Long awaited release of CRE Loaded 6.4.1 is finally out. Now Google Base feature is back in CRE Loaded. Beside bug fixes and Google Base it also includes some new features like Admin log in as customer Several PayPal payment modules Admin Password hardening to satisfy PCI PA-DSS requirements 8.5.10 and 8.5.11 etc Right now [...]
Recently found an interesting tool from Google “Page Speed” for FireFox, similar to yahoo’s YSlow. Page Speed is installed with firebug extension. The tool is very useful for analyzing the performance of any page. It gives suggestions in different categories to improve page load time. The suggestion include compression, browser cache, serving from cookie less [...]
For last few days worked on performance optimization of CRE Loaded site. Now all major performance measuring tools Yahoo YSlow, Google Page Speed and WebPageTest.org are rating the site as A grade site. I have been studying and applying performance guidelines for a while. Recent addition of Site Performance stats in Google Webmaster Tools have [...]
Web servers log a lot of information regarding request served. These logs can be used extract a lot of information about your site. For example which images are requested most, which pages are famous etc etc. As these logs are in text format so its very difficult to get any meaningful information manually. I have [...]
SEO experts are expecting Google to give more importance to page load times in search ranking. This simply means faster site will have more weight in search results. Google is already measuring average page load time, through its toolbar. Google started measuring page load time in early August 09 (at least for sites I monitor). [...]
Google have added its site performance tool under Webmaster Tools. The tool is available under “Labs” menu, so it means its still in testing mode. See the image below The tool includes a graph of average page loads time. The stats shown are collected from visitors who use Google tool bar with PageRank option enabled. [...]
While working on some site I came across a bug in Special product page. If we have turned manufacturer name on in product listing, the link generated on the name is missing the manufacturer id value. The invalid link created looks like this http://demos.creloaded.com/creloaded_ce/index.php?manufacturers_id= on page https://demos.creloaded.com/creloaded_ce/specials.php. I found this in cre loaded Pro 6.4.0, [...]
Cache have become an important tool for increasing performance of a website. In this post we will install a famous osCommerce contribution to our CRE Loaded PCI 6.4 for cache. The contribution is called osC Advanced Cache Class. The contribution will enable us to cache just about every thing like large arrays, data, html, even [...]
Today fixed a bug in product listing of cre loaded 6.4.0 pro. Due this bug manufacturer link on certain pages was missing manufacturer id. The bug existed on Special products, New Products and Featured products page. To fix the issue open file specials.php and find line case ‘PRODUCT_LIST_MANUFACTURER’:. In line next to it add p.manufacturers_id, [...]
CRE Loaded provides a basic search where a product can be searched by product name, model and manufacturer. If selected search is also performed in product description. This search uses SQL “LIKE” syntax to search in text fields. For example is keyword “test” is search the query will be select distinct p.products_image … final_price from [...]