by ExtendWare
inifying HTML in Magento is one of those hidden Magento performance tweaks that few stores do. Almost everyone is minifying javascript and css thanks you our Minify Javascript / CSS Magento extension. However, few people enable the ability to Minify HTML which this extensions also supports. Why should I Minify HTML? It is important to optimize … Read more
inifying javascript is a very important aspect of a faster Magento store. For many stores, it is their greatest weakness on their Google page speed tests. Why should I minify javascript? It is important to minify your javascript because it slows down the page load of your Magento store. Many stores can save 500KB off … Read more
agento Image Optimization is an important performance enhancement that will speed up your Magento page load time. The easiest way to optimize all your Magento images without affecting your existing images is to use the Magento Image Optimization extension for Magento. Why and when is image optimization important in Magento? Image optimization affects every single … Read more
ome Magento store admins report that Magento is returning this exception when using memcached as a backend for either the Magento cache or the Magento Full Page Cache. This issue has its roots in the Zend Framework which returns this exception if memcache fails to return its extended stats. To resolve this is fairly simple. … Read more
xtendware’s Magento Full Page Cache for Magento has made many, many improvements recently. We have made small changes such as increased form key support and secure cookie support and large changes such as multi-level cache backends and faster secondary cache. Here is a run down of the two most important changes: Multi-Level Cache Backends – Do … Read more
xtendware’s Magento Improved Indexing helps make the backend more responsive. Many stores will discover that in time the saving of products, categories, and other items becomes slow. The more products / stores that you have the slower it can become. This is a big issue because time is money. Employees will do less work in the … Read more
How many times have you you experienced a slow down from your Magento store when : Checking out (specifically the last step) Saving products in the administrative area If so, you are likely suffering from a bloated, inefficient cache. You need Performant Cache Backends for Magento to resolve this issue. Why do these areas of store … Read more
ummary: Built-in merging of Javascript / CSS will slow down your store. You need Magento Minify Javascript / Css to properly merge files Many store owners are enabling Javascript / CSS merging in Magento in order to “increase performance”. You can go to System -> Developer and look under Javascript and CSS Settings to see … Read more
xtendware’s Magento Full Page Cache has an exciting new addon feature – Auto-flushing / tagging. The problem with many full page cache systems is that you must flush the entire cache after changing a product / category. This reduces the usefulness of the cache for quickly changing stores. Our Magento cache warmer / crawler extension alleviates … Read more
xtendware’s Magento Image Optimization is very important when trying to improve your Google page speed. This is especially true because Magento will auto-resize your catalog product images and when it does this they are not in their most optimal form. Previously, having an magento image optimized store was impossible. That has all changed! Now Magento Image … Read more