An Excerpt from the Interview

by Cloudways

4 Ways to Improve Magento Performance

by Tom

Robertshaw

Who is Tom Robertshaw?

He is the Co-founder of @Meanbee

He is a Certified Magento Developer

User Experience & Responsive Design

Researcher & Advocate

Producer of the ecommerce Platform Survey

Tom’s Advice on How to Improve Magento Performance!

He said, “Performance is an emergent system property so you

can't just add it.”

So if you think of a worthy system, it should consist of:

1. Solid Magento Theme

2. Backend Magento Build

3. Cache Mechanisms

4. HostingLearn the Details.

You Need to have a Solid Magento Theme

If you've got a bad theme then

you're at risk of failing before you've

started. Frontend page load speed

is going to be affected massively

based on how it's built.

Backend Magento Build

What third-party code has been thrown

in there without considering its impact

on the system, particularly with regards

to the site speed.

Things like Magento profiling or New

Relic can give you real insight into

what's causing issues after launch.

Cache Mechanisms

Tools such as FPC and Varnish

don't speed up issue resolution

themselves but do facilitate scaling

Magento Hosting A good host that has real Magento experience is

going to be valuable to your site both with day-to-day

running as well as providing customer support.

Rather than considering what hosting package you

can get away with, consider what the value is to your

business and what the business can afford.

Especially if you're on shared hosting and have bad

neighbor issues, consider what that downtime is worth

to your business to realize what you would really pay

for great hosting.

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