How to Speed up your Magento Store

Magento raises the bar when it comes to high performance ecommerce platforms. It has quickly made a good following and is now a globally accepted platform for eCommerce owners. Even though it is highly popular, Magento tends to be quite heavy a CMS especially in its default settings. Only when right settings and configuration are applied, does the platform see a bump in speed. This can be quiet a task if you are a newbie developer.

There are many ways that can help increase the speed of Magento. These methods can also be applied on some other CMS systems which use PHP. So, let’s take a look at some easy to apply ways to help increase the speed of your Magento ecommerce store. Read More - http://clapcreative.com/how-to-speed...magento-store/

A research shows that a user spends 70-80% of the online shopping time on the store front. Only around 20-30% time is spent in the checkout process. So optimizing the front end would make the website performance better. JavaScript and CSS files need to be aggregated and compressed. You can use modules that would help you to compress the files and reduce its size. Several tools are available to compress the themes and images on the website. Too much of compression can damage the picture quality, so make sure you set a limit prior to start compressing the images.

Read this article that provide some of our practical solutions to optimize Magento site’s loading time relying on our own experience and ability in exploiting Magento for over 7 years : http://www.magesolution.com/blog/optimize-magento-site/

Below are the steps to increase the Magento page-load speed significantly.
1) Reduce the size of file transfer between browser & web server
2) Optimize Images by resizing them
3) Less the Number of HTTP Requests
4) Optimize Performance Through Magento Panel

You've shared great insights into Magento performance optimization. I would also add 1 more important point - cache

Here is some research:
- Magento Full Page Cache vs Varnish Cache
- Magento cache explained: a guide for store owners

And an extension: Full Page Cache

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Enable Output Compression
Enable Expires Headers
Disable ETags
Enable Flat Catalog
stop your webserver
Dont change any default value

Store speed is extremely critical for customer experience and for SEO. There are several different strategies to improving store speed including improving generation time and improving download time. There are 10 simple steps every store owner should implement to speed up their store: 10 steps to make magento faster

The most important items is to use a Page Cache, Minify Javascript, and finally Image Optimization.

There are several free things also (covered in the blog) such as enabling flat catalog tables. This can be done in System -> Configuration -> Catalog -> Frontend

A Magento store can be optimize up to a level where the loading speed is less than 2 second. Doing it takes lot more than just compressing JS files and optimizing images. You will need a professional services to get this done by following the best practices. Here is one company that I can suggest to optimize your Magento store with minimum cost.
http://www.fmeextensions.com/magento...imization.html

For every ecommerce sites starting out having fast page load speeds can make all the difference when it comes to closing a sale. You need to enforce speed optimization techniques to prevent abandonment rates. Magento gives you the option of optimizing your site's loading speed.

When it comes to Magento Speed optimization you have to check the following important things - Integrating Full Page Cache, Tackling HTTP requests, Using Sprite Image, Merge JS and CSS files.

You can improve your site load time by installing Magento Full Page Cache extension from Magegiant. It has many outstanding features as the following:

- Better full page cache for Magento.
- Fully custom cache by actions, helpers
- Provide Block caching management
- Custom block caching capability
- Automatically Intelligence learning Blocks.
- .htaccess configuration: Etags, Compression, Expire headers
- Get Full Page Cache (a different version from the EE one), even on CE version
- CDN fully support
- Configuration clean catalog cache on each order.

Here are comparison tables with Lesti Full page cache and Magento default about the render time.

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As you see, the speed of your site is improved significantly.

SPEED UP THE WEBSITE AND SATISFY EVEN PRISSY CUSTOMERS

Optimizing your Magento site speed with a number of ways.

Check these out:
http://bsscommerce.com/blog/magento-...peed-gtmetrix/
http://bsscommerce.com/blog/magento-...o-site-part-1/
http://bsscommerce.com/blog/inforgra...peed-problems/

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