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# Magento Optimization Steps

IMPORTANT NOTE: You can run Magento on our shared hosting plans, however due to Magento being very resource intensive, you will not get optimum performance, and probably will deal with slow issues (regardless of the level of optimization you perform). We recommend for Magento (especially for Mageno 2.0+) that you look into a [VPS](https://mochahost.com/vps.php) or [Cloud](https://mochahost.com/dedicated.php) package instead.

NOTE: Before you begin optimizing your Magento, please review our general [Performance Optimization Tips article](https://clientarea.mochahost.com/knowledgebase/758)

Please follow the steps below in order to optimize your Magento application and speed up your website:

1. Utilize **Caching**.

To enable, navigate to **System → Cache Management**, select everything and then under the drop-down select **Enable** and click **Submit**.

![](https://tutorials.my-virtual-panel.com/articles/0magento.png)

2. Enable **Flat Catalog**.

Navigate to **System → Configuration → Catalog**, under **Frontend change Use Flat Catalog Category and Use Flat Catalog Product to Yes**, click on **Save Config** and **clear the cache (the recommended way to do this is to delete everything from the /var/cache directory)**.

![](https://tutorials.my-virtual-panel.com/articles/2magento.png)

3. **Concatenate (merge) CSS and Javascript Files**.

Navigate to **System → Advanced → Developer**, under **JavaScript Settings and CSS Settings change the dropdown to Yes** and click on **Save Config**, after combining these files, you will need to **clear the cache** (follow the process we mentioned earlier).

![](https://tutorials.my-virtual-panel.com/articles/3magento.png)

4. **Enable Magento Compilation**.

Navigate to **System → Tools → Compilation, click on Run Compilation Process**.

![](https://tutorials.my-virtual-panel.com/articles/4magento.png)

5. **Clean Up Magento Database & Logs**.

Navigate to **System → Configuration → Advanced→ System → Log**, under **Save Log, Days change it to 14 days**, or whatever you prefer, click on **Save Config**.

![](https://tutorials.my-virtual-panel.com/articles/5magento.png)

6. Fewer Extensions & Modules.

Navigate to **System → Configuration → Advanced→ Advanced → Log**, on the modules you don’t need select **Disable** from the drop-down box and click on **Save Config**.

![](https://tutorials.my-virtual-panel.com/articles/6magento.png)

7. Setup a robots.txt file which will help you reduce your load from web crawlers. Please, follow this guide:

[Using robots.txt in order to optimize your site performance and reduce your website load](https://clientarea.mochahost.com/knowledgebase/750)

8. **Update Indexes.**

Navigate to **System → Index Management**, select all of the **indexes** (or the ones you want to update), choose **Reindex Data** from the dropdown and click **Submit**.

![](https://tutorials.my-virtual-panel.com/articles/7magento.png)