The best way to optimize Magento’s performance is to use its Compilation function. It has proven to be stable and reliable even though it is still in development. The performance increase is obvious. You can enable it from your Magento admin panel. There from the top menu choose System > Tools > Compilation. If you [...]

Find the following lines in your Magento .htaccess file Remove the comments as I have below (Comments are started on a line with a pound ( # ) sign ############################################ ## enable apache served files compression ## http://developer.yahoo.com/performance/rules.html#gzip # Insert filter SetOutputFilter DEFLATE # Netscape 4.x has some problems… BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4 gzip-only-text/html # Netscape 4.06-4.08 [...]

You should  remove index.php from the URL to maximize your SEO potential. Here is how you do it! From Magento’s admin go to System > Configuration > Web and change “Use Web Server Rewrites” to Yes Make sure both Base URLs for secure and unsecure don’t contain index.php It is that simple!  If you should [...]

Once development is done you reach that all important milestone.. you switch caching on. Yeah, it’s a bit of an anticlimax really. Caching only works when the cache is primed. It can take time for your visitors to reach every nook and cranny of your site, so why not automate it? Login to your server [...]

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Google Base is a database that is provided by Google which allows companies or individuals to upload products and make them searchable on the Google search engine so that users can find them easily. A great solution to use this invaluable resource is Google Base. You load your products onto a Google’s database and add [...]