Optimization Steps to Speed up your Magento Store

Today is a world characterized by speed. Everything there is in the tech world is appreciated by its capacity to be incredibly fast without a sacrifice on the utility serviced to the people. Ever since they venture into the digital world, businesses all around the world need to maintain an e-commerce site that’s fully functional and fast to keep money flowing into the company. The general rule in this situation is: “the faster and more reliable your e-Commerce site is, the better its performance in selling company products.” There are a lot of 3rd party applications that can build your Magento Store for optimum speed, some of them are free, and others are products in themselves. The important thing is that you make your e-commerce site as fast as possible without putting into jeopardy the functionality of the web page.

1. Fooman Speedster

A freeware designed by the makers of Magento themselves; the main action of this add-on is to combine repetitive coding in order to minimize data transfer via the web. The smaller the data needed to be trafficked, the lesser time it’ll take Magento to prime-up, the faster the e-commerce site will be, and ultimately, the more revenues it can generate. By combining multiply JavaScript and CSS files into one for each, Fooman Speedster is able to minimize the page load time. Once installed, Fooman Speedster is fully automated and fully functional already, capable of adapting to changes in JavaScript and CSS codings.

2. GT Speed

Another freeware, GT Speed does basically similar actions like Fooman Speedster. It comprises multiple JavaScript and CSS files into only two files to minimize HTTP requests into a single JavaScript and a single CSS file. The mechanism is fairly the same with that of Fooman Speedster. Aside from such, GT Speed also removes excess data and comments to minimize the scripts used in your site. Removing these unnecessary data would greatly reduce the loading speed my minimizing the size of the site’s scripts. It also allows the contents of your site to be cacheable. Through this feature, the user that once visited the e-commerce site could easily access the page again at a rapid rate.

3. Nitrogento

Nitrogento is different from the preceding two in that it is not free. It does claim reduce loading time to about only 0.05 ms, something very promising for any website. Imagine if in a fraction of a second after a potential customer expressed interest in buying a certain product, was easily directed towards the point-of-sale counterpart of your website. It could potentially reduce the time of the customer for doubts and second thoughts. Aside from that, it also decreases the load of the server by 8 times! Still very promising for a website. These and other incredible features do come with a price though. But, of course, €299 may be a good investment if you are catering to a large volume or number of sales per day.

Author Bio:-
This article is contributed by ValueCoders, an IT outsourcing company, specialized in Magento development and web application development. One can hire Magento developer here for effective Magento development services by visiting the website.

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