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Speed up your Magento using cache to the full. Decrease pages loading time and improve user experience, which leads to a better conversion rate and higher search rankings.
When you want to make money, you need to provide customers with ease and comfort when navigating your website. A slight delay in product page load, during search operation or while browsing your catalog may result in a lost customer. Forever.
Magento by itself has a caching mechanism, but it does not cache pages. We’ve run a test to check how the FPC affects page serving time. You'll find the test results below.
When you don’t have FPC extension installed, each time a visitor comes to any page of your website, Magento first reads a bunch of configuration files to check which blocks need to be displayed on the page. After that Magento takes each block and starts “generating” it and placing on the page. This all takes much time.
With the Full Page Cache extension, when a visitor comes to any page of your website, the extension already has a ready page to serve. The page had been prepared and saved into cache with the very first visit, so Magento did all the rendering work only once as opposed to each time someone opens the page.
Thus, it saves up to 1-3 seconds on each page request. Respect your customers’ time and they will literally pay you back.
According to our research and tests, regular product view page in Magento takes around 2.2 seconds to load. Using our FPC extension, it takes 45 ms (0.045s) to load the page, which is more than 40 times faster.
Therefore having the same server hardware and configuration, your website can serve much more pages from cache, saving more money.
You can specify the time period for updating your cache. It will be updated as often as you choose. This will help to keep your data up to date with minimum speed loss. The feature is useful when your website gets updated not only via admin panel (e.g. when products are imported by some automatic script). Changes done via Magento admin panel get cached immediately.
You’re in control of whether to use dynamic blocks or not. The Full Page Cache extension completely supports caching of dynamic blocks, serving both page and blocks from cache.
Dynamic blocks, such as shopping cart sidebar block, shopping cart floating window, logged in customer welcome message, and others are cached separately for each visitor of your website. And when some page is served from cache, dynamic blocks are being injected automatically into the “holes”. This is also known as holes punch feature.
Moreover, dynamic blocks of 3-rd party extensions are also supported. Specific behavior for such blocks may be configured on advanced level within the extension configuration file.
You might want to disable support of dynamic blocks completely if your custom theme does not use them, or if caching of third-party blocks works incorrectly.
It's hardly possible to overestimate the role of Magento speed optimization, as speed is one of the major factors for Google to rank a website. The page load time is measured by Google and other search engines and used to put your website higher in search results when your loading speed is faster.
In addition to speed increase, the extension has a setting to detect whether a search engine robot or a regular visitor is browsing your website. We applied this SEO feature to help robots index websites more quickly. If it is enabled, the module will load pages for robots even faster, as there is no need to start customer session in such cases.
If you would like not to cache some pages, you can do so by listing the pages in the extension configuration section. For example, shopping cart page should not be cached, as it’s different each time and for each customer.
The FPC extension automatically keeps cache up-to-date. It refreshes different types of page cache when the information gets modified. For example, when you edit product information, the extension automatically refreshes cache for category, search and product view pages.This is handy, because at some point you or a staff member may forget to flush the cache manually. By the way, manual cache refresh is still available.
The module enables you not to separate cache for different customer groups, thus improving storage usage.
Optimize server load by automatically redirecting store visitors to the already cached pages and decrease the average page loading time. The best solution to navigate users to the required pages is the Amasty GeoIP Redirect extension.
If left unchecked, Magento session files can grow out of control and have a negative impact on your store performance. Now you can automatically delete outdated session and report files using FPC extension. Additionally, you can determine how often (in days) you need to remove old session files.
You can enable debug mode to make sure the extension serves pages from cache and to see page load times. Red frames will highlight the module configuration issues and help you to find and fix problems faster if they occur. Enable debug hints and you’ll never be misled while configuring Full Page Cache.
It may be necessary to clear cache on each specific page individually. With the Full Page Cache extension, you can do this either programmatically or via GET Param. To activate the option for a specific product, you may as well employ product grid update attributes mass action.
In case on your website IP detection is not working properly you can enable/disable debug mode on the store page via GET parameters.
This option enables you to quickly compress your data for cache storage. You can also specify the level of compression.
Specify maximal database cache storage size in Megabytes to limit cache generation according to your needs.
With this option you'll be able to cache your mobile and web browser pages separately.
The Full Page Cache extension also supports multi currency websites.
The extension works with any kind of SSL secure sites. All secure pages get cached.
Whether you use Content Distribution Networks or not, the Full Page Cache extension will cache your entire page either way. Together with CDN you can get even better load speed results.
We used only native Magento functionality to create the extension. It supports any Magento backend caches, so you have a choice what to use. As for:
The speed up Magento extension also supports Magento mobile theme, multiple stores & currency, doesn't depend on a webserver.
