{"id":2564,"date":"2014-01-31T12:25:34","date_gmt":"2014-01-31T02:25:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.macquarietelecom.com\/?p=2564"},"modified":"2023-03-01T16:41:35","modified_gmt":"2023-03-01T05:41:35","slug":"one-simple-way-optimise-magento-site-improve-performance-commonly-viewed-pages-1000x","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/macquarietechnologygroup.com\/news\/one-simple-way-optimise-magento-site-improve-performance-commonly-viewed-pages-1000x\/","title":{"rendered":"One simple way to optimise your Magento site and improve performance on commonly viewed pages by 1,000x"},"content":{"rendered":"
Many of our customers use the Magento eCommerce platform to power their online presence. This means that our team of support engineers has a great deal of experience in how to get the best performance from this popular platform.<\/p>\n
Magento is a great solution for eCommerce because the customisation options and extensions allow you to create a professional, robust site without reinventing the wheel. However, the \u2018out of the box\u2019 settings are designed for simplicity rather than pure performance, so you need to tweak certain settings to get the best performance.<\/p>\n
As an example, here\u2019s one of the simplest optimisations you can do – adding a front-end cache. Properly configuring Varnish and Magento will allow static and frequently viewed dynamic pages to be cached and rendered to the browser much faster. Varnish also takes the PHP load off the server which means that your website can handle many more users simultaneously and many more transactions per second.<\/p>\n
We ran two identical virtual servers and installed the Varnish cache on one. This simple change improved performance over 1290x than the standard installation.<\/p>\n
Read on for more detail on how you can get the same performance boost:<\/p>\n
We installed 2 identical virtual machines with identical sets of server resources before installing Magento Community Edition 1.8.<\/p>\n