Prestashop Performance

[hobbychan]

Dears, 

 

I have a fresh install of the latest prestashop on A2 Hosting (VPS managed plan) + cloudflare plan which I didn't know how to use. 

At first the website was super fast and I was really happy. 

 

I've built the store, installed modules, worked out the theme, everything was smooth. 

Today I imported 400 customers and their passwords, tweeked a couple of files based on tutorials on the forum to make the old passwords work from my previous presta ( and it worked ) 

 

However, after doing that, the website suddenly became slow (only the landing page became slow actually). it used to be 2.3 load time and now it's 4.9. 

I have Cache Manager module installed, tried several steps from the forum by playing in Advanced > Performance settings. 

Nothing worked. 

 

Here are the results from two page load testing website:

 

https://gtmetrix.com/reports/www.hobbychan.com/xIbETSkO

 

https://tools.pingdom.com/#!/cntyzA/http://www.hobbychan.com

 

 

One of them says (Serve the following static resources from a domain that doesn't set cookies:)

 

Please bear with me as I'm a really newbie in codes and stuff .. . 

Any recommendations on what's wrong or what happened? the entire website seems fine, it's just the landing (home page), it takes a while to load compared to other pages and compared to a day earlier.

 

 

[JPresta.com]

First, go in Performance settings and enable smart cache for JS and CSS. This will reduce the number of HTTP requests and the page weight.

Enable option "defer javascript".

Then you can enable profiling and show us the result.

[hobbychan]

First, go in Performance settings and enable smart cache for JS and CSS. This will reduce the number of HTTP requests and the page weight.

Enable option "defer javascript".

Then you can enable profiling and show us the result.

 

Hello, and thank you for your reply. 

I have no idea how to (defer javascript). I did enable profiling but for some reason the results only show when I load the backoffice, no results appear in front office. Below are results from BO. 

[roband]

In your PrestaShop admin, click Advanced Parameters in the left menu, then click Performance, then set as this:

SMARTY    

    Template compilation: Recompile templates if the files have been updated

    Cache: Yes

CCC (COMBINE, COMPRESS AND CACHE)   

    Smart cache for CSS: Yes

    Smart cache for JavaScript: Yes

    Minify HTML: Yes

    Compress inline JavaScript in HTML: Yes

    Move JavaScript to the end: Yes

    Apache Optimization: Yes

 

Remember to click the "Save" button after you make these changes

 

Finally click the "Clear cache" button near the top right of the same page

 

Now run your tests again

[JPresta.com]

Hello, and thank you for your reply. 

I have no idea how to (defer javascript). I did enable profiling but for some reason the results only show when I load the backoffice, no results appear in front office. Below are results from BO. 

It should work, there is probably a problem here. To improve FO we need stats from FO.