Speed Up Magento

Overview

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

Quick Wins

Gzip HTML / CSS / javascript

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

• 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.