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Speed Up OpenCart Store

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Hi guys, is there any way to speed up my opencart store (1.5.3.1) without using those cache modules? I have a dedicated server with fairly good specs (16 GB RAM, 2.93 GHz), but my site is still pretty slow. I have just about 1,000 products with not that many categories, and my images are all around 200-500 kbs at most. If anyone has any suggestions, feel free to respond so others can know as well! Thank you in advance :)

 brotsky
August 11, 2012 at 12:42 pm #12341

you can analyst your website speed here and see what is the major problem causing site slow
https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights

I share what I done to increase speed:

1) use photoshop change my pic to small file size at “save for web and devices” , u could use image processor script at photoshop to do batch convert, but I advice you do backup for all your original picture before u convert.

2) add this at your .htaccess, if u couldn’t found this at public html, please set view hidden files at file manager inside cpanel.


# 1 YEAR
<FilesMatch "\.(ico|pdf|flv)$">
Header set Cache-Control "max-age=29030400, public"
</FilesMatch>
# 1 WEEK
<FilesMatch "\.(jpg|jpeg|png|gif|swf)$">
Header set Cache-Control "max-age=604800, public"
</FilesMatch>
# 2 DAYS
<FilesMatch "\.(xml|txt|css|js)$">
Header set Cache-Control "max-age=172800, proxy-revalidate"
</FilesMatch>
# 1 MIN
<FilesMatch "\.(html|htm|php)$">
Header set Cache-Control "max-age=60, private, proxy-revalidate"
</FilesMatch>

  • This reply was modified 4269 days ago by  manmancai.
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 manmancai
August 11, 2012 at 4:08 pm #12346

3) change image domain, add one sub domain, example image.yoursite.com
then u go to edit config.php at public html and also config.php at admin folder.
depend on your site using http or https, but u can change both to below example domain.

define('HTTP_IMAGE', 'http://image.yoursite.com/');

define('HTTPS_IMAGE', 'http://image.yoursite.com/');

4) compress your site, go to opencart admin page, system>setting>server>Output Compression Level: (I use 4, you can try other number to see what is the different)

5) go to hosting cpanel > softwares & services > Optimize Website > select Content compression: Enabled for all content

you are using dedicated server, I don’t know method that I shared will help or not, but I hope this can help other opencart user website move faster little bit :)
if there is other trick to increase site performance, please share at here also.

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 manmancai
August 11, 2012 at 4:18 pm #12349

Thank you @manmancai!
 brotsky
August 11, 2012 at 10:52 pm #12358

@brotsky

Can we have a look at your website?

Thanks,
ThemeBurn team
 TB Support
August 15, 2012 at 3:37 pm #12513
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