Magento Performance

In my previous article I wrote about performance issues when you have many attribute options for configurable attribute. Here I will provide you with several tips on how to increase performance if you have configurable products with many associated products (100 associated products and more).

If you use configurable products in your Magento store and your super attribute have a lot of options (thousands of options), you can experience the following performance issues:

• Loading time of a configurable product page is more than other pages (especially when Magento cache is disabled)
• When you add a configurable product to store cart, cart page become slow
• When configurable product is added to store cart, all store pages become slow

In this article I will show how to debug such issues and how to fix the speed issue I described above.

Search is very important for customer experience, that is why it is highly recommended to keep it quick and optimized.
In this article we gathered recommendations that will help to optimize search in your Magento store without core files modifications.

The Tuning Primer is a shell script that allows you to review the MySQL settings and make adjustments to increase Magento database performance and stability. The script will analyze MySQL statistics and provide you with recommendations on how to fine-tune your MySQL server.

APC (Alternative PHP cache) is a free opcode cache for PHP, which optimize PHP intermediate code. APC engine cache the compiled bytecode of PHP scripts to avoid the overhead of parsing and compiling source code on each request.

Apache files compression is the fastest way to improve your Magento website speed and performance.

It is recommended to check compression status before and after compression activation. You can easily check compression and data savings level using http://www.whatsmyip.org/http_compression/ online service.