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Instant Magento Performance Optimization How-to

Instant Magento Performance Optimization How-to

By : Nayrolles Mathieu (USD), Mathieu Nayrolles
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Instant Magento Performance Optimization How-to

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By: Nayrolles Mathieu (USD), Mathieu Nayrolles
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Overview of this book

The optimization of an attractive commercial website is a non-trivial task that demands time and knowledge. Optimization is a critical point for all growing businesses because a misconfiguration could make you lose money, a lot of money. If your server is overloaded, a browser that wants to turn into a buyer will not be able to, and you will lose customers. "Instant Magento Performance Optimization How-To" is a practical, hands-on guide that provides you with a number of clear, step-by-step exercises to help you reach a high performance level for your Magento stores and keep your customers satisfied.This book looks at tweaks and tips used to boost your Magento Performance, and breaks down the confusion that surrounds the subject.You will learn how to compress your pages, styles, and scripts by almost 80%. We will also take a look at controversial optimization settings such as Magento core compilation or enabling all caching systems. You will discover new applications that improve performance. If you wish your e-businesses to grow and want to keep your customers satisfied, you definitely need this book.
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Merging CSS files (Must know)
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Merging JavaScript (Must know)
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Logging files (Must know)
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Compiling (Must know)
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Managing the index (Must know)
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Removing PayPal's logo (Must know)
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Using the Magento caching system (Must know)
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Enhancing the expiration date (Should know)
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Keeping your connections alive (Should know)
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Storing your sessions in the database (Should know)
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Configuring MySQL (Should know)
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Using a memory-based filesystem for caching (Become an expert)
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Compressing your code – gzip (Become an expert)
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Installing a PHP accelerator (Become an expert)
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Clustering (Become an expert)
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Balancing load (Become an expert)
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Replicating the database (Become an expert)
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Checking the configuration (Must know)
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Clearing caches (Must know)
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Logging (Must know)
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Using template hints (Must know)
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Using the Profiler (Should know)
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Using a debugger (Should know)

Using the Magento caching system (Must know)

A cache is a system that stores data so that future requests for that data can be served faster. Having cache is definitely a good thing, but the caching system of Magento is not super effective.

How to do it...

Let's begin with cache enabling, even if most users are well aware of this one. Go to your backend console and then go to System | Cache Management.

By default, all caches are enabled; but some have a negative impact. You have to disable caches for the following items:

  • Collections Data

  • EAV types and attributes

  • Web Services Configuration

The following table shows the improvement made due to the previous settings, that is, by disabling the selected caches:

Type

Requests

Load time

Size

All caches enabled

35

1.12 seconds

713.4 KB

Selected cache enabled

1

903 milliseconds

713.4 KB

Another little win, 200 milliseconds, just enough to fulfill the promise made in the previous recipes.

How it works...

A cache is a system that stores data so that future requests for that data can be served faster. A web cache stores copies of documents passing through it, and subsequent requests may be satisfied from the cache if a set of conditions exists.

There are many hypotheses out there to explain this weird optimization. The main one is that the Magento core has to parse the cache and check in MySQL to compare updated data, and this causes a huge delay. In fact, by allowing Magento to do these kinds of operations, we don't use the full resources of our systems.

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