be compressed to the point that they are below 10kb.
Image Sprites - Use image sprites to minimize image load times.
Image Extensions - Use something like cloudinary or magento image optimization to make your images load quicker.
Magento Extensions
Full Page Cache Extension - http://www.extendware.com/magento-full-page-cache.html.
Yireo Disablelog Addon
Fooman Speedster
GTSpeed
Server Configuration
Select your web host carefully - Check speed of other sites on the server and compare to other web hosts - the web host you select can make a huge difference in the speed of your website.
Optimize MYSQL - Enable query caching.
Edit HTACCESS - Make use of gzip, expires, mod deflate, and output compression.
Clean MYSQL
Remove errors
Uninstall unused extensions
Enable keepalives
Reduce web server logging
Install php opcode - like apc or eaccelerator
How to speed up Magento
- Enable caching
Under System > Cache Management select to enable all cache options available to you.
- Enable Compilations
Under System > Tools > Compilation select to enable compilation for your Magento store
- Enable flatness
Under System > Config > Catalog select to enable both flat category and flat products.
- Merge CSS & JS files
Under System > Config > Advanced > Developer enable the merging of bot js and css files.
