3 Quick Tips to Speed Up Magento

By Hendy Irawan on June 11, 2010

“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:

  1. Make sure you have about 100 MB additional space
  2. Go to Tools -> Compilation
  3. 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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  • Zdhkw

    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?

  • Joe

    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

  • http://www.HendyIrawan.com/ Hendy Irawan

    Delete includes/config.php to disable Compiler.

    When enabling Compiler, you need to “Run Compilation” and not simply “enable”.

  • 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

  • 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

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    Thanks for sharing this tips here, i just know downloaded some free magento extensions, and implemented too and i am trying to extens my website with more and more functionalities, also this are good steps to follow will make sure to implement it too.

  • http://www.mactonweb.com web development bangalore

    This are really good stuff.Have methods to improve speed of loading homepage? Thanks for sharing this tips….