March, 2011

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Compressing the File Size of a Magento Homepage

Posted on: 22nd Mar 2011 By: Robert Kent 4 Comments
Compressing the File Size of a Magento Homepage

If you are suffering from high file sizes in your Magento installation it could be that the server you are hosting on does not have Gzip compression on by default. Gzip compression is almost essential for every Magento store due to the high number of javascript files. It is quite common for the combined javascript [...]

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Magento URL Rewrites on a Windows Server

Posted on: 25th Aug 2010 By: Luci Smethurst 3 Comments
Magento URL Rewrites on a Windows Server

For the record, I don’t recommend running Magento on a Windows server – I have nothing against IIS, but Magento was really built for Linux servers. Things like URL rewrites become needlessly difficult when they could be as simple as changing a dropdown box in the backend to “Yes”… However, if you or a client [...]

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