Introduction
In a sport competition, every second, millisecond, decide whether a player wins a competition or not. Every small aspect that improves the performance is a step in the right direction to win a competition. For websites, this is the same. The faster a website is, the better it is. A fast website gives a better user experience and it is better for SEO. So, the faster, the better.
Magento is a framework that calls a lot of operations when loading a page. All these operations take some time. This means that Magento is not one of the best performing systems in the world, especially when you are working with a lot of products, attributes, multiple store views, and more.
However, with a good setup and the right tools, you can improve the performance of your shop so that it will perform very fast.
The performance of a website has a lot of impact on your visitors. Here are some facts about the performance of a website:
When your site is 100 milliseconds slower, you lose 1% of the total sales...