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Magento is a very popular eCommerce application. It offers a great deal of customization and abilities from initial install. Here are a few suggestions for optimizing a Magento installation. Enabling Output Compression In your .htaccess file for Magento you will find a section of text starting wit...

First-time visitors to any web page has to make several HTTP requests. By using the “Expires” header you make the components of the requests cacheable. This avoids unnecessary HTTP requests on subsequent page views. You want to find the area of the .htaccess file that starts with <IfModulemod_ex...

Merge JS and CSS Files This particular tweak will reduce the number of HTTP requests on your eCommerce site. [box type=”alert” border=”full”]Note: This can sometimes break some applications. After performing the following steps, please ensure that the site still performs as it did before enabling ...

The model Magento uses to store customer and product data results in longer than average SQL queries and more reads. Enabling the Flat Catalog option for Categories and Products will merge product data into one table, therefore improving performance. Login to your administration area and go to – Sy...

Login to your administration area and go to – System > Cache Management Next, click on the Select All link Finally, make sure the Actions is set to Enable and click submit Disable Error Logging Login to your administration area and go to – System > Configuration > Developer Under ...