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Magento 2 - Build World-Class online stores

By : Fernando J Miguel, Ray Bogman, Vladimir Kerkhoff, Bret Williams, Jonathan Bownds
Book Image

Magento 2 - Build World-Class online stores

By: Fernando J Miguel, Ray Bogman, Vladimir Kerkhoff, Bret Williams, Jonathan Bownds

Overview of this book

Magento is the leading e-commerce software trusted by world`s leading organizations. Used by thousands of merchants for their transactions worth billions, it provides the flexibility to customize the content and functionality of your website. Our Magento Course will help you gain knowledge and skills that are required to design & develop world class online stores. Magento 2 Development Essentials - This book begins by setting up Magento 2 before gradually moving onto setting the basic options of the Sell System. You will learn Search Engine Optimization aspects, create design and customize theme layout, and adjust the Magento System to achieve great performance. Magento 2 Cookbook – This book is divided into several recipes, which show you which steps to take to complete a specific action. It will cover configuring your categories and products, performance tuning, creating a theme, developing a module etc. At the end of this book, you will gain the knowledge to start building a success website. Mastering Magento 2 - This is a comprehensive guide to using the all new features and interface of Magento 2 to build, extend, and design online stores. This book is your roadmap to managing your Magento store which teaches advanced and successful techniques. Focusing on Magento's Community version, this book offers you advanced guidance on managing, optimizing, and extending your store while taking advantage of the new features of Magento 2. This Learning Path combines some of the best that Packt has to offer in one complete, curated package. It includes content from the following Packt products • Magento 2 Development Essentials by Fernando J. Miguel • Magento 2 Cookbook by Ray Bogman and Vladimir Kerkhoff • Mastering Magento 2 by Bret Williams and Jonathan Bownds
Table of Contents (6 chapters)

Chapter 8. Optimizing Magento

As you've no doubt realized by now, Magento 2 is a very powerful e-commerce platform. From its robust product management suite to its virtually unlimited extendability, Magento packs a lot into one open source platform.

From our work within its files, we have learned that Magento combines a great number of separate files and data tables to present any page to online visitors. By its very nature, the MVC architecture of Magento puts a good deal of overhead on any web server. In the beginning, the complexity of Magento discouraged some developers because of the demands the platform placed on hosting servers.

However, over time Magento's developers have worked hard to improve overall performance, and Magento 2 represents a milestone in that regard. Magento 2 is indeed faster than before, even when taking faster servers into account.

That said, for Magento to perform at the highest levels of performance, there are areas with which you should become...