25 Tips To Boost-Up Your Magento Application
Magento has great advanced features, also had one drawback of running slow. Speed is substitute of Success in E-commerce. Therefore, with the use of certain Tips and Cautions you can Speed-up your website and you can reach top-most position in online business. There are certain Quick Tips to boost your website.
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.
Certain General Tips: Get dedicated server for your Magento at all time; redirect should be minimize; Make your output W3C complaint, because of errors the browser will be slower down; Turn off or at least cut down web server logging, because of it Disk writes will also reduces; Instead of your OS’s Package manager Compile MySQL from source; Swap Apache for NginX or Lite-speed, and if this option is not available then go for Zen Server; Only install necessary Apache modules; DNS look-up take extra time, hence,don’t use many different external sources for images or i frames, etc.
Upgrade latest version of cart, because of it not only you will get advanced features, fixing of BUG , but with every update it performs well; Use Apache mod-express and make it sure to set how long files should be cached; For parallel transfer of static content use Content Delivery Network (CDN); Use z-lib, Compress output for output_compression; Enable G-zip Compression in ht-access; Go to MySQL Admin, then select all the tables and repair and then optimize them; Host your website from there,Where you have big number of customers; Don’t host that files on your server which are not in use; Use multiple web nodes-front-end server, for handling browsing and checkouts.
These are 25 useful Tips, which includes certain quick tips and general tips that can enable you to boost-up your eCommerce cart’s speed.
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