Magento Site Performance Optimization

Название : Magento Site Performance Optimization
Автор : Mathieu Nayrolles
Издательство: Packt Publishing
Год издания : 2014
Страниц: 92
Формат : PDF
Размер файла: 1,3 MB
Язык : English
In the open source, e-commerce platform community, Magento has established itself as the most popular e-commerce platform in the market. It is supported by a very strong developer community and it fits most merchants' needs. Despite this leadership, Magento has a major problem; it is very slow. To serve customers in a more efficient way, we need a tool that can optimize our sites' performance. Even if the tool is able to boost the speed of the site to some extent, it can still be a very crucial factor when there are so many competing websites on the market.
This book will start by providing a list of trustee companies to host a Magento website with high traffic. Also, we will discuss the required configurations in terms of amount of RAM, CPU, and HDD.
What you will learn from this book
Configure MySQL for high performance
Optimize the database model
Take advantage of Varnish, APC, memcached, and FPC
Explore built-in Magento caching mechanisms
Install and tune Apache, lighttpd, and Nginx for Magento
Supercharge your website with external services
Use the Facebook HipHop Virtual Machine to serve Magento
Gain more customers by enhancing your website