Guide 2025: Improve Magento Performance

Magento is the platform that is known for developing eCommerce websites. When owning an eCommerce website, there are various reasons for your website to function perfectly in order to have conversions on your store. Having an online store entirely means that your sales depend on the performance of your website. It is an unwritten rule that if a page takes more than 3s to load, it will encounter a great loss in traffic to the website and the abandonment rate will be higher in such eCommerce stores too.

You will be shocked to discover that a big number of CMS or eCommerce platforms face the issues with speed and degradation of the performance over time. According to a report, 1/2 delay in the load of the website can result in a 7% reduction in conversions. What`s more, the page speed is one of the Google’s algorithms that matters in the web search ranking of the website and these websites are penalized by Google for having lower speed. Lower speed of your website result into bad User Experience of your eCommerce store and may create a bad impression amongst the customers.

Magento optimization tips may vary from Magento’s Admin to server or hosting settings. Moving on in this article, you will find some of the simple but effective pieces of advice that will help you improve Magento performance all in all.

#Make Sure that You Have Enabled Flat Catalog

Magento use Entity Attribute Value to store the data for customer and products. These attributes that are applied to categories and products are stored in appropriate database tables depending on the datatypes of the categories and products.

So, if you enable Flat Catalog for the categories and products, you can merge the products data in one table that makes it easier for you to respond to MySQL rapidly and thereby significantly increase Magento performance. Majorly, if an eCommerce store contains more than 1k products, flattening of the categories can be highly beneficial. Wondering how to enable the flat catalog?

Here, I`ll provide you with a step by step guide:

1. Login to your Magento Store as admin
2. Navigate to “System” → “Configuration” → “Catalog.”
3. Under “Frontend” change “Use Flat Catalog Category” and “Use Flat Catalog Product” to “Yes.”
4. Click on “Save Config.”
5. Clear the cache. The recommended way to do this is to delete everything from the /var/cache directory. You can also do it by navigating to “System” → “Cache Management” and clicking on “Flush Cache Storage” which is equivalent to deleting all the cache. For further details on cache management, refer to our guide on reindexing Magento.

#Make Use of Content Delivery Network

Content Delivery Network is a system with distributed servers that will deliver pages and other web content to user, based on various factors: geographic location of the user, origin of the webpage and the server of the content delivery.

Once the Content Delivery Network is implemented to the Magento website can be one of the most easy ways used to instantly reduce the load speed of the website. With the help of CDN such as MetaCDN, you will be able to serve your assets from the multiple geographical locations on the globe and from the nearest location of your customer, the service is provided. This will make the downloading of the assets faster than the generic ones and speed up Magento on the whole. For broader strategies on optimizing your e-commerce platform, consider our checklist for the perfect shopping cart.

#Optimization of Code and Database is Necessary

The major thing of Magento performance optimization is uninstallation of the unnecessary modules that are of no use to your website. With the help of broad optimization scripts and query indexing, the database performance can be improved. For fruitful code optimization, considering a customized migration service could offer tailored solutions, and you must keep examining the frontend and back end codes within a certain time period. Consider a Magento data migration guide for a comprehensive approach.

With an online eCommerce store, you may have huge databases of lots of unnecessary data which may result into less speed and lower effective work of the website. So, if you want to to improve Magento performance, you must make use of database management system such that it will optimize the database on a frequent basis. For advanced database management and migration solutions, explore our database dump migration service.

Image optimization plays a major role in speeding up Magento websites. Based on report results, 56 percent of the website’s page weight is made of the images you use to display your products. Product images optimization can dramatically increase the speed of the pages as it reduces the time of the download.

#Hosting Environment Does Matter

Web host is something that create a great change in the website performance. Selecting a reliable, fast web host can be one of the most important decisions taken for your Magento eCommerce store, and understanding technical hosting requirements is crucial.

Make sure that you have chosen an appropriate host for your website. The shared web hosting environments are always cheap. However, the shared hostings are not recommended as they overcrowd their servers. It means your website will end up sharing the resources with all the hundreds of websites that are shared with your shared hosting environment.

It is recommended to use the hosting environment with PHP 8.3 or newer. It offers significant performance benefits for Magento eCommerce website. For detailed insights into optimizing your server and technical setup, our guide on preparing your target store for migration offers valuable tips.

There are numerous ways on how to improve Magento performance. In this article, we have discussed very few of them. If you're considering a more significant change, exploring e-commerce re-platforming might be beneficial.

Author Bio

The author is Harshal Shah, CEO and founder of Elsner Technologies, a professional Magento development Company &; global IT consulting firm. He is a tech evangelist with a reputation to provide optimum solutions for business automation and solving real life problems with the power of IT.

Monthly Update – October 2025

As we look at October 2025, Magento performance optimization continues to evolve beyond traditional caching and code cleanups. The forefront of improving speed and user experience now heavily relies on advanced strategies. Firstly, embracing server-side rendering (SSR) or progressive web apps (PWAs) for a headless Magento architecture significantly reduces initial load times and provides an app-like feel. This decouples the frontend from the backend, allowing for highly optimized, lightweight user interfaces. Secondly, the smart implementation of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) for personalized content and product recommendations needs to be considered. While intensive, if integrated efficiently, AI can predict user needs and preload relevant content, creating a seemingly instant experience. Edge computing and advanced Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) are also paramount, pushing static and dynamic content closer to the end-user. Furthermore, ongoing database indexing, efficient image compression through modern formats like WebP, and lazy loading techniques are non-negotiable. Regular security audits and performance monitoring with tools that provide real-time insights are crucial to maintaining peak performance. These combined strategies ensure your Magento store delivers a responsive, engaging, and high-converting experience in the competitive 2025 e-commerce landscape. For more details, explore our FAQ section or schedule a call with a migration expert.