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HOW TO SPEED UP YOUR JOOMLA SITE? Tenko Nikolov CEO, SiteGround
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Presented at JoomlaDay Sydney 2013 by Tenko Nikolov , CEO, SiteGround.
Transcript of Speed up Your Joomla Site for Ultimate Performance
HOW TO SPEED UP YOUR JOOMLA SITE?
Tenko NikolovCEO, SiteGround
Before We Begin – Who’s That Guy Tenko?
17+ Years IT Experience
8+ Years CEO of SiteGround
7+ years of Joomla! Experience
Love travelling the world
Addicted to fast things &
Photography
Site speed affects your Google Rankings!
Keep readers/customers happy & paying
Be able to handle more visitors
Go green and save $$$ from servers
WHY BOTHER DOING IT?
Faster Joomla! = Optimizations
KEEPCALM
IT’S NOT
ROCKET SCIENCE
Keep your Joomla! updated
Choose extensions wisely
Deactivate unused extensions, upgrade
used
Simplify your templates as much as
possible
GENERAL GUIDELINES
Simple Front Page Is Better
Fancy stuff – only if you really need it
Remove unnecessary large images
Use fewer internal/external links – add
sitemap
Avoid loading content from remote servers
APPLICATION LEVEL OPTIMIZATIONS
Enable Compression
Natively supported by Joomla! – no extensions needed
Requires mod_gzip/deflate to be enabled on the server
Site
Global Configuration
Server
Enable Joomla! Cache
Enable the “System – Cache” plugin
Recommended Cache Settings
Site
Global Configuration
System
Cache Settings
Some .htaccess Magic
Get the code:http://goo.gl/ze09B
How it works:- Etag – Tells browsers that an image/unit does not need to be reloaded
- Expires Headers – Set different expiration dates for various file types
- AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE – minifies the compiled HTML source
code
Some .htaccess Magic
The code:
FileETag MTime Size AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html text/css application/javascriptExpiresActive OnExpiresDefault "now plus 1 hour" ExpiresByType text/css "now plus 1 week“ExpiresByType application/javascript "now plus 1 week" ExpiresByType application/x-javascript "now plus 1 week”
More Optimizations: Images, CSS & JS
Resize images – never upload 2560x1600
pictures
Smush your images
Minify and combine CSS and JS files
Use image sprites
Some Highly Rated Extensions JCH Optimize – Combines JS and CSS,
Combines images in sprites, Minify and Compress
Jbetolo – same as above but + CDN support
JotCache – improves the Joomla! built in Core Cache
Cache Cleaner – easily clean the cache from the Joomla! admin panel
JCH Optimize
Enable the “System – JCH Optimize” plugin
JCH Optimize Settings
Google mod_pagespeed
An open-source Apache module - compress, combine and cache
Needs to be installed/configured by a System Administrator
Available on SiteGround servers *
Check How’s Your Website Doing
Google Page Speed Insights - http://
goo.gl/zPkxx
YSlow - http://goo.gl/qIios
GTmetrix - http://gtmetrix.com/
Some Results – Default Joomla!
No Optimizati
ons
Cache/ Compres
sion
.htaccess
rules
JCH
Page Load Time 1.61s 1.49s 1.32s 1.02s
Total Page Size 563KB 162KB 162KB 151KB
Number of Requests
35 35 35 19
Page Speed Grade
F (41%) B (65%) B (87%)
A (91%)
YSlow Grade C (70%) B (66%) B (86%)
A (92%)
SERVER LEVEL OPTIMIZATIONS
Use CDN
YOUR VISITORSLOCATION MATTERS!
CDN Features
CDN will make your website faster
CDN will help avoid unneeded I/O on your hard drives
CDN will appeal to both Google and your visitors
Software Tweaks
Use fast and secure PHP like FastCGI Move PHP binaries to RAM Move TMP to RAM Move MySQL to a separate hard drive:
RAID & SSD Enable MySQL query cache Use TMPFS for MySQL’s tmpdir
Opcode/Object Caching
FastCGI + APC PHP extension
Memcached and PHP/MySQL
eAccelerator
Joomla Interaction with Your Database
First request goes to the database server
Object Caching
First request goes to the database server
Objects are also stored in Memcached
Object Caching
All consecutive requests are forwarded to the Memcached server
How PHP works
Scanning
Lexing
Parsing
Compilation
Opcode
Execution
Opcode Execution
PHP Opcode Caching
Reverse Proxy Servers
Reverse Proxy Servers
Reverse Proxy Servers
Reverse Proxy Servers
Custom PHP/MySQL configuration
Memcached/PHP APC
Joomla! friendly reverse proxy
setup
Our Own Solution: The SUPERCACHER
Final Results: Joomla + VirtueMart
No Optimizati
ons
Application Level
Optimizations
Server Level
Optimizations
Page Load Time 5.22s 3.49s 1.09s
Total Page Size 1.89MB 0.67MB 0.67MB
Number of Requests
76 28 28
Page Speed Grade
F (41%) B (85%) A (92%)
YSlow Grade C (70%) B (84%) A (94%)
Some Key Takes
Speed optimization is a process – do it
regularly
Always test!
Choose a well optimized host
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