The loading speed of a Zen Cart powered e-commerce website has always been a big issue. No matter whether it is your first online shop or existing live e-commerce store, the slow loading speed of a website is the first thing that bothers majority of visitors. The reason??? Every end user expects a responsive, user-friendly and fast loading website. It is a major contributing factor that can largely affect Google search engine ranking of your website.
In this article, we'll discuss some useful PSD to Zen Cart integration techniques that can help to increase the loading speed of your e-commerce website. Let's take a look:
In this article, we'll discuss some useful PSD to Zen Cart integration techniques that can help to increase the loading speed of your e-commerce website. Let's take a look:
- You can also improve the site loading speed by putting the Manufacturers side-box out of action. Click on Admin > Tools > Layout Boxes Controller. Now, try to find out an entry named as sideboxes/manufacturers.php and simply turn it "OFF".
- It is advisable to turn off the category counts if your web portal includes a large number of categories. Simply go to Admin > Config > My Store > Show Category Counts = false to turn off the category counts. Moreover, you can also divide your product categories into sub categories if your categories include a bunch of products. Dividing product categories into sub categories helps you improve website efficiency as well as performance.
- Go to the Admin and click on Configuration. Now, click on Attribute Settings to turn off various enabled options, including Downloads, Quantity price discount option, Price-by-attributes support, and Attribute images.
- Large and uncompressed images can adversely affect the loading speed of a website and therefore, it is highly recommended to use fully optimized and compressed images for your site. You can also use small images for thumbnails, vaguely larger (medium-sized images) for product pages and detailed high quality large-sized images for "click to enlarge."
- This trick is useful to decrease your website's parse time. Go to your individual attribute assignments and then, choose "Apply Discounts Used by Product Special/Sale: No."
- You can also take an advantage of the MySQL slow query log feature to recognize all bad performing database queries.
- To fasten the loading speed of your homepage, you can turn off the content-boxes of featured products. The reason??? Content boxes tend to create various extra queries to dig out special pricing details. Read Full Story
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