Magento

This tweak of the category pages helped me a lot

http://www.magentocommerce.com/boards/viewthread/11486/

The speed of the hard drive will have a big impact on the speed of the Magento’s performance.
You will see huge impovements if you go with SAS hard drives over the likes of SATA/IDE (raid or not doesn’t matter).

This is one of many reasons why users see substantial speed boost when when they go with us

I think if you put caching and sessions into RAM and using opcode cacher (apc, xcache), there will no difference in using SAS or SATA hdd’s.

Magento’s own demo store is slow.  It does not instill much confidence when even they cannot get it to go fast. 

I added to cart and it took 10 seconds to load the page.

argonius - 17 July 2008 11:46 PM

I think if you put caching and sessions into RAM and using opcode cacher (apc, xcache), there will no difference in using SAS or SATA hdd’s.

I don’t know about that, we’ve tested various disk types and it certainly makes a difference.

Yes, this is mainly probably due to the bottlenecks of the mysql database access against SATA/IDE drives.
Magento is heavily database dependent and when there are so many queries being passed around, the disk i/o is a big contributor to the bottleneck of the entire system.
So even if you have the fastest CPU in the world, if your I/O speed is limited, you will not see much performance gain.

And to be quite frank, yes i agree that the Varien’s magento demo store is a bit slow.

But if you check out our demo site of www.magentify.com, you’ll start seeing substantial difference in speeds.

Hello, I’m really interested in Magento, but well, like many here, I’m really concerned about the client confort and so the speed ...

I saw that the 1.1 version came out and ha increase the speed, but nobody has post anythingsince the new version ... does anyone has tried that version and tell me if it’s usable now ?

Thx in advance

1.1.1 seem to produce the same type of speed as when you enable opcode cachers like eaccelerators/apc/xcache. Looks like they are just caching everything internally.
Check out www.magentify.com for actual live demonstration of v 1.1.1.

Thx SimpleHelix for your reply, I just check www.magentify.com and .. I’m afraid this is still too slow as my opinion.
I’m about to create my website on a personal webserver, and I can’t afford to buy a brand new dedicate server just for the website.

Thx anyway for your hard work, I’ll check your evolution to see if there’s improvement

Hello goulloux,

Can I ask what the load time is you are getting?
Shouldn’t be no slower than 2-3 seconds.

On average its either 0.7 to 1.5 seconds. Which is pretty much on par with even oscommerce sites.

SimpleHelix.com - 30 July 2008 02:12 AM

Hello goulloux,

Can I ask what the load time is you are getting?
Shouldn’t be no slower than 2-3 seconds.

On average its either 0.7 to 1.5 seconds. Which is pretty much on par with even oscommerce sites.

From Slovenia response is in half a second, and fully loaded in 1 to 1.5 sec., most slowest was 2 seconds. Very good performance indeed.

...but this good performance is good because of empty server and site visitors is I guess none.

...so magento is still slow under heavy traffic. Can you imagine 40.000 visitors daily hitting magento store???

You’d be surprised this is the same server our customers are hosted on.

Magento’s speed has greatly improve since v1.1.

It’s blazing now.  Most pages take 1 sec.  Adding to cart takes 1 sec.  I remember Magento v1.0 taking 6 secs to add to cart and 3-4 secs for page loads.

Check out my site at: GeekGears.com

Hyteckit, could you share the server specs please? I’m sue an upgrade and want to make sure it suits Magento. Your GG site speeds is what I’d expect. If you could share what your server specs are and whether you did any advanced trickery to further speed things up, that’d be grand.

Don’t know what my server specs are since I’m not on a dedicated server. I’m on a VPS.

I think it might be a quad 3GHz Xeon dual core with Ultra SCSI hard drive.  I think the server has 8 cpu cores running at 3GHz.  Or maybes it’s just a dual 3GHz Xeon?  Hmm..