My books/cdvds distribution catalog,
in its raw format (with only its own fields),
runs on the 100s of 1000s of titles.
What to speak when I will have to add
all those Magento’s attributes! …

Though I am quite confident Magento
will be upto the mark, once finalized,
still a constant anxiety
is often buzzing in my head, telling:
“Can Magento handle this?”:roll: 

Thank you for performing these tests
and furthering everybody’s confidence
in Magento’s truly PRO features.

I know a lot depends on the HARDware side
(bigger data = tougher hardware).

However, the software, too,
has to keep up with the rhytm and,
as far as I can see now,
I think Magento is a good candidate for the post:
let’s prove it

Try http://www.mobileedgedev.com which is hosted with us.

So I think a good combination of server hardware, server optimization, and good xhtml skills, magento can be still quite fast.

Hi,

Performance is going to be a major for us - I’m sure this is something Varien are looking into in time for Version 1.0. Lets face it - I think throwing more hardware at it might be the answer in the short term.

SH:

That website took a long time to load for me the first couple times, about 15 seconds.

I did a test from Pingdom and it came back with 13 seconds the first time, and then it averaged 6 seconds every other time.

Now I know Pingdom isn’t the end-all for testing, but it does provide a pretty decent example of how slow/fast a site will load.

I did notice they aren’t running the 1.0 version, but regardless, with those kinds of numbers I would have left the site already (thinking it was down).

What I’ve noticed, and I wonder if anyone else is seeing this, that the first-time load for Magento is really slow, and after that it’s much faster (maybe because of Magento’s caching?).

I’m doing hard refreshes every time too to eliminate caching on the browser end, but that’s just something I noticed not matter what site is being posted.

Well, interesting stuff, hopefully we can come up with some standard benchmark tests to run and have a repository of that data to share results and see what works the best.

I’ve been doing a little tweaking on a test site I have (on my personal VPS) and am getting it to load in 2.1 seconds.

This _is_ the first version of Magento though, and they did say they’ll be making strides to improving the performance, and I know that will come as the product grows and expands so we’ll just have to wait for now.

Crucial,

That site is now hosted with Media Temple, hence the slowness.

He says it was the decision of his COO for the move to Media Temple and it is something that was out of his hands.