I am also seeing significant slowdowns when working with Configurable products. I have config products with 300-400 simple products attached to them. Loading a page of 9 of these products consistently takes 15-20 seconds. I have completely disabled JS and CSS, reloaded the page and it still takes 15-20 seconds.
The problem is with the underlying code, i honestly don’t think the solution comes from gzipping my JS and removing whitespace from CSS. Those might save a few milliseconds, but a faster codebase would save a lot more load time
Love Magento and think it will be great but for now it is still far too slow on a shared hosting environment. So we have begun rebuilding 6 Magento sites back into Joomla and Virtuemart.
Look forward to seeing the project grow and will be back for sure once speed is acceptable.
We develop sites for small businesses with small budgets so Shared hosting is the only way we can go. Obviously our larger clients are on Dedicated Servers. But For Magento to really succeed (and I am 100% sure it will) it needs to at least be as fast as Virtuemart on shared hosting.
we are hosting magento on a root server (yes, with hardware which should be able to handle the load) and it takes too long - after about 4 months of developing for magento we are stopping this and moving back to our old shop - at the moment we cant give magento to our customers, this a pain and its kinda embarrassing to have a shop which is that slow
but i have to say the programming under magento is realy well done - and the system itself is realy well thought, but its not ready for the internet and the e-commerce yet…
Well its way past release day beta has come and gone, were on rel 2 of release....
Server is:
Dell PowerEdge R900
FOUR Quad-Core Intel Xeon X7350 2.93GHz CPUs w/8MB (2x4MB) L2 cache
16GB ECC DDR2-667 SDRAM
2x Raid 0, 73GB 15,000 RPM SAS Raid hard drives
Bought it exclusively for magento.......
Page load times?
7.5s to just open up the blank, fresh installed, not a single item listed, magento default shop homepage
23s to load the admin backend dashboard
15s to go from dashboard to System -> Configuration
9s to go to Advanced-System and check up the cronjobs stats…
I mean i know we shouldnt be complainng.... but nearly a minute just to log on to the admin tool and view the cronjob data (and god forbid if had to click “SAVE")......
With this monster of a server magento should really be instantaneous.... whats up guys? all other php software weve tried is nearly faster than we can blink on this machine, and magento still takes it slow and steady.
What am I running? XAMPP, and Windows 2003 server.
So… please tell me you guys are working on this or have some sort of idea of how magento will be increased in speed by at least 75%… or you will make baby jesus cry....
Before you scream EWWW WINDOWS!!!! its company policy that all machines be back up and running in minutes should they break.... norton ghost and 5 minutes and we have the server back up like nothing ever happened even if its on another machine, linux wasnt exactly that easy or userfriendly.... so windows it is.
Good to see, that i’m not the only person who has reservations.
the speed isue is the only thing which keeps me away from magento. it would be wasted time, cause no one will surf threw a slow onlineshop. and magento is to slow at the moment. that’s a fact.
Windows 2003 Sever
Dual-Core AMD Opteron
2.4 GHZ
2GB RAM
XAMPPLITE
Avarage-response-time on Magento Start Page: 0.5seconds.
When I run this on a Linux platform we hope to improve the speed even further and hope to achieve response times down to 0.25 seconds. When I run Magento on Ramdisk I reduce speeds by 25%.
Do any of you guys know of a store that isn’t running slow? I see all the talk about speed and performance, which I do see, but I’ve also seen Magento run well enough where I wouldn’t consider speed an issue at all (4 seconds or less, average 1-2 seconds).
Server is:
Dell PowerEdge R900
FOUR Quad-Core Intel Xeon X7350 2.93GHz CPUs w/8MB (2x4MB) L2 cache
16GB ECC DDR2-667 SDRAM
2x Raid 0, 73GB 15,000 RPM SAS Raid hard drives
Something definitely isn’t configured right. We run very similar servers:
Quad core, dual proc, Intel Xeon (E5450) Harpertown 3.0 GHz
16GB ECC FB-DIMM DDR2
1000Mbps port uplink
Disk setup in either iSCSI or local RAID-10 depending on the server
RHEL 5 with Parallels Virtuozzo
The numbers you posted are amazingly high for the machine you have, leaving me scratching my head becuase we’re getting 1-2 second load times with store data and the longest process is adding an item to the cart (4 seconds).
Have you done any tweaks to the system at all (e.g. MySQL, PHP, opcode caching, mod_deflate, etc.)? Is anything else running on the server? Even that wouldn’t make sense if you had a blank, default setup. The machine is powerful enough that with no tweaks it still shouldn’t be running like that.
Could this possibly be because of Windows? I have absolutely no experience with Magento on Windows but can’t imagine that it would make such a big difference since we’re still dealing with the same underlying technology (PHP, MySQL, etc).
Interested to hear your progress/comments on this...and I’m still scratching my head
Can one recommend reliable sites for speed test? I did a few test and was getting very mixed results. I am getting 3 - 4 sec for catalog pages and 1 - 2 sec for homepage and CMS pages; however on other test site I get some 20% faster.
Can one recommend reliable sites for speed test? I did a few test and was getting very mixed results. I am getting 3 - 4 sec for catalog pages and 1 - 2 sec for homepage and CMS pages; however on other test site I get some 20% faster.
On a 2GB / Core 2 Duo / WinXP box running XAMPP, with a clean install of magento-1.0.19870 and no products, it takes ~3-15 seconds to navigate any pages in admin or frontend. E.g.
* clicking on ‘My Cart’ (no products in store, nothing in cart) takes ~8 seconds each time (I’ve tried multiple times)
* adding a new category takes ~8 seconds
* adding a product took ~15 seconds
Apache is hitting ~40% CPU for each page navigation / admin save.
Every other script I run locally is instantaneous - ecommerce, wiki, CMS, forum, etc.
The demo on this website took ~9 seconds to login to admin, ~8 seconds to load page after clicking ‘Add Product’.
This performance level makes it effectively unusable for me.
