This is the first of the series “Magento Performance”. In this post focus will be on tuning up MySQL server to make it optimal for Magento site. MySQL is most potential area for optimization. Optimizing its configuration can give good boost in performance. There are several configurations which should be considered. Memory Magento uses InnoDB [...]
MySQL 5.5 beta is released. This version contains a lot of enhancements focusing on performance, reliability and scalability. MySQL team have been focusing on InnodDB engine for a long time, so starting from 5.5 InnoDB will be the default storage engine. This marks the end of MyISAM being the default engine. This version will include [...]
Magento performance is really a difficult topic to write about. Performance has been in discussion and under a lot of criticism since the start. In my opinion its performance has been under heavy criticism unjustifiably, because there are a lot of rich features which come at some cost. Magento is continuously improving on performance, and [...]
Most WordPress themes use a number of images, js and other static contents. By default these static content are not cached so they are downloaded again on each request. This makes web page response very slow. This can be improved by using browser cache. To enable browser cache you need do as below 1 – [...]
I have used CuteFTP for quite a long time for my FTP needs. I really liked the Pro version of it. Main reason of it was its user friendly interface and features like Automatic switch to local and remote folder Sync directory browsing: means if we change local folder remote is also changed Easy manageable [...]
Magento’s Enterprise Edition 1.8 is released. One interesting feature it introduces is “Solr” for full text searching. Solr is open source, very fast full text search engine from Apache project. More Solr features include hit highlighting, clustering, db integration, faceted search, and rich document (e.g., Word, PDF) handling. Solr is very similar to SPHINX. You [...]
Based on Google Analytics (GA) visitor stats blow are the most visited pages on this blog during March 2010. /topic/web-performance-optimization/ /serving-images-from-cookie-less-domain/ Home page The month also marked highest traffic on this blog.
Have anyone ever got 4294967293 private message on a single forum? I am certain that no one have got this much messages. Recently my account link in Magento forum showed me that I have 4294967293 messages in my inbox (see the image). Actually there were no messages at all. This is probably due to invalid [...]
There have been an argument among SEOs on URL structure with deep directory structure and direct structure. Typical example of with and without directories will be URLs are http://exaaample.wordpress.com/2010/03/09/post-name-which-is-long/ And http://exaaample.wordpress.com/post-name-which-is-long/ Many SEO experts consider URL with directories good for categorization etc. Many others consider these problematic for PageRank assuming deep URLs get less of [...]
Google recently confirmed that site speed will be used in search ranking. Google have been monitoring site speed through Google Toolbar for past many months. If you are interested to see site speed for your site you can find in Google Webmaster Tool. You can find more details on following links http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2010/04/using-site-speed-in-web-search-ranking.html http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/site-speed/