Simetria Posted October 19, 2018 Share Posted October 19, 2018 (edited) Why is my site running soooo slow?!? I have a custom theme on the site, but even with the default Prestashop theme it's so slow to load in every page – including basic pages such as about page. I know that I can benefit from adding a good caching module, but would site really be this slow even without the module? Simulating on pingdom.com takes 19 seconds to load the index page. 19 seconds!! images are not that large, and even if I disable the modules that use images, it does not help any. My server specs are : RAM: 19GB PROCESSES 1,500/min MEMORY: 768MB PHP VERSION: 7.1 See the attached image from pingdom – the long yellow wait time is for the index.php file In the backend I'm really confused how to setup the performance page... I read some blogs saying that Smarty caching is bad for performance, some say it is good. See the other image of the setup in my performance page. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. Edited October 19, 2018 by Simetria (see edit history) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PrestaHeroes USA Posted October 19, 2018 Share Posted October 19, 2018 smarty cache is not enabled, that is big impact https://www.screencast.com/t/NbAI9h1B apache optimization should be set to yes....this has to do mostly with mod_expires https://www.screencast.com/t/o6Muy4BIJs re cache modules, we have a lot of PS experience and one of the biggest issues clients coming in the door have are 'directly' related to vodoo cache modules...they break the cart to the point you don't even know it. WE DO NOT RECOMMEND CACHE MODULES PERIOD. enable per above and the review your performance reports. happy optimizing, el For professional optimization services click here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simetria Posted October 19, 2018 Author Share Posted October 19, 2018 Thank you El Patron!! Quick question what should I choose for the other options inside SMARTY once "Cache" is turned on? -S Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PrestaHeroes USA Posted October 19, 2018 Share Posted October 19, 2018 1 minute ago, Simetria said: Thank you El Patron!! Quick question what should I choose for the other options inside SMARTY once "Cache" is turned on? -S those settings are fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simetria Posted October 19, 2018 Author Share Posted October 19, 2018 Unfortunately not much difference El Patron. Again the index page took ~18 seconds to load. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PrestaHeroes USA Posted October 19, 2018 Share Posted October 19, 2018 1 minute ago, Simetria said: Unfortunately not much difference El Patron. Again the index page took ~18 seconds to load. That's the best advices I can give without access and running reports. Performance is an science and requires shop manager to have a lot of different knowledges. I prefer gtmetrix and also page speed is measured 'above the fold', not so much how fast your footere loaded. happy optimizing, el Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simetria Posted October 24, 2018 Author Share Posted October 24, 2018 El Patron, How can i reach you privately? Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PrestaHeroes USA Posted October 24, 2018 Share Posted October 24, 2018 50 minutes ago, Simetria said: El Patron, How can i reach you privately? Thanks. Hi, thanks for reaching out. You can use the contact me on our shop here. also you can message me via forum by clicking on my avatar. you can also review our performance service here: https://www.prestaheroes.com/en-us/prestashop-development-services/optimization/google-page-speed-optimization We are the only PS agency to run PrestaShop as our front end so we appreciate how difficult it can be at times lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simetria Posted October 24, 2018 Author Share Posted October 24, 2018 El Patron, just sent you an email via your website contact page. Looking forward to chatting with you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
creasolstore Posted January 7, 2020 Share Posted January 7, 2020 Hi Simetria, I have the same long time page generation problem, on PrestaShop 1.7.6 : maybe you can complete this forum thread specifying what you've done to solve the problem, and mark the thread as SOLVED ! Thank you in advance. Paolo 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
creasolstore Posted January 21, 2020 Share Posted January 21, 2020 On 1/7/2020 at 12:41 PM, creasolstore said: Hi Simetria, I have the same long time page generation problem, on PrestaShop 1.7.6 : maybe you can complete this forum thread specifying what you've done to solve the problem, and mark the thread as SOLVED ! Thank you in advance. Paolo In my case, prestashop was really slow because the website was cracked in just few hours. So, I've found that it's really important to set owner != www-data (or other webserver user), set group=www-data and enable write permission only for few directories and files that really need to be written by the web server. For this purpose I made a silly script that can be called in this way: prestashop_permissions.sh normal ### restrict write permissions prestashop_permissions.sh upgrade ### set write permissions to permit upgrade prestahopPermissions.sh 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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