12 replies to this topic

[LindaMari]

My prestashop is very slow, 

im waiting to load my website about 5 seconds, it's so long and my customers don't like it

is there any way to speed it up a little? for example to 1 second?

[vekia]

for the first, check:

 

adv. parameters > performance tab in your back office

check if:

- force compilation is turned OFF

- cache is turned ON

[hrbj]

do you use APC ? in some cases it is worth to use it, it can increase speed of website very very good

[LindaMari]

for the first, check:

 

adv. parameters > performance tab in your back office

check if:

- force compilation is turned OFF

- cache is turned ON

thank you vekia i checked these options in my back office and i changed them as you suggested now my shop is a bit faster

i want to increase speed a bit more

 

this is why i have to ask about:

 

 

 

do you use APC ? in some cases it is worth to use it, it can increase speed of website very very good

i totally don't know what is APC, can you be so kind and write something more about it, please?

[Tom Evans]

What type of hosting are you using; shared ? dedicated? As per vekia's suggestion you have done force compile and cache on. Have you installed something or done any change in settings?

[LindaMari]

im on shared hosting on hostgator

i turned cache on, and turned of force compile, my shop is a bit faster now but i think that it's not enough.

i can share url on pm.

[hrbj]

as far as i know hostgator doesn't offer APC but i might be wrong

someone uses hostgator?

[Tom Evans]

Okay, Let's started with some tips - Step by step process:

 

1. SEO & URLs: It does help when caching the pages. Compared to using page names with lots variables which are hard to cache, it is better to cache .html or .htm pages
This can be done directly from section Preferences / SEO & URLs .

 

2. Smarty cache: Now start with the exact settings for properly caching the pages. First go to Advanced Parameters / Performance.  check the following options:

•     Never recompile template files
•     Check Cache
•     Do not open console

 

3.  CCC (Combine, Compress and Cache): As it was before deactivated, we only need to check:

• Use CCC for CSS
• Use CCC for JavaScript.
• Keep HTML as original
• Keep inline JavaScript in HTML as original
• Check Apache optimization
   

4. Ciphering: usually leave it as by default.

 

5. Caching: If possible, try using memcached, APC or Xcache, if your hosting service does not offers this, you can use the normal File System cache. The next is the CDN option, you can also use a CDN for speeding up and caching even more.

6. Implementing browser static cached file for prestashop: Its a fancy name, but its really just some .htaccess rules with some expire and caching headers.  See the code:

 

1<ifmodule mod_mime.c>
2 <filesmatch ".html.gz$">
3   ForceType text/html
4   FileETag None
5 </filesmatch>
6  AddEncoding gzip .gz
7  AddType text/html .gz
8</ifmodule>
9<ifmodule mod_deflate.c>
10  SetEnvIfNoCase Request_URI .gz$ no-gzip
11</ifmodule>
12<ifmodule mod_headers.c>
13  Header set Vary "Accept-Encoding, Cookie"
14  Header set Cache-Control 'max-age=3600, must-revalidate'
15</ifmodule>
16<ifmodule mod_expires.c>
17  ExpiresActive On
18  ExpiresByType text/html A3600
19</ifmodule>

 

Open the .htaccess file inside your document root of your website and add the above lines just under your existing .htaccess rules.
With this you set a timeout of 3600 seconds on each resource request from your website, on next request of the same page, the user will use the pages from their browser cache and he will also be happy that the page is loading faster.

[mariajohns]

By checking all the changes check your website's speed here: https://developers.g...speed/insights/

[el patron]

My prestashop is very slow, 

im waiting to load my website about 5 seconds, it's so long and my customers don't like it

is there any way to speed it up a little? for example to 1 second?

 

What is your exact PrestaShop version.

 

in 1.6-1.6.0.6 native PrestaShop forces all javascript to bottom (significant improvement of above the fold page render)

in 1.6.0.7 and higher, this is option bo-->advanced parms-->performance (move javascript to bottom)

 

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[apachebooster]

Hi,

 

One of the easiest and the reliable method to enhance the prestashop performance would be to install "Apachebooster".

Its an integration of varnish and nginx and thus caches the dynamic contents as well and make the website much faster for the end customers.

Please read more about the plugin at : Download Apachebooster

[alexnguyen]

Hi there,

In your case, you might face with an old version of Prestashop, so upgrade your Prestashop could be a good solution. If you are using Prestashop version 1.3, you can upgrade Prestashop from 1.3 to 1.6 or upgrade Prestashop from 1.4 to 1.6 if your Prestashop is version 1.4 and upgrade Prestashop from 1.5 to 1.6 if your current prestashop is version 1.5. Hopefully you will solve your trouble as soon as possible! 

Good luck!