How to Optimize PrestaShop Online Store

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How to Optimize PrestaShop Online Store

After you understand about how to add products, adjust the appearance to change the store theme, it’s time for you to understand how to optimize the performance of your online store. Poor or slow online store performance can lead to reduced sales turnover. That should never happen when you are building an online business. You can do your optimization so that your store becomes fast and light when accessed. Here are some ways to optimize your PrestaShop online store:

1. Smarty 

Smarty is one of the features in PrestaShop that functions to find errors on your Prestashop website.

Follow these steps to enable it:

First, go to the PrestaShop admin page. In the Advanced Parameters feature you will find the Performance menu. Click performance then you will see a display like below:

How to configure Smarty:

• Template Compilation: Select the option “never recompile template files” to speed up your online store.

• Cache: Select “yes” to enable cache. The cache serves to reduce the delay after you finish customizing the theme.

• Clear Cache: Select “clear cache every time something has been modified” to clear cache every time you do anything modified. Like changing the shop display.

Once the settings are complete, click save to save the changes.

2. CCC (Compress, Combine, Cache)

If you use CCC to optimize your PrestaShop, it is possible that the data transferred from the server will be compressed, combined, cached first.

Activate CCC so that your online store can be accessed more quickly. Follow these steps to enable it:

First, go to the PrestaShop admin page. In the Advanced parameters feature you will find the Performance menu. Click performance then scroll down until you will find a display like this:

Select the yes option to enable the smart cache for CSS and smart cache for JavaScript features which are not enabled by default.

3. Caching 

PrestaShop provides system cache options such as MemCache, XCache, or file system (default) to solve the problem of large caches distributed to memory.

To activate this system you must first install the extension on your server. Alternatively, you can enable XCache or File System as Prestashop’s default system cache where it doesn’t require any server-side extension activation. How to activate it:

First go to your PrestaShop admin page, then access the Advanced Parameters menu, click Performance then scroll down until you will find a display like this:

Select the Yes option to enable the User Cache feature which is not enabled by default and you can choose the cache system you want. You can manually install the system cache.