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:
- Optimizing your MySQL server
- Enable Flat Products and Categories
- Fine Tuning PHP Configurations
- Admin area on separate server
- Search Type Selection
- Adding more MySQL Servers
- 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.
You should try Lightspeed module. You can see a demo of it at lightspeed-demo.delorumcommerce.com. This site runs on a server with only 1gb of ram 10gb of hard drive and is on a virtual server. With Lightspeed installed we see page load times from .5 to 1 second.
Lightspeed at store.delorumcommerce.com
Let’s also try caching extension MTurbo http://www.artio.net/magento-extensions/m-turbo-accelerator
It should speed up Magento website just via caching whole pages