Speed up Your Joomla Site for Ultimate Performance
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This document provides tips for optimizing a Joomla site for speed. It recommends keeping Joomla updated, choosing extensions wisely, simplifying templates, enabling compression, caching plugins and .htaccess rules. Specific extensions like JCH Optimize are suggested for combining and minifying CSS/JS and images. Server-level optimizations include using a CDN, opcode caching, moving PHP to RAM, and reverse proxy caching. Testing speed with tools like Google PageSpeed Insights is advised. Application optimizations alone can improve page load times from over 5 seconds to 3 seconds, while full server optimizations achieve over 1 second load times.
Speed up Your Joomla Site for Ultimate Performance
- 1. HOW TO SPEED UP YOUR JOOMLA SITE? Tenko Nikolov CEO, SiteGround
- 2. 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 &
- 3. WHY BOTHER DOING IT? Site speed affects your Google Rankings! Keep readers/customers happy & paying Be able to handle more visitors
- 4. Faster Joomla! = Optimizations KEEP CALM IT’S NOT ROCKET SCIENCE
- 6. GENERAL GUIDELINES Keep your Joomla! updated Choose extensions wisely Deactivate unused extensions, upgrade used Simplify your templates as much as possible
- 7. 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
- 9. Enable Compression Natively supported by Joomla! – no extensions needed Requires mod_gzip/deflate to be enabled on the server Site Global Configuration Server
- 10. Enable Joomla! Cache Enable the “System – Cache” plugin
- 11. Recommended Cache Settings Site Global Configuration System Cache Settings
- 12. 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
- 13. Some .htaccess Magic The code: FileETag MTime Size AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html text/css application/javascript ExpiresActive On ExpiresDefault "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”
- 14. More Optimizations: Images, CSS & JS Resize images – never upload 2560x1600 pictures Smush your images Minify and combine CSS and JS files Use image sprites
- 15. Sounds Nice, How Do I Begin? Use smush.it Photoshop/Fireworks Joomla! Extensions
- 16. 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
- 17. JCH Optimize Enable the “System – JCH Optimize” plugin
- 19. 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 *
- 20. Check How’s Your Website Doing Google Page Speed Insights - http://goo.gl/zPkxx YSlow - http://goo.gl/qIios GTmetrix - http://gtmetrix.com/
- 21. Some Results – Default Joomla! No Optimizatio ns Cache/ Compressi on .htacce ss 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%)
- 24. 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
- 25. 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
- 26. Opcode/Object Caching FastCGI + APC PHP extension Memcached and PHP/MySQL eAccelerator
- 27. Joomla Interaction with Your Database First request goes to the database server
- 28. Object Caching First request goes to the database server Objects are also stored in Memcached
- 29. Object Caching All consecutive requests are forwarded to the Memcached server
- 31. PHP Opcode Caching Opcode Execution
- 36. Our Own Solution: The SUPERCACHER Custom PHP/MySQL configuration Memcached/PHP APC Joomla! friendly reverse proxy setup
- 37. Final Results: Joomla + VirtueMart No Optimizatio ns Application Level Optimizations Server Level Optimization s 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%)
- 38. Some Key Takes Speed optimization is a process – do it regularly Always test! Choose a well optimized host
- 39. QUESTION S TIME
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- 42. THANK YOU! Tenko Nikolov [email protected] @tnikolov