10 Point checklist to boost your Magento store

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Magento is one of the leading and commonly used
open source ecommerce platform. If your Magento
store is not correctly optimized, it will run at
a snail's pace. Most of the times, even
experienced Magento developers could miss these
preferences to boost the speed and performance of
your Magento store for loading the pages more
rapidly. Ways to increase your magento stores
performance can range from admin to server or
hosting settings. They could be commonly used but
can result greatly for increasing the page load
speed.
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Below stated checklist will ensure if you missed
some important factors that are slowing down your
Magento stores speed. All further mentioned
suggestions are general guidelines. Results may
vary between different Magento installations.
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1 JS AND CSS FILES
Combine all JavaScript and CSS files into one by
compressing them. This reduces the number of HTTP
requests made by website to the server.
Recommended Alternative Compressor - minify JS
CSS
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HOW TO
In the admin panel System gt Configuration,
Advanced gt Developer Javascript Settings, CSS
Settings Set Merge Javascript Files and Merge
CSS Files to Yes.
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2 CACHING
Cache is the process of storing certain elements
of a web page. Enabling cache will take less time
to load pages because temporary data of that site
will be stored locally. Recommended
Alternative PageCache extension by Varnish
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HOW TO
In the admin panel Go to System gt Cache
Management. Enable all the required cache types
from there and press "Submit"
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3 REINDEX DATA
Indexing makes it easy for the system to search
and fetch the requested data. As such, regularly
indexing your Magento store's data will have a
positive impact on the overall speed performance.
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HOW TO
In the admin panel Go to System gt Index
Management Select all indexes and hit Reindex
data button.
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4 COMPILATION
Every time a visitor accesses a page, Magento
has to pull active scripts. You can solve this by
enabling compilation. Note Compilation must be
disabled every time you update any themes,
extensions etc. otherwise they could cause errors.
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HOW TO
In the admin panel Go to System gt Tools gt
Compilation. If the Compiler Status is disabled
then click on the top right button Run
Compilation Process
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5 FLAT CATALOG
Attributes that apply to products and categories
are stored in separate database tables depending
on their types. Flattening will put all
attributes in one table which will have a
positive impact on site speed especially if it
has more than 1000 products.
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HOW TO
In the admin panel Go to System gt
Configuration gt Catalog Set Use Flat Catalog
Category and Use Flat Catalog Product to 'Yes
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6 DISABLE ETAGS
ETags are a way for browsers to validate cached
components across subsequent visits. They can
slow down a site served from a cluster if the
cluster hasnt implemented them properly. It is
best to just turn them off.
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HOW TO
You will need to disable eTags from the
.htaccess file. Just paste the above code in
your Magento websites .htaccess and compare the
performance.
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7 EXPIRES HEADERS
EXPIRES HEADERS
Browsers use expires headers to determine how
long a page component can be cached. Static
components like images should have far-future
expires headers but all page components should
have expires headers.
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HOW TO
Similar to eTags configuration, to activate
expires headers feature, add ExpiresActive On and
ExpiresDefault "access plus 1 year" in the
.htaccess file.
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8 GZIP COMPRESSION
GZip compression is known to improve Magentos
performance. You can gain more rapid performance
by editing this too in your store's .htaccess
file.
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HOW TO
Add the above mentioned code in your websites
.htaccess file.
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9 MYSQL OPTIMIZATION
MySQL configuration optimization allows you to
manage the cache size and limit. Note Do this
only if you have RAM around 1GB.
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HOW TO

• Adjust these cache query settings in your
  stores my.cnf file
• query_cache_type
• query_cache_size
• query_cache_limit

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10 DISABLING LOGS
It will turn all logs off so that the system
need not waste time with that. However, this may
become disadvantageous at the time of
troubleshooting. Spare this option for the last
only if the loading speed is still very low and
you are sure to go ahead without logs.
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HOW TO
In the admin panel Go to System gt
Configuration gt Developer gt Log Settings
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