Hello,
We are getting quite concerned about the speed of our website. It was never quick but after activating filters, it has gotten worse. I have read various posts on the forum (like [url=“Optimizing Cs-Cart For Better Performance - Issues & Troubleshooting - CS-Cart Community Forums”]Optimizing Cs-Cart For Better Performance - Issues & Troubleshooting - CS-Cart Community Forums) but would love to hear what our top action points should be, based on your experience. We ran GTMetrix and it gave us these top 5 priorities, but are they the best starting points to improve the speed of a website running CSC?
[list]
[]Leverage browser caching (our current rating 0% vs GTMetrix average of 60%)
[]Defer parsing of javascript (our current rating 1% vs … 60%)
[]Serve resources from a consistent URL (our current rating 9% vs avg 95%)
[]Optimize images (69% vs avg 77%
[]Prefer asynchronous resources (70% vs avg 96%
[/list]
Thank you in advance for any tips.
We use version 4.1.3 with 3rd party theme Buyshop, hosted on Siteground.
Regards,
Olof
P.S. see below some data, based on GTMetrix report we ran on our Products main page
[url=“http://artitec.com/en/products.html”]http://artitec.com/en/products.html[/url]:[list]
[]Page speed rating: C (71%)
[]YSlow rating: C (75%)
[]Page load time: 11,34 seconds
[]Total page size: 3.66 Mb
[]Total number of requests: 275
[/list]
[quote name='Olof' timestamp='1427432180' post='209223']
Hello,
We are getting quite concerned about the speed of our website. It was never quick but after activating filters, it has gotten worse. I have read various posts on the forum (like http://forum.cs-cart…er%20categories) but would love to hear what our top action points should be, based on your experience. We ran GTMetrix and it gave us these top 5 priorities, but are they the best starting points to improve the speed of a website running CSC?[list]
[]Leverage browser caching (our current rating 0% vs GTMetrix average of 60%)
[]Defer parsing of javascript (our current rating 1% vs … 60%)
[]Serve resources from a consistent URL (our current rating 9% vs avg 95%)
[]Optimize images (69% vs avg 77%
[]Prefer asynchronous resources (70% vs avg 96%
[/list]
Thank you in advance for any tips.
We use version 4.1.3 with 3rd party theme Buyshop, hosted on Siteground.
Regards,
Olof
P.S. see below some data, based on GTMetrix report we ran on our Products main page
[url=“http://artitec.com/en/products.html”]http://artitec.com/en/products.html[/url]:[list]
[]Page speed rating: C (71%)
[]YSlow rating: C (75%)
[]Page load time: 11,34 seconds
[]Total page size: 3.66 Mb
[]Total number of requests: 275
[/list]
[/quote]
Olof,
First thing I would recommend you is to install 4.3.1 Beta 4 on this server, make store import (transfer your current) and test it.
Most probably 4.3.1 will solve most of the problems.
[quote name='imac' timestamp='1427437952' post='209224']
Olof,
First thing I would recommend you is to install 4.3.1 Beta 4 on this server, make store import (transfer your current) and test it.
Most probably 4.3.1 will solve most of the problems.
[/quote]
Ilya,
Thanks for your quick reply. What you are suggesting, while understandable, is quite a big thing for us. We had quite a bit of custom work done, plus custom work on the theme, lots of add-ons, etc…
We want to move to 4.3.1 anyways, but since we do not know its final release date, we would prefer to implement some other speed tips for now.
[quote name='Olof' timestamp='1427451466' post='209253']
Ilya,
Thanks for your quick reply. What you are suggesting, while understandable, is quite a big thing for us. We had quite a bit of custom work done, plus custom work on the theme, lots of add-ons, etc…
We want to move to 4.3.1 anyways, but since we do not know its final release date, we would prefer to implement some other speed tips for now.
