How to reduce http requests on magento
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I have looked everywhere how reduce http requests on magento. couldn't find it, everyone talks about best practices but not actual answers how to implement this.
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PS here's an update I ran it out of California as well
http://newrelic.com/synthetics_previews/7b161fb0c45f0132e6e800505682a6e4
446 msCONNECT305 msSSL1 msSEND490 msWAIT3 msRECEIVE938 msTIME TO FIRST BYTE -
Hi Laila,
New relic is may be one of the most respected and definitely something you can trust for speed running it through synthetics I found this
http://newrelic.com/synthetics_previews/0d9e94f0c4580132e6c900505682a6e4
out of Virginia showed me a load time of almost 9 seconds with a timed first bite of almost 800 ms
8.57
SECONDS736 ms
TIME TO FIRST BYTE
http://newrelic.com/synthetics_previews/0d9e94f0c4580132e6c900505682a6e4the platform you recommended GT metrics is not bad but it still showed poor performance using yu slow
http://gtmetrix.com/reports/www.laila.uk.com/mhNKz4QT
50 Requests
1.2 MB
7.33s (onload: 7.89s)I had the wrong key and had to make this twice so sorry about any issues with the way the format is.
OK
200
43.2 kB
739 ms
• Overview Response Request
43.2 kB
SIZE
text/html
TYPE
200 OK
STATUS
GET
METHOD
213.246.108.115
SERVER IP
74
CONNECTION ID
18:12:13
REQUEST TIME
LOAD TIME184 ms
369 ms
554 ms
739 ms281 ms
CONNECT194 ms
SSL454 ms
WAIT3 ms
RECEIVE736 ms
TIME TO FIRST BYTEYou need a better hosting platform or to add a lot of extras free this will allow you to install new relic at no cost server-side and show you that this is a problem you need to accelerate your server or change it out inexpensive high quality
https://asmallorange.com/hosting/cloud/ digitalocean.com linode.com ,Here's one config
http://www.riverlinux.com/magento/you will need a content delivery network I strongly recommend Peer1.com or rackspace.com
CDN Fastly.com AWS cloud front are both inexpensive dynamic CDN’s
Varnish + FPC + Redis running a Nginx server preferably. You can do this on rack space for little money and have a fantastic configuration.
https://blog.nexcess.net/2014/11/13/redis-in-memory-caching-substantially-improves-magento-ecommerce-performance/
http://www.neevtech.com/blog/2013/05/02/making-magento-run-faster-configuring-redis-as-session-back-end-2/http://www.magentocommerce.com/magento-connect/yireo-new-relic.html
Freeways to increase your server speed Varnish when implemented correctly is amazing
http://www.magentocommerce.com/magento-connect/high-performance-cache-with-varnish-support.html add to the backend
http://www.magentocommerce.com/magento-connect/performance-cache-backends-redis.html
http://inchoo.net/magento/using-redis-cache-backend-and-session-storage-in-magento/Ways to increase your server speed but are not free
extremely high rating might be best for the money. Allows you to use varnish along with Redis the best combination right now HHVM is not yet ready for this so until then those two are the best.
http://www.magentocommerce.com/magento-connect/cache-full-page-cache.htmlhttp://www.magentocommerce.com/magento-connect/warp-full-page-caching.html
http://www.magentocommerce.com/magento-connect/cloudfront-cdn.htmlVery high rating
http://www.magentocommerce.com/magento-connect/full-page-cache-performance-booster.htmlhttp://www.magentocommerce.com/magento-connect/warp-full-page-caching.html
please implement these tools or talk to one of the hosting companies that specialize in magento
please let me know if I can be of any more help and sign up for new relic it's free.
Sincerely,
Tom
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Hi Thomas,
thanks for all that details but the tool you are using showing you incorrect details, if you look here http://gtmetrix.com/reports/www.laila.uk.com/mhNKz4QT you will see the problems we have.
Kind regards
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Turn the images into sprites there is a lot more slowing your site down then DNS and it is part of it but most of it is hosting and I did combine your JS files for you your CSS files were already combined.
