PrestaShop Performance Guide

There are many things you can do to improve the performance of your PrestaShop website. Yahoo and Google have both created general website performance guidelines here and here. There are also tools available that rate the performance of your website including Yahoo YSlow! and Google Page Speed. PrestaShop automatically handles most of these performance guidelines for you. This performance guide describes how to implement the guidelines on your PrestaShop website that require action on your part.

Enable GZIP Compression and Browser Caching
Combine, Compress and Cache CSS and JavaScript
Enable Smarty Template and File Caching
Optimise Images and use CSS Sprites
Serve Static Content from a Cookieless Domain
Reduce Cookie Size
Use a Content Delivery Network
Divide Product Images into Subdirectories

PrestaTraining Videos

These training videos are provided courtesy of PrestaTraining.com, who make it easy to learn PrestaShop.