5 Smart Tricks to Speed Up Your Magento Built Site

If you are one of those Magento site owners faced with the problem of slow loading speed, this post brings some help for you. PHPProgrammers, being pioneered in Magento development in Australia for years has been seeking for techniques that will curb the problems of website loading, to provide a seamless experience to the users. Here are some major tricks that might prove fruitful for your site and enhance its performance impressively. (Click to Tweet)

Upgrade your store to the Magento’s latest version

Being an owner, keep your store always updated using the latest version of Magento, whenever it is available in the market. This is necessary for accelerating speed as the newest versions are always free from bugs, equipped with security patches and then comes with many improvements.

Limit the modules and extensions

If you are deploying more extensions to run your stores, there are more HTTP requests needed to be sent. This is apart from the increase in Javascript and CSS files load which together raises the load time of the site. So, it is wiser to choose only some limited modules and extensions that are most needed.

Merging up CSS and Javascript

Combining up CSS and Javascript files into one common file leads to decrease in the number of HTTP requests. This directly benefits site’s speed by reducing page load time and in versions of Magento, you obviously get the feature by which you can merge CSS and Javascript files.

Enabling Cache

You can enable three types of cache for your Magento store, i.e. Magento cache, Server cache and External cache. While for enabling server and external cache you need be aware or knowledgeable so you may need the help of some hosting support to get things sorted, but more Magento cache things are easier. Select Cache management from the System in the Admin and then select all cache types and set enable

Optimise website images

More than half of an eCommerce store is flooded with images, so it is important to optimise the product images of your site to enhance its loading speed. Compressing the images using different photo editing tools before embedding them to the sites is one way to optimise images. You can also use extensions such as GTSpeed, which includes image optimisation as well as CSS minification and concatenation.

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When applying these tactics can help you gain speed for your website considerably, then get this done now as high-speed performance and less loading time are prerequisites for good customer experience and driving traffic to the site. So, get in touch with us and get the help of our team of seasoned Magento developers, who being experts for years in the field of website development, knows how to leverage these techniques and many more to enhance website loading speed.