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Speed up Magento with these simple admin settings
When you’re ready to go live with your Magento store, remember to setup your admin for maximum performance! These are the settings that will significantly speed up your Magento installation:
1. Enable cache
Most users are well aware of this one 
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Just navigate to System > Cache Management and enable all cache types.
Magento Cache Management
2. Re-index data
Regularly indexing Magento data will also have some impact on performance.
Under System > Index Management select all indexes and hit the “Reindex Data” submit button.
Magento Index Management
3. Enable JavaScript file merging
Combining all JavaScript files into one will greatly reduce the number of HTTP requests your Magento site makes to the server and will have a nice impact on speed.
Navigate to System > Configuration > Developer > JavaScript Settings and select “Yes” under “Merge JavaScript Files”.
Combine All JavaScript Files
4. Combine CSS files
Like with JavaScript files, combining all CSS files into one will reduce load time and increase speed. Magento also has an admin setting for that but we don’t recommend turning it – it is much better to use Ultimento’s Magento themes which are truly optimized for speed. In Ultimento there is only 1 combined CSS file that is also compressed and minified.
If you’re not running Ultimento, you can combine all CSS files into one via the Magento admin:
Go to System > Configuration > Developer > CSS settings and select “Yes” for “Merge CSS Files”.
Combine All CSS Files
5. Turn off the logs
On a production Magento installation make sure all logs are turned off!
The settings are under System > Configuration > Developer > Log Settings.
Magento Log
6. Enable the compilation
Magento’s compilation is a great tool to speed up a production installation.
Go to System > Tools > Compilation and hit “Run Compilation Process”.
Magento Compilation
Of course there’s many other things besides these admin settings you can do to speed up your Magento store! The most important is to:
- Use a Magento theme that is truly optimized for speed
- Host your store on a Magento optimized server
- Don’t load your Magento installation with too many extensions
But the admin configuration is so commonly overlooked yet so easy to apply!
