How to Boost Up Your Magento Website Speed and Improve Performance?
Magento is one of the most popular ecommerce platforms that are used by business owners to grow their online business. If the platform is not setup correctly, then it will run slow as it is a heavy ecommerce CMS system. I have personally seen that even the most experienced web developers miss the settings and are at times unable to enhance the speed and performance of Magento website. Customer satisfaction and proper loading speed are the two prime factors that affect your services and so it is important to reduce the loading time and the bounce rates. So here, I will discuss with you some effective means to improve Magento’s performance, but also make sure to download the free study guide from Magento website.
Magento Caching: It is important to enable caching, as this will optimize the performance of the site. When all the settings are done and the site is also ready, go to System Cache Management. Set the Action dropdown to Enable and then submit. Doing this will help to increase the performance and those who are used to server administration can even do more. There are caching extensions that can also be incorporated to speed up the site.
Remove unused codes: Magento developers, while writing codes should always take care to avoid writing repeated codes as it reduces the loading speed of a website. Remove any unused codes from the home page and for this you can go to the CMS menu, look for the page menu, go the home page and remove any unused codes.
Enable output compression: This can only be done if the mod_deflate apache module is installed in your server. This will help to compress text, Javascript and CSS before it is sent to the browser. The output is smaller download size of the components that helps the pages to load faster in the browsers.
Enable Expires Headers: These are used by the browsers to determine for how long a component can be cached. They are mostly used with images, but to speed up the site, Magento development companies should use them on all the components that include scripts, Flash files and stylesheets.
Use a content delivery network: This has gained a lot of popularity and it reduces the problem of serving static files to the audience of the site. Content delivery network has many advantages like cost effectiveness, improvement in the performance of the site, especially to the visitors who come from all around the world.
Thus, in a nutshell, the speed of your Magento website can reach the magic mark if you closely follow certain strategies like reducing the amount of the downloaded data, the overall time to receiving data and etc.
Thanks for sharing this post, Its very helpful for Magento owners.
Extremely informative, looking forward to returning.|
That was an awsome post and really some nice helpful tips for me as a person who has been assigned the task of some magento sites. Thanks for the info.