Magento Performance

11 Ways to Speed Up Your Magento Website Today!
11 Ways to Speed Up Your Magento Website Today!
Zyhdi

As your Magento website catalog grows and you add more extensions and other third party integrations, the performance and speed of the website diminishes. We’ve seen this time and again with our clients. A good example is installed extensions that are not used and left enabled in the Magento admin to run in the background. […]

Magento Caching – Troubleshooting and Best Practices
Magento Caching – Troubleshooting and Best Practices
Gary Mort

In Magento, full page caching improves load speed response time on your website. A cached page will be stored after one visit or pre-generated and stored. A cached page takes much less time to open in a browser. Fast load speed is crucial to your customers’ shopping experience, and customers will commonly abandon stores that […]

Magento Coding Standards and Code Review in The Real World
Magento Coding Standards and Code Review in The Real World
Gary Mort

“Code review is systematic examination … of computer source code. It is intended to find mistakes overlooked in the initial development phase, improving the overall quality of software.” Code review, in summary, is a collaborative process between the developer who writes the code and the developers who review the code to ensure that new code […]

How to handle Magento maintenance on logs, caches, and indexes.
How to handle Magento maintenance on logs, caches, and indexes.
Gary Mort

There is a lot of confusion of how to run regular maintenance on logs, caches, and indexes in Magento. Most of it stems from applying maxims from the past to today.  In the past, server storage space was at a premium – and offsite storage required tape backups to handle the quantity of data.  Which […]

7 Ways to Improve Magento Page Load Speed
7 Ways to Improve Magento Page Load Speed
Alyssa Schaad

A 1 second delay in page response can result in a 7% reduction in conversions. The speed of your business website matters. Fast-loading websites perform better on every front: higher search ranking, excellent user experience, and better user engagement. Most importantly, quick-loading websites deliver higher conversions and higher revenue. What is an acceptable page load time? […]

Magento Optimization Quick Tips for Faster Load Speed
Magento Optimization Quick Tips for Faster Load Speed
Joel Holtzman

One of the most difficult things to do with a Magento site is to make it load faster. Due to the complex nature of how the Magento system works, even if you have a low graphics home page theme you will find that it will take 3-4 seconds for a standard category page to load. […]