Updated for '08 - Make Your osCommerce Faster
I just finished up the next osC Book update - 'How To Make Your osCommerce Faster' - in this eBook I show a number of methods that will speed up your osCommerce store.
Some of the changes are very simple, some are more advanced. This morning, I installed a brand new osCommerce RC2 and managed to get the page load time down from 1.375 seconds to 0.563 seconds with just a few cut and paste changes and a couple of Admin changes - that's a page load speed decrease of just about 59% - and that is on a standard installation of osCommerce - if you have a larger osCommerce store, you should see even more startling results!
In addition to the excellent speed increase, the changes mean less calls to the MySQL database which is always a good thing.
The contents of the eBook is very easy to follow and I can say for sure, that even if you only make a couple of the changes in the eBook, your store will run faster and smoother.
So, if you want to make your osCommerce speedier - and therefore more pleasing to your potential buyers, have a think about purchasing the eBook - you might just learn something you didn't know before.
And the price is set at just £3.99 (about $7) - not too much to pay for a more pleasing website I'd say. www.oscbooks.com
Gary,
I bought a similar sounding book from you 4 years ago. How is this one different? I'm assuming it's updated for RC2a, but other than that, how has the eBook changed?
-jared
Comment by jared — April 20, 2008 @ 5:15 am
Jared - Updated for RC2, changed 1 recommendation (large small image mod), removed 1 recommendation (flat text file instead of SQL call). I think that's about it.
Comment by Gary — April 20, 2008 @ 8:16 am