Tuesday, January 17, 2012

25 Essential Tips To Increase Speed Of Your Magento Software

By Ankur Maheshwari


Magento cart having good features, but it also having one week point of slow speed. Hence, using of certain Tips and Cautions you can Speed-up your eCommerce cart. There are some Fast and Quick Tips that can increase speed of your eCommerce cart.

8 Fast Tips: Modify Memory cache, In Magento 1.4 Memory cache is available by default, so when it is not so needful don't turn it off; Use PHP Accelerator; Enable Compiler; Size of Quarry Cache-32 or 64 MB; If logging time is access then disable it; Memory-based File System: if you are using Memory-based file system such as tmpfs, this will move your website quick; Flat catalog products and flat catalog categories. Enable all Keep A lives in Apache: Keep-A-lives are tricks where multiple HTTP requests can be funneled through a single TCP connections. So if you enable it then automatically your site will load in less time.

17 General Tips: Always get dedicated server for your website; Minimize redirect; Make your output W3C complaint, because errors slow down the browser; Turn off or at-least reduce web server logging, because it reduces disk writes; Compile MySQL from source instead of your OS's Package manager; Swap Apache for NginX or Lite speed, if this option is not available then go for Zen Server; Only install necessary Apache modules; Every DNS look-up take extra time, so do not use many different external sources for images, i-frames, etc.

Always upgrade to the latest version of Magento, because not only you will get advanced features, BUG fixing, but with every update it performs best; Use Apache mod_express and be sure to set how long files should be cached; For parallel transfer of static content use Content Delivery Network (CDN);Use z-lib.output_compression for Compress output; Enable G zip Compression in ht-access; Go to MySQL Admin, then select all the tables and repair and then optimize them; Where you have big range of customers, Host your website from there; Don't host that files on your server which you do not use; Use multiple web nodes i.e front-end server, for handling browsing and checkouts.

These are 25 useful Tips, which includes certain quick tips and general tips that can enable you to boost-up your eCommerce cart's speed.




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