8 Feb
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 Quick and Fast Tips: Enable Caching: Caching is enabled by default, so unless and until it is necessary don’t turn it off; Use PHP Accelerator such as APC; Enable Compiler; Size of Quarry Cache should be 32 or 64 MB; Logging time is access then disable it; 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 minimum time. Memory-based File System: if you are using Memory-based file system such as tmpfs, this will move your site faster; Flat catalog products and flat catalog categories.
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 website 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 up to 25 Tips, which includes some quick and fast tips and some general tips. With the use of these you can boost-up your Magento website’s speed.
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