Sometimes your Magento site may go really slow and this kind of slow performance can never be appreciated as it badly mars your business. In fact, the slower the site works, the lesser your sales are. Also, it has been found that online shoppers tend to vary from the site if they are dissatisfied with it. Thus, it becomes important for you to make your site work better and faster and keep your visitors more satisfied.
So, how will you let it happen? How will you make sure that your site is performing well, just the way you expect it to? Below are some of the points that Magento developers need to keep in their mind for making the site work faster and perform better.
The web server
If your site is supposed to generate a really large amount of traffic and of course revenue on the basis of that very traffic, you need to take care of the server properly. Be sure to use multiple web servers, especially for handling the browsing and checkout requests. It will be still better if you can get your Database Server and Web Sever split. This is logical and makes sense because web servers need high spec CPUs whereas on the other hand Database Servers need fast disks/SSD and larger memory. And if you find it possible to get a separate backend Server for getting the CRON and admin user’s tasks done, it will make the operation far swifter and smarter.
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Optimize the Images
Images are next most important factors that can make your site under-perform. Thus, you need to take care of their size while including them on the site. First, try to keep them below 10 kb. Second, look forward to compress them for this you can always use some kind of image compression program. Third, never feel shy to crop away the extra white space left on the images and also don’t forget to specify the dimensions of the image. Finally, make efforts to stay away from transparent images, GIF and PNG8 files as much as possible.
Clean Your Database Time To Time
This is simplest possible thing yet most crucial to do from time to time. Magento is essentially a platform that kind of maintains several tables for its logging activity. These activities may include details related to customer access, product comparisons made and so on. Now, with increasing number of customer visits and other activities taking place on your site these database logs continue to grow. Now, if you do not clean them up from time to time they will surely interfere in the performance of your site.
Interestingly, Magento even has a special mechanism for the cleaning of these logs on regular basis but since it is disabled by default, the clearing doesn’t take place on its own. Thus, as a user, your first and foremost job is to turn on the inbuilt cleaning mechanism of the platform.
Full Page Caching Option
When you decide to use Magento Enterprise platform for building your site, there comes with it numerous inbuilt attributes that are not only useful but also wonderful. But as they are not turned On or enabled from the beginning, they don’t start working until you enable them. One such feature is default full page caching option. You need to enable it as it is important for opening up all kinds of improvement opportunities related to the core performance of your site.
Simply, focus on these above mentioned points and your site will perform well and keep your customers and visitors satisfied!