Magento Performance

Magento performance: Optimization of Magento configurable products

Magento performance: Optimization of Magento configurable products

If you use configurable products in your Magento store and your super attribute have a lot of options (thousands of options), you can experience the following performance issues:

  • Loading time of a configurable product page is more than other pages (especially when Magento cache is disabled)
  • When you add a configurable product to store cart, cart page become slow
  • When configurable product is added to store cart, all store pages become slow

In this article I will show how to debug such issues and how to fix the speed issue I described above.

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Magento performance: Magento search optimization

Magento search optimization

Search is very important for customer experience, that is why it is highly recommended to keep it quick and optimized.

In this article we gathered recommendations that will help to optimize search in your Magento store without core files modifications.

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Magento performance: Optimize MySQL settings for your Magento database using Tuning Primer shell script

The Tuning Primer is a shell script that allows you to review the MySQL settings and make adjustments to increase Magento database performance and stability. The script will analyze MySQL statistics and provide you with recommendations on how to fine-tune your MySQL server.

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Magento performance: Configuring APC cache for Magento

Magento speed

APC (Alternative PHP cache) is a free opcode cache for PHP, which optimize PHP intermediate code. APC engine cache the compiled bytecode of PHP scripts to avoid the overhead of parsing and compiling source code on each request.

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Magento performance: How to improve Magento speed using Apache/Gzip files compression

Apache files compression is the fastest way to improve your Magento website speed and performance.

It is recommended to check compression status before and after compression activation. You can easily check compression and data savings level using http://www.whatsmyip.org/http-compression-test/ online service.

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