Magento 2 performance
Several studies have shown a link between how quickly an online store loads and how many visitors go on to make a purchase. In short, pages need to load quickly for your visitors. Magento 2 is being developed with a strong focus on performance, and several improvements in this area have already been made.
An end-to-end test of the current Magento 2 developer release shows that every page is already faster than in the current version of Magento. The test covers the homepage, a category page, a product page, and adding an item to the cart. Overall, Magento 2 is already 25% faster out of the box. Browsing the catalog is around 15% faster, and adding an item to the cart is 45% faster.
Magento 2 introduces a range of optimizations that help pages load faster. Current examples include:
- Caching static content in the browser
- Reducing the amount of JavaScript loaded in the browser
- Eliminating inline JavaScript
- Lazy loading JavaScript
- Using efficient image compression to display (product) images
These optimizations also let Magento handle far more page views and orders on the same infrastructure. In a test environment with 6 web servers and 2 database servers, the current version of Magento can serve 500,000 pages and process 42,000 orders per hour. In the same setup, Magento 2 can serve 10 million pages and process 90,000 orders.
