Difference between revisions of "Speed Up Magento"

Revision as of 23:50, 14 April 2014

Magento has some quick-win areas, and some which can take longer. Let's start with the first.

In Firebug, expand your page html section, and look for gzip in the response.

If it's not there you need to turn this on at a server level.

If you're running nginx, add this to your .conf file, inside the location sections, then restart nginx:

gzip on;

If you're running linux, look for this section in your .htaccess file:

## enable apache served files compression

Now test the same section in Firebug and the HTML response should be showing 'gzip'.

@@ Line 4: / Line 4: @@
 ==Quick Wins==
-===Gzip HTML===
+===Gzip HTML / CSS / javascript===
 In Firebug, expand your page html section, and look for gzip in the response.
@@ Line 14: / Line 14: @@
 : <code>gzip on;</code>
-'''If you're running linux''', uncomment this line in your .htaccess file:
+'''If you're running linux''', look for this section in your .htaccess file:
-: <code>#php_flag zlib.output_compression on</code>
+: <code>## enable apache served files compression</code>
+* Try uncommenting all code lines in that section.
+* Now test the same section in Firebug and the HTML response should be showing 'gzip'.
+* Bonus points here if the .css and .js files are also showing as gzipped.
 [[Category:Extension Setup]]