Just interested to hear if others are finding v1 very slow compared to other scripts they run on the same servers.

yes, prestashop v1 is very slow

JMA

Its all good here!

Some people just aren’t happy.

Front End very slow! sometime i have timeout from server!

I feel the Admin is very slow when adding/editing products & really needs improving
the front end is super-fast for me

I personally think it makes a huge difference changing the value below
$smarty->force_compile = false;

However the search results are very slow, probably down to many DB queries
I will continue to assist the team with prestashop for the foreseeable future

front end is fast for me. the backend, in terms of page-loading-speed is fast as well. navigation is terrible though. for example, after saving a product info, i cant directly go back to the products in the same category. i have to go back to the catalog, and then click the category i want to edit, and then go to the next product. things like these make managing the backend tediously painful… but like i said, page-loading-speed is fine!

Haagendazs, try making new “Quick Accesses.” It’s under tools. You make a link, and it appears in that dropdown menu with the lightning bolt. I made links to all of my categories. I go to the one I want, and scroll down until I find the Add New button.

rsvp, thanks for that tip! i didnt realize u could do that. that is definitely helpful

Front end is slow, not good but acceptable providing it gets fixed in a future release
Back Offfice has too many annoying ajax jumps. There’s enough real estate to get rid of some ajax nervous twitches
I’m not fully committing to PS until I see some improvements in performance

amwdesign - 07 September 2008 08:03 PM

I personally think it makes a huge difference changing the value below $smarty->force_compile = false;

Much faster now….thank you

Further to my research on trying to speed up prestrashop I’ve written another smarty plugin. The stats seem to say it’s worth while however I’m still working on it. All the javascript files in the header halt the shop from loading until they have been processed. if anyone has done the maths there are alow of files to download and alot of connections to the server required for this.

Solution: I have written a smarty plugin that creates a single js or css file with the pramas you send. it creates a cached file with etags for quicker furture browseing.

Either an array, list or single js or css file can be used.

Usage is as follows:

{cache js=js/tools.js,js/jquery/jquery.pack.js,js/jquery/jquery.easing.1.3.js,themes/intellishop/js/chrome.js}

{if isset($js_files)} {cache js=$js_files} {/if}

I’ll be creating a ps mod website oneday for anyone wishing to donate towards my time developnig such improvements. Until than, just PM and I’ll see what I can do to help wtith your shop.

I wrote about how slow the front end was in this post

However the developers have promised this will be fixed in version 1.1. Be assured that when it is out I will again be doing some profiling to identify any slow spots and hopefully speed them up.

Several issues fixed, but don’t expect a revolution.
PrestaShop’s front end power is its weakness: the modules.
The front end in itself do not waste any resources, but each module requires its own data so the overall performance decreases greatly.

We’re looking for some kind of internal global cache in which modules could get everything, but it won’t be for the next release.

Hi All

I find prestashop excellent but the front office end is unacceptably slow. I have cut out modules, talked to my (normally fast) hosters, and still I get a 15 -20 sec response on the front end:

1. I have serached for $smarty to change it to $smarty->force_compile = false; but cannot find it… my ignorance I guess. all assistance welcome!!

2. if there is anyone here who has a clue how to speed this up I would welcome the help very much.

3. We are live and getting complaints so a speedy response would be great!

Kind Regards

Malcolm

Hi Malcolm

Not sure if this will help you, but we had similar speed problem and after running a few checks we made some small changes and we did see an improvement in speed on our sites.

Initially we checked our page loading time on http://www.websiteoptimization.com/services/analyze/

Then we used http://www.cleancss.com/index.php to check and clean up our css files.

Hope this helps

Yes there are also many if in modules that we can remove “if” we are sure of our work:
check if image exists for example,

But, I can’t find prestashop slow,
it’s depends also from the server,
a new products with a new server.

I made a lot of test with 100 client connected working together and can’t find charge on server (6% of 1 processor maximum).
ex: http://www.filanda.it/shop/
I also tried with another shop in locally with 22000 products, and also sql search is fine.