Comments on: Site Speed – Magento community, do not panic!

By: Arun

Arun — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 11:47:14 +0000

Site: http://magentodeveloperstips.blogspot.com/

By default there is any option to Show Date of Birth in Registration form
Go to:
System –> Configuration –> Customer Configuration (Left Tab) –> Select Name? and? Address? Options –> Enable Show Date of Birth field.

By: Lukas

Lukas — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 13:29:58 +0000

I am using MTurbo http://www.artio.net/magento-extensions/m-turbo-accelerator to speed up Magento

By: Scalesmart

Scalesmart — Wed, 05 May 2010 13:32:58 +0000

Its gone some way to putting my mind at ease, we lost a huge chunk of indexed pages a week or so ago, but so did a number of other sites I have and use. I guess its Google’s way of purging.

By: Magento-Israel

Magento-Israel — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 20:48:32 +0000

It is important to host your website as close as possible to your customers’ location and use fast DNS servers with low latency. These conditions are really helpful not just for point of website speed but for relevancy.

By: Chris McKee

Chris McKee — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 10:32:02 +0000

Its also significantly faster on Lighttpd; the downside is that some bits require apache-modules (google checkout required mod-apache to authenticate … unless you hack it up *cough* not that anyone would do that)

By: Toni Anicic

Toni Anicic — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 10:29:36 +0000

Here’s another cool benchmarking, running Magento on two different servers and the difference in requests:

http://turnkeye.com/blog/2010/04/nginx-vs-litespeed-test-magento/

By: Tomas Novoselic

Tomas Novoselic — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 10:19:47 +0000

@Peeter
Benchmarks here:
http://www.magentocommerce.com/whitepaper/

Yes, true, that’s enterprise, but it shouldn’t be much different.
And yes, thats not some kind of independent study, but enough for me.

By: Chris McKee

Chris McKee — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 10:05:46 +0000

Magento suffers from the many many many layers of abstraction; but using the compiler a half decent VPS and the caching in 1.4 seems to give it a fair old advantage as well as setting your htaccess/apacheconf expiry, gzip and minifying your scripts etc; spriting your reused images… basically the crazy stuff you should do with any site.

By: Toni Anicic

Toni Anicic — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 10:00:56 +0000

Peeter,

I can’t deny that some other e-commerce solutions can have much better speed. The point of the post is that it’s not likely that a well optimized Magento store will suffer penalty due to the site speed ranking factor.

By: Peeter

Peeter — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 09:41:39 +0000

haha “I’ve seen super fast Magento stores.” links and benchmarks or it didn’t happen

in terms of slow we usually mean requests per second, currently the case is that no matter how much hardware you throw on magento application server your requests per second won’t increase as much as you like and even with 12 cores and 14Gigs of ram and cache in memcached it’s still slow as hell