These are some of the things slowing down your site and causing DNS to have to go back and resolve every time. their at the bottom. You do not have enough requests to have such a slow site let's definitely upgrade your DNS and better hosting it does not have to cost more
http://www.webpagetest.org/result/150413_MJ_3Y1/
here is the speed chart comparing the major DNS companies
http://www.solvedns.com/dns-comparison/
DynECT is my preferred. Dyn.com Keep in mind you can make a deal with NSone.net for everything you need for much less than you would imagine. Speedyrails.com resells edgecast route DNS for the price of $40 you can have 25 million queries per month way more than you need. The company that might fit perfectly is DNSmadeeasy.com they have incredible performance like the others with a base price of $29 a year so when you pay that no more payments for a year. This in addition offers you 10 million queries a month way more than you need.
cloudflare gives you free DNS that's very fast.
Look at the comparison of some of the other DNS companies and you will see that they add significant time onto your sites load time
http://www.solvedns.com/dns-comparison/draw.php?date=2015-03
http://www.webpagetest.org/result/150413_MJ_3Y1/1/performance_optimization/#first_byte_time
This is a very slow website because of the hosting platform it's on
Try top recommendation would be
https://www.firehost.com/ if cost is not issue FireHost
if it is an issue which is pretty normal.
Rackspace has created four tears of magento hosting from small to very large
http://www.rackspace.com/ecommerce-hosting/magento/
if you are not using a managed hosting platform ( I see who your hosting with it appears that you're not)
you can build your own droplet on digital ocean starting at a very low cost and very high performance
ttps://www.digitalocean.com/features/one-click-apps/magento/
other companies I would strongly recommend looking into.
http://www.peer1.com/hosting/magento-hosting
http://www.simplehelix.com/managed-hosting/magento-hosting/
http://www.zerolag.com/magento-hosting/
Common reference architectures for Magento
http://www.rackspace.com/ecommerce-hosting/magento/
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full SSD VPS you can one click install magento and have a lot more speed than what you're hosting with now
these are the files that your site is creating using a CDN like
https://www.incapsula.com/ ( will make any server PCI compliant comes with a CDN free)
http://www.rackspace.com/cloud/files
if you use cloud flare pay for the Pro version
CSS files: 1
Javascript files: 8
Image files: 25
Total requests: 34
34 requests
https://www.laila.uk.com/skin/frontend/default/theme561/js/jquery-1.10.2.min.js
https://www.laila.uk.com/skin/frontend/default/theme561/js/jquery-migrate-1.2.1.min.js
https://www.laila.uk.com/skin/frontend/default/theme561/js/superfish.js
https://www.laila.uk.com/skin/frontend/default/theme561/js/scripts.js
https://www.laila.uk.com/media/po_compressor/1/js/d6649abe186b6565f4b5b2b394d97c51.js
https://www.laila.uk.com/skin/frontend/default/theme561/js/jquery.bxslider.min.js
https://www.laila.uk.com/media/po_compressor/1/js/da26bded356cd891449ca611a002923d.js
This URL contains the information above combined except for the one hosted on magento
Input: 582.15 KB
Output: 479.32 KB
Gzip: 156.11 KB
Delta: -426.03 KB (-73.18%)Gzip
Code
I hope this helps please let me know if you have any questions am sure I gave you a lot of information but there's a lot that's going on with your site. You could do a lot better by switching to a faster host and speedier DNS with a content delivery network.
Sincerely,
Tom
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I responded to your other question the best way to implement these practices is to either show us your domain and what is being requested every time someone comes to your site or most sites do not have their .js & .css files combined
the easiest way to implement this right now is to take your files and put them into a tool like this to find out which files need to be combined
http://www.feedthebot.com/pagespeed/ or http://www.feedthebot.com/tools/requests/
once you have figured out the files that you want to combine for CSS you can use this tool
CSS only below
http://www.feedthebot.com/tools/css/
please send me your domain so I can do this for you if you like.
All the best,
Thomas
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