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What are the best steps to improve magento performance?

Answer 1

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here is a link i found for improving the performance of magento

http://www.blastedthing.com/magento/site-speed/mag-improve-the-speed-of-your-magento-site/

one thing to note from that site is the

php_value memory_limit 128M

in the php.ini file, they say this will make a huge improvement on performance.

John Boker 2009-09-10 03:24:12

thanks! i have done that. does setting the memory_limit higher make any improvements?

Rick J 2009-09-10 06:11:53

if the app doesnt have enough memory right now to do what it needs to do then setting the memory_limit higher will give you a good performance boost.

John Boker 2009-09-10 14:04:51

Answer 2

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Our biggest speed increase came from placing ./magento/var/cache onto a tmpfs filesystem.

We also moved the contents of the .htaccess files into the Apache configuration. That eliminated checking for the file each page hit.

We enabled gzip compression on the server too. It seemed to help a bit.

You may also want to check out your MySQL query cache config.

There are a few guides to tuning your Magento install online. I liked this one: http://www.neurosoftware.ro/programming-blog/blogposter/web-resources/magento-performance-hosting/

xer0x 2009-10-04 23:29:00

Answer 3

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I do a few things that on their own won't make much difference, but combined can make a substantial difference.

1) gzip compression 2) minify HTML, CSS, JSS (remove all unneccessary white space) 3) Optimise your images 4) Disable any unused modules 5) Combine external CSS/JS into one file 6) Cache files that can be cached

The .htaccess trick mentioned above sounds quite good. I've never tried it but will be trying at work on Monday!

Fishpig 2009-10-25 13:17:06

The .htaccess trick worked for me, but not a huge improvement as i had hoped :(We make heavy use of caching on the site so im going to try moving /var to memory to see if that helps.

Rick J 2009-10-26 06:06:51

Answer 4

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My biggest performance increase came from installing Xcache to cache the code at php level, turning on mysql query caching will help too as alot of similar queries are requested from the mysql server in the same page request

Question Mark 2009-11-27 10:15:53

Answer 5

+1 A:

Im find good performance compare maybe this hep you http://oggettoweb.com/blog/magento-performance-enterprise-community/

werew 2010-09-24 12:07:57

Answer 6

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Try to use caching extension MTurbo http://www.artio.net/magento-extensions/m-turbo-accelerator

Lukas 2010-10-06 12:44:21

Answer 7

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More tips about performance optimization for Magento: 101 ways to speed up your Magento e-commerce website

Guido Jansen 2010-10-08 14:15:17

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