Posts Tagged ‘Magento Speed’
Lightspeed & SpeedBooster Update
Tuesday, August 24th, 2010Great news! After a good round of testing, Lightspeed and SpeedBooster are now updated with a minor fix to reliability and an upgrade to include multiple-currency support.
Now even if the same page has multiple currencies, when you change session-set magento currency to another besides the default, Lightspeed and SpeedBooster re-cache the new currency on that page as if it were new.
If you already purchased Lightspeed or SpeedBooster, upgrading is free-of-charge. These newest versions can be downloaded from the “Account” section of store.delorumcommerce.com. Just click on the Download tab of the Lightspeed or SpeedBooster module. After you’ve downloaded the new version (2.9.2 – Lightspeed or 2.3 – SpeedBooster), update your installation with a single command from the terminal: ./pear upgrade /path/to/downloaded/PackageName.tar.gz
This multi-currency support is the manifestation of a newer functionality we’re considering (but haven’t implemented yet): session-aware caching. The idea is that when a session variable is set (like language, currency, or even a custom variable you choose) even if a URL remains the same, lightspeed would cache an entirely new page. This could open up new doors for developers and new possibilities for customized content based on certain session variables. The only question is: Would you use this on your site?
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What’s going on?
First, understand from a high-level that Lightspeed caches entire pages. It’s like taking a picture of a group at a family reunion. Instead of having to get the family back together every time you want to show that particular page (or see that group of people), you just bring up the photo you took. With Lightspeed, instead of loading PHP, running through Magento, and making DB calls to generate a page, Apache simply returns the static HTML generated for that page when it was first cached (Or that picture was taken). This means much faster page loads and much less work for Apache/PHP (or whatever web server setup you use).
For typical Magento installations, a small portion of your traffic requires you to change something (like adding cousin Larry to the picture), which can require getting the whole gang back together (PHP/Magento/MySQL). In the case of Magento, this happens for a small number of your users when a user logs in, adds something to their cart, starts checking out, or you’re in the admin panel, which renders new HTML for every single page load. With Lightspeed, a fully re-rendered page is required only occasionally for your customers. If your admin is “too slow”, you probably have problems that a hardware upgrade could address.
Lightspeed Magento Module improves user experience and aids SEO.
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In April Google announced that they are officially considering page load times as part of their algorithm. Google decided that this is important because users spend less time on slow sites, and quick page load times make happier users. From an SEO standpoint load times don’t carry the weight of relevant content or incoming links, but in competitive keywords, load times can give you an edge on the competition. According to Google any page load slower than 1.5 seconds is slow.
Google Page Load Time Graph