Speed Up MagentoBelow are a few simple ways to speeding up your Magento website. We've put in place many tried and tested PHP and MySQL configurations to improve every website that we host, but there is a few simple things that can be done which should can speed your site up further. CachingMagento caching stores what would be a complicated script or calculation in to a flat file which is updated regularly. Good examples of these are Blocks and Configuration files. Simply login to the Magento Dashboard, and select "System" then "Cache Management".
From here the cache management options are displayed, ensure all cache management is enabled and this will help speed up your Magento website.
After all the above options have been selected, choose "Save Cache Settings". Enable Gzip Compression in .htaccessA very quick and easy method to speed up your Magento website, simply enable Gzip compression in your magento .htaccess file. Gzip compression compresses and stores website files on the fly. When a file is updated or modified, a new version of the compressed file is created in its place. To do this, uncomment this part in the .htacess: (Line 52) |
