Top 10 Magento Speed Optimization Tips

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Magento Speed Optimization
(Through 10 effective ways)

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Magento - A Brief Overview

• Magento is an ecommerce platform that powers more
  than 24 of the worlds ecommerce stores.
• Is is based on open source technology gives
  abundant flexibility and functionalities for
  creating a full-fledged shopping cart system.
• As a SaaS ecommerce platform, Magento is highly
  scalable is relied upon by businesses of all
  sizes and scale of operations.
• Magento supports multiple store formats from a
  single backend system.

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Market Share

• 25 of the worlds ecommerce websites/applications
  are developed with Magento.
• Key findings of the study
• Magento WooCommerce together take up 49 of the
  entire eCommerce market
• Magento reins as the first choice (with 25
  share) for ecommerce websites followed by
  WooCommerce (with 24).

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Why Magento Scores High as an eCommerce
Platform?

• Easily customizable

• Magento aids in building ecommerce websites of
  any size shape with peculiar requirements. It
  works perfectly for a online hardware retailer as
  if works for an online fashion retailer.

• Magento extensive API facilitates integration for
  any 3rd party app for payment gateways, logistics
  or web analytics.

• 3rd party app integration

Magento extensive API facilitates integration for
any 3rd party app for payment gateways, logistics
or web analytics.
Magento based ecommerce stores have in-built
features that generate SEO friendly URLs,
descriptions, meta tags, site maps, category
structures, etc.

• Magento based ecommerce stores have in-built
  features that generate SEO friendly URLs,
  descriptions, meta tags, site maps, category
  structures, etc.

• SEO friendly

Whilst most ecommerce platforms allow only one
store per system Magento enables multiple stores
from a single backend system.

• Whilst most ecommerce platforms allow only one
  store per system Magento enables multiple stores
  from a single backend system.

• One backend system for multiple stores

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2. Why Magento Scores High as an eCommerce
Platform?

• Unparalleled UX

• Magento renders a superior user experience with
  an interactive shopping experience for customers.

• Multi Channel selling

• Magento offers a comprehensive digital trading
  platform for selling inventory across online
  offline channels.

• User friendly

• Magento is simple, easy to use set up, can be
  updated automatically and can be used by any
  naive Internet user.

• Magento offers multiple logistic and supplier
  management that an online store will require in
  routine operations.

• Efficient logistic management

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Grapevine About Magento
Magento is an excellent choice for ecommerce
development. However, websites tend to get slow
develop lags due to some default settings.
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Factors That Slow Down Magento Websites

• Magento is a resource intensive eCommerce
  platform that consumes too much of resource from
  a single server.
• Magento is based on EAV model which requires it
  to go through a series of tables queries before
  spotting the information.
• Too many http requests are created for images and
  static content which slows down the website
  loading time.
• By default, most loading speed enhancement
  settings are turned off which bogs down the
  loading speed.

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Magento Website Speed Optimization

• Loading speed of Magento based websites can be
  optimized from Two aspects
• Application Side
• Server Side

That will cut short loading speed under 3 seconds
flat.
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Magento Speed Optimization Techniques

1. New Releases have big fixes

2. Enable Flat Catalog

• Bugs can slow down the loading time and
  performance of any website. Latest version of
  Magento will be free of bugs and will be
  optimized for best performance.

• Flat catalog quickens the search for a query in
  the tables of the ecommerce store.
• How to do it
• Follow the path Magento Admin -gt System -gt
  Configuration -gt Catalog (left panel) -gt Frontend
  
• Expand the Frontend section and enabled Yes for
  both Flat catalog category and Product.
• Save config refresh the page cache for changes
  to take place.

3. Reduce 3rd party extensions

• Using as less as 3rd party extensions will help
  reduce the extra processing power and database
  queries which usually slow down a Magento
  website.

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4. Enable Cache Configuration

• Turning on cache management ensures that the
  website cache is cleared on a routine basis
  keeping the website loading speed at a bare
  minimum.
• How to do it
• File System -gt APC -gt Memcached -gt Redis Cache -gt
  Varnish cache
• Enable all the items in the cache management
  directory Enable them for best results
• Save config refresh the Page Cache for the
  changes to take place.

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Streamlining Static Content Size Distribution
7. Enable magento compiler
6. Content distribution networks
5. Compress image sizes

• CDNs distribute static content to the user based
  based on geographical location. The location
  targeted content distribution helps cut down the
  time which otherwise will be required for
  transmitting data across a distance.

• Images occupy a major portion of a websites
  loading speed. Compressing image sizes using
  applications like Adobe Photoshop, Picasa, etc.
  will help in reducing the loading time.

• Enabling Magento compiler helps to compile all
  installation files under a single path. Enabling
  Magento compiling itself will cut down page
  loading speed from present rates to one half or
  one fourth.
  
  
  
  
  
  To
  enable Magento Compiler Admin Panel -gt System
  -gt Tools -gt Compilation

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8. Merge JavaScript CSS files
Merging JS and CSS files helps reduce the number
of HTTP requests raised each time the user visits
the website. Reduced HTTP requests Faster
loading time
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9. MySQL Configuration

• Activate MySQL Database cache using the
  query_cache_size parameter.
• Increase realpath_cache_size to maximum to reduce
  the number of disk lookups which in turn will
  accelerate page loading speed.

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10. Deploy Varnish Nginx Caching

• For websites that are heavy with static and
  dynamic content, enabling varnish caching is an
  excellent way to reduce the page loading speed.
• Varnish is a reverse proxy where a cache version
  of the website is created when the users logs
  into the website for the first time.
• The cache version is accessed when the user logs
  in the second time for delivering content thus
  quickening the page loading speed.

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Reduce Your Website Loading Speed Under 3 seconds
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