Magento performance

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 have come along way on from it initial releases.

It provides a lot of features and guidelines to make a Magento site faster like multilevel cache, indexing etc etc. Due to lack of knowledge about these features, many small and medium vendors hesitate migrating to it.

I thought its a good idea to write about different optimization techniques which make Magento faster.
Here are links for posts of this series:

  1. Optimizing your MySQL server
  2. Enable Flat Products and Categories
  3. Fine Tuning PHP Configurations
  4. Admin area on separate server
  5. Search Type Selection
  6. Adding more MySQL Servers
  7. Speed up admin area with Manual Index Mode

Stay tuned for more in this series to make your faster. Remember faster sites create happier customers.