Is your Magento store not as fast as you would like it to be?
Below you will find our 10 tips and tricks to speed up your site Magento.
Note: Some of the steps below require administrator access to the server.
- Make sure you are running the latest version of Magento. New versions often include performance improvements and other patches that affect performance.
- Activate the module Flat catalog of products and categories in the Magento Admin Panel. We've seen pretty significant improvements by turning this feature on, especially in large catalogs. System -> Settings -> Catalog
- Activate the caching to reduce the number of database operations required for each page request. System->Cache Management
- Maintain the number of minimum extensions. Many extensions introduce additional processing and database queries that have a negative impact on overall performance.
- compress files image with a photo editor such as Adobe Photoshop to reduce the file size.
- Install a JS/CSS minifier like Minify Javascript/CSS which is made by a leading Javascript extension provider. Magento. Minify JS/CSS It will combine, compress and cache Javascript and CSS files. Plus, it will even add expiration tags to files to ensure faster browser loading.
- Experiment with it Magento compiler. System -> Tools -> Compilation
- Install a PHP opcode cache such as APC or eAccelerator.
- Optimize the MySQL server (enable Query Cache and adjust my.cnf parameters).
- Replace the Apache web server with the LiteSpeed Enterprise web server. LiteSpeed offers a 50% performance boost for PHP application and is up to 6x faster than Apache serving static content.
Disclaimer: The suggestions above are general guidelines and results may vary between different Magento installations.
