Magento Speed

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In this article we gathered the most important performance tips, which will help you to improve Magento 2 speed on your local machine. After applying of these performance tips, Magento 2 will load much faster. You will be able to work in normal way, without long page reloading.

In short, this is a list of speed improvements requited for normal development work with Magento 2.

Nginx web server is an amazing solution for high loaded web resources.

In this article we will configure production server for a single domain, working on Nginx only with fast PHP process manager (PHP-FPM) and MySQL. Operating system is Linux CentOS 6.

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.

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.

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.

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.