Web Site Performance

Joomla is an excellent CMS with many features and several advantages over other content management systems, and flexible enough to work for just about any website installation. However, Joomla’s flexibility comes at a price – all of the files, languages, modules, plugins, database calls, etc. can grind a website to a halt when there are too many visitors on the site at the same time. Many Joomla web sites are just too slow, but here are several things you can do to create a fast Joomla web site.

Enable GZip Compression For Smaller Web Page Sizes

May 15th Information and Tutorials \ Web Site Performance Joomla uses PHP to create the HTML pages that make up your website. These pages can be compressed using Gzip Compression. Most web servers support Gzip Compression, which can shrink your site's pages by 70% to 90%. This will result in reduced bandwidth and faster page loads for your visitors. Continue reading...

Turn Off Error Reporting to Speed Up Your Web Site and Minimize Security Risks

May 14th Information and Tutorials \ Web Site Performance Leaving Error Reporting set to anything else except NONE will slow down your website and give hackers a security hole that they can use to peer into your server settings and PHP environment. Turn it off (NONE) unless you are debugging at the moment. Then turn it off! Continue reading...

Minimize Database Queries by Turning Off Web Site Statistics

May 13th Information and Tutorials \ Web Site Performance One way to minimize the number of database queries your Joomla website performs is to turn off all website statistics. This is a quick fix, and removes queries for a part of Joomla you really don't need, speeding up your website and making faster load times. Continue reading...

Move Your Website to a Virtual or Dedicated Server

May 13th Information and Tutorials \ Web Site Performance If you have already applied the rest of these techniques and your server is still bogged down from too much traffic, you may have to purchase better hosting. Virtual servers and dedicated servers are common hosting plans that will give your web site the hardware it needs to handle high traffic server loads. Continue reading...

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