Speed Up Magento

Overview

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, uncomment this line in your .htaccess file:

#php_flag zlib.output_compression on