coolblueweb/magento-1-7

Base Magento 1.7 Build for Development Use

Magento Optimization Guide

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By CoolBlueWeb (Updated on 11/12/13)

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###Administration Settings

From Magento > Admin > System > Configuration

• Logging should be cleaned regularly or disabled completly.

  • To clean logs regularly, set "Enable Log Cleaning" to "Yes" in Advanced > System > Log Cleaning
  • To disable logging, set "Enable Logs" to "No" in Advanced > Developer > Log Settings

• Enable Magento Caching in Magento > System > Cache Management

• Merge CSS and JS Files in System > Advanced > Developer

• Set Cookie Lifetime to 4200 in System > General > Web > Session Cookie Management

• Enable Compiler by running this command in Shell from the Magento Root

    php compiler.php compile
  

Server Optimization

• Install APC Caching (Example Setup Below)

    apc.enabled = 1
    apc.optimization  = 0
    apc.shm_segments = 1
    apc.shm_size = 768M
    apc.ttl = 48000
    apc.user_ttl  = 48000
    apc.num_files_hint = 8096
    apc.user_entries_hint = 8096
    apc.mmap_file_mask = /tmp/apc.XXXXXX
    apc.enable_cli = 1
    apc.cache_by_default  = 1
    apc.max_file_size = 10M
    apc.include_once_override = 0
  

  • Additionally, APC can be used in lieu of Magent Cache by adding the following to local.xml

      <global>
      	...
         		<cache>
      			<backend>apc</backend>
      			<prefix>mgt_</prefix>
      		</cache>
      	...
      </global>
    

• Install mod_proxy_fcgi & php-fpm

• Verify that Apaches "Keep Alive" directive is set in .htaccess

    <IfModule mod_headers.c>
    	Header set Connection keep-alive
    </IfModule>
  

• Verify that the memory_limit in php.ini is set to atleast 64M but no more than 2400M

• Install mod_deflate for GZIP Compression

• (OPTIONAL) Route Magento's Cache with tmpfs

    mount -t tmpfs -o size=256M,mode=0744 tmpfs /var/www/domain.com/var/cache/
    mount -t tmpfs -o size=64M,mode=0744 tmpfs /var/www/domain.com/var/session/
  

MySQL Optimization

• Set innodb_buffer_pool_size to 2-3GB

• Set query_cache_size to 64M

• Set query_cache_limit to 2M

• Example Mysql Configuration

    innodb_thread_concurrency = 2 * [numberofCPUs] + 2 
    innodb_flush_log_at_trx_commit = 2 
    thread_concurrency = [number of CPUs] * 3 
    thread_cache_size = 32 
    table_cache = 1024 
    query_cache_size = 64M 
    query_cache_limit = 2M 
    join_buffer_size = 8M 
    tmp_table_size = 256M 
    key_buffer = 32M 
    innodb_autoextend_increment=512 
    max_allowed_packet = 16M 
    max_heap_table_size = 256M 
    read_buffer_size = 2M 
    read_rnd_buffer_size = 16M 
    bulk_insert_buffer_size = 64M 
    myisam_sort_buffer_size = 128M 
    myisam_max_sort_file_size = 10G 
    myisam_max_extra_sort_file_size = 10G 
    myisam_repair_threads = 1
  

Third Party Magento Caching Tools

• Warp Full Page Caching
• Full Page Cache