I have three magento stores (two with custom design and one with the default magento theme) and the load times are 1.04, 5.34, and 3.96 seconds (with the default magento theme). I use semi-dedicated hosting.
I think the problem is that some people want to list “New Products” on their home page, and it’s contributing to the slow loading times, plus calinT suggested the solution we’re trying to debug in this thread. So, it’s a little off topic, but not uncalled for.
Anyway… back to the topic at hand. Does anyone know what the TTL (Time to Live) of the Magento cache is? Can we configure it?
Yes, there definitely is a speed increase in v1.1. Most notably visible is in the add-cart and on the admin.
But ofcourse, with correct optimizations with caching, some of us were already seeing such speed but now it seems even without server-side caching speed is now not an issue here.
For example, when adding to cart:
0.19874 = 5 - 10 seconds to
1.1 = 1 - 2 seconds
And on the admin, most pages now appear instantly.
I find significant speed improvement v1.1.1 in Catalog listing page (max 33 products).
In the homepage, where I have 6 new products, 6 new featured products and 3 best sellers. I remember it was pretty fast (10 - 15 seconds) even after I clear the caches, reopen the browser, but recently it became very slow, first time loading I saw a blank page in the first 15 - 30 seconds, then everything loads simotaniously. With the latest version, first time loading takes about 10 to 15 seconds seconds, a refresh or open a new window takes less than 4 seconds.
