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10 ways to make Magento faster that have (almost) nothing to do with Magento

Technical Manager of Education

and Consulting

Kevin Schroeder@kpschrade http://www.eschrade.com/

Some stuff I’ve done

“Why you no build fast website!?”(This is your boss asking you)

Watch your resources

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Event based systems work best for static content

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Give the customer something to look at

Which looks worse to your customer?What is more important?

How fast your site actually isor how fast your customer thinks it is?

Keep content close to the customer

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Minimize external service calls

What are these?

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Focus more on the end user, less on raw page stats

What people tend to focus on

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Reduce distinct assets

Which is better?

Not Convinced?

Need More Evidence?

Test with production scale data

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• Put data as close to the endpoint as reasonably as is possible

• Minimize superfluous operations as reasonably as is possible

• Never redo an operation unless it is unreasonable to do so

Principles of High Performance

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