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Instant Magento Performance Optimization How-to

By : Nayrolles Mathieu (USD), Mathieu Nayrolles
Book Image

Instant Magento Performance Optimization How-to

By: Nayrolles Mathieu (USD), Mathieu Nayrolles

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.
Table of Contents (7 chapters)

Checking the configuration (Must know)


The best way to give up on Magento is to let your configuration mislead you.

How to do it...

Check if your configuration scope is well parameterized.

Go to System | Configuration.

In the top-right corner, check if the current scope corresponds to the attending scope. If not, select the right one and save your configuration in the top-right corner.

How it works...

Because Magento offers the possibility to administrators to get as many configurations as a Magento store, we have to be careful about the current one.