3 Quick Tips to Speed Up Magento
Written on June 11, 2010 by Hendy Irawan
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“Magento is so slow” is one of the complaints I often hear about this online store web application (the other complaint is “Magento is too complex!”).
Here are some tips to really speed up Magento and make it blazingly fast.
#1: Enable Caching
Since Magento 1.4, Caching is enabled by default. So just don’t turn it off, unless really necessary, i.e. for development purposes.
#2: Use a PHP Accelerator such as APC
Using a PHP Accelerator is now a sane necessity. I personally use APC in my development laptop, and so does my web hosting provider.
If you use Ubuntu, installing APC is very simple:
sudo aptitude install php5-apc
It will be enable automatically.
For Magento installation in your web hosting, make sure to enable APC in php.ini configuration file by adding:
extension = apc.so
#3: Enable Magento Compiler
Magento 1.4 and newer comes with Magento Compiler by default. But many people are not aware of this feature, and that it’s extremely powerful.
To use it:
- Make sure you have about 100 MB additional space
- Go to Tools -> Compilation
- Click “Run Compilation Process”
Make sure Compiler status is “Enabled”.
Now you should notice huge difference in speed of your Magento Commerce installation! 
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It's a great article.Thanks a lot! I had enable compiler on backend, the speed of all is good, except the speed of loading homepage have no change.Have methods to improve speed of loading homepage?
when I enabled Magento Compiler I got the following error message… and it killed my main site… I also lost access to admin… all of my other stores are ok…
anyone with any idea whats wrong???
JOe
Delete includes/config.php to disable Compiler.
When enabling Compiler, you need to “Run Compilation” and not simply “enable”.
I did am still having issues with magento compiler… I am able to compile and enable and it does make a difference with page loading speed… I am running a server with lightspeed and I am using fooman’s speed up extension… the enabling compiler goes give me a 50% boost…
But I am not able to access admin… it times out. I disable compiler and clear cache I am able to access admin…
any one with any ideas…
JOe
I did am still having issues with magento compiler… I am able to compile and enable and it does make a difference with page loading speed… I am running a server with lightspeed and I am using fooman's speed up extension… the enabling compiler goes give me a 50% boost…
But I am not able to access admin… it times out. I disable compiler and clear cache I am able to access admin…
any one with any ideas…
JOe