Moreover, our Full Page Cache extension is compatible with 3-rd party extensions and themes, it can cache any page, not depending if it's a standard Magento page (like category or product page) or a page created by some extension.
With the full page cache tool you can dramatically improve the speed of the Improved Layered Navigation and AJAX Scroll extensions by Amasty.
Full Page Cache Crawler is an indispensable tool when it comes to 'warming the cache' for better page load performance. The pages visited by a great number of users require much more time and server resources during the first request for cache generation, while the following requests are performed faster, because the site displays cached content. Therefore, to make this process less time consuming and invisible for store visitors, the crawler is developed to crawl and request popular pages when the number of visitors is minimal.
Full Page Cache crawler carefully sorts site pages choosing those that should be cached first of all and adds them to the queue. After the queue is generated, the crawler processes it using cron. The pages are generated emulating various combinations of parameters and then are cached.
If your webshop has thousands of pages which are being constantly but not evenly updated, the feature will do you a great service. Googlebot has limited numbers of pages to index within a one-time interval. It may loose much of the crawl budget on the pages that were not modified since the last update. The feature allows skipping such pages and re-indexing only modified ones. Thus, significantly increasing the amount of re-indexed pages.
Each link from the queue is to be checked with all settings combinations from General Settings tab and with default settings, it means when there is no directions for the link. One can easily specify the following parameters for page combinations:
Queue options tab includes a rich list of settings that will help you to fine tune crawling process according to your needs.
Specify:
Due to fancy visual statistics you will easily keep track of crawling progress. Different types of data are carefully arranged in separate tabs:
For a proper crawler work now you can:
See a thorough instruction here, it explaines how to configure the module in details. Just select the tab with the info you want to learn at the top right corner.
Customers frequently ask us how much faster Amasty Full Page Cache is, compared to Magento Enterprise Full Page Cache. So, to get the precise data we decided to conduct a series of tests. We ran rounds of tests for 10, 20, 30, 40, and 50 simultaneous users.
The results showed that Amasty Full Page Cache surpassed Magento Enterprise Full Page Cache in most of the actions.To demonstrate how this works for your business, here’s the table of performance improvement you can get if you replace Magento Enterprise Full Page Cache with Amasty Magento FPC.
Apart from that, with the FPC Amasty tool you can:
Our customers were curious to find out how our extension stacks up against other modules on the market. So we've decided to conduct a study comparing Amasty Full Page Cache and Varnish Cache.
The results were astonishing. With our Full page cache 14 tested pages load 2-4 times faster than using Varnish Cache together with a Magento integration extension Turpentine. You can see the most significant difference when a user first visits a website, which is clearly the most important moment in visitor's path to purchase.
Full Page Cache comparison: Amasty FPC vs Magento Enterprise FPC
Amasty research: Full Page Cache vs Varnish Cache
Amasty Research: How fast can Magento be with Full Page Cache?
Yes, the Full Page Cache extension supports Redis. To see the full list of supported Magento caches continue reading.
Read the FULL answerYes, the Full Page Cache extension offers to apply the hole punch to blocks. See the complete answer to learn the full list.
Read the FULL answerAmasty Full Page Cache module supports any server configuration, no additional software is required.
It depends on your current TTFB and server. According to the tests we conducted, our FPC extension can save seconds of loading time which may be critical for your visitors and ROI as a result. Read on to see the tests results.
Read the FULL answerYes, this can be achieved with a cache crawler which is included in FPC. You will also need your XML sitemap which contains links to all pages of your site (you will be provided with all the detailed instructions on how to use Amasty cache crawler for that).
Each store will have separate cache warmer. This ensures that all the information shown to your visitors is correct. What is more, you can create as many combinations for Amasty cache crawler (included into FPC) as possible to ‘warm up’ them.
Yes, it’s possible. You will just need to indicate the store ID in the Observer file.
Yes, sure you can keep all the checkout pages uncached for correct operation of the process. Use special settings listed in the full answer to conduct caching of the needed areas.
Read the FULL answerYou can set best Magento Full Page Cache plugin's cache options for each customer group to make sure all blocks, prices, etc. are displayed correctly.
FPC can be refreshed at any time via admin panel or with the help of a script.
Yes, you can do that by creating a special file and listing in it the pages where you need to flush FPC (you will be provided with all the detailed instructions on how to do that).
Yes, Amasty Cachespeed extension fully supports HTTPs.
The extension supports responsive mobile interface. All you need for this is to enable mobile design in the general settings section. Go on reading to follow detailed instructions.
Read the FULL answerYes, Full Page Cache settings provide an ability to change cache lifetime (in hours).
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