[/quote]
Hello Olof,
I am using 4.2.3 and 4.2.4. Currently my results are a better than yours. We only thing we did on our sites was to amend the .htacces file with this code
```php
DirectoryIndex index.html index.php
Header append Vary: Accept-Encoding
Header set X-Content-Type-Options “nosniff”
order allow,deny
deny from all
SetEnv TZ Europe/Amsterdam
FileETag None
Header set Access-Control-Allow-Origin ""
Header unset ETag
ExpiresActive on
ExpiresDefault “access plus 1 month”
#CSS
ExpiresByType text/css “access plus 1 year”
#Data interchange
ExpiresByType application/json “access plus 0 seconds”
ExpiresByType application/ld+json “access plus 0 seconds”
ExpiresByType application/vnd.geo+json “access plus 0 seconds”
ExpiresByType application/xml “access plus 0 seconds”
ExpiresByType text/xml “access plus 0 seconds”
#Favicon (cannot be renamed!) and cursor images
ExpiresByType image/x-icon “access plus 1 year”
#HTML components (HTCs)
ExpiresByType text/x-component “access plus 1 month”
#HTML
ExpiresByType text/html “access plus 1 month”
#JavaScript
ExpiresByType application/javascript “access plus 1 year”
#Manifest files
ExpiresByType application/manifest+json “access plus 1 year”
ExpiresByType application/x-web-app-manifest+json “access plus 0 seconds”
ExpiresByType text/cache-manifest “access plus 0 seconds”
#Media
ExpiresByType audio/ogg “access plus 1 month”
ExpiresByType image/gif “access plus 1 month”
ExpiresByType image/jpeg “access plus 1 month”
ExpiresByType image/png “access plus 1 month”
ExpiresByType video/mp4 “access plus 1 month”
ExpiresByType video/ogg “access plus 1 month”
ExpiresByType video/webm “access plus 1 month”
#Web feeds
ExpiresByType application/atom+xml “access plus 1 hour”
ExpiresByType application/rss+xml “access plus 1 hour”
#Web fonts
ExpiresByType application/font-woff “access plus 1 month”
ExpiresByType application/font-woff2 “access plus 1 month”
ExpiresByType application/vnd.ms-fontobject “access plus 1 month”
ExpiresByType application/x-font-ttf “access plus 1 month”
ExpiresByType font/opentype “access plus 1 month”
ExpiresByType image/svg+xml “access plus 1 month”
#CSS w/gzip
ExpiresDefault “access plus 1 year”
ForceType text/css
Header set Content-Encoding: gzip
Header set Cache-control: private
#JavaScript w/gzip
ExpiresDefault “access plus 1 year”
ExpiresByType application/javascript “access plus 1 year”
ForceType text/javascript
Header set Content-Encoding: gzip
Header set Cache-control: private
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/text text/html text/plain text/xml
RewriteEngine on
Options -MultiViews
#Redirects go here
#RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} .
#RewriteRule ^.$ http://www.domainname.com/NEW_SEO_URL.html [L,R=301]
AddEncoding gzip .gz
RewriteRule . - [E=HTTP_AUTHORIZATION:%{HTTP:Authorization}]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} .(js|css)$
RewriteCond %{HTTP:Accept-encoding} gzip
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.gz -f
RewriteRule ^(.)$ $1.gz [QSA,L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^api/(.)$ [or]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ./api/(.)$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule .api/(.)$ api.php?_d=$1&ajax_custom=1 [L,QSA]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} .(png|gif|ico|swf|jpe?g|js|css|ttf|svg|eot|woff|yml|xml)$ [or]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} store_closed.html$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.?)/(.)$ $2 [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . index.php [L,QSA]
Compress HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Text, XML and fonts
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/javascript
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/rss+xml
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/vnd.ms-fontobject
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-font
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-font-opentype
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-font-otf
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-font-truetype
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-font-ttf
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-javascript
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/xhtml+xml
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/xml
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE font/opentype
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE font/otf
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE font/ttf
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE image/svg+xml
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE image/x-icon
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/css
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/javascript
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/plain
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/xml
Remove browser bugs (only needed for really old browsers)
BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4 gzip-only-text/html
BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4.0[678] no-gzip
BrowserMatch \bMSIE !no-gzip !gzip-only-text/html
Header append Vary User-Agent
ExpiresActive on
ExpiresDefault “access plus 2 days”
```
This improved our ranking quite bit but like you we are not there yet.
We are also planning our move to 4.3.1 in the next 6 months but for now we could do a lot better if we could delay the load of the javascripts when our page loads.
Hi Anthony,
Thanks for sharing that code! We will look into it. At the moment, we are having a discussion whether we should keep trying to tweak our current 4.1.3 version, or move over to version 4.3.2 (bug release of 4.3.1) with its better speed but also requires us to look at our custom work stuff…
Thanks again
Olof
[quote name='Olof' timestamp='1433968872' post='218307']
Hi Anthony,
Thanks for sharing that code! We will look into it. At the moment, we are having a discussion whether we should keep trying to tweak our current 4.1.3 version, or move over to version 4.3.2 (bug release of 4.3.1) with its better speed but also requires us to look at our custom work stuff…
Thanks again
Olof
[/quote]
Hi Olof
I fully understand, we are also questioning if we should not go from 4.2.4 and 4.2.3 to 4.3.2
We have not done serious custom work besides having modified our third party theme (Buyshop) to fit our stores.
Slight update on my part - I just messed up my Apache installation and now in the process of moving to another server.
Not a fun thing to do.
Greetings
Anthony
Hi Anthony,
We also have Buyshop w/modifications. plus some other stuff.
Thanks and good luck with server move
Olof