Improve Magento speed and performance
Due to large amount of catalog data, heavy third party
customization, Large size images, database
sometime Magento shop owner face the speed issue.
There are lots of ways to optimize it.
1) Moving Magento to good Hosting environment (dedicated
server.).
2) Enable Gzip Compression.
3) For images and static content we can use Content Delivery
Network (CDN) for parallel transfer of static content.
4) Use Varnish caching.
5) Minify Css.
6) Minimize JavaScript.
7) Disable modules, extension which are not in use.
8) Enable Magento
Caches
9) Combine Js and Css files.
10) Try some third party extensions to improve performance.