MAGENTO running slowly?

[Lucan Unlordly]

We are on superfast broadband and can rapidly move through the pages of every online programme we use apart from our Magento Admin one's which take on average about 10 seconds or longer to respond.

I've found a some information about increasing speeds, online and will catch up with me web guy on this over the next couple of days but am wondering if my expectations are unrealistic? How fast is yours?

PS: The public facing pages are fine, opening in a couple of seconds.

 

[Solve My Problem]

Magneto like lots of platforms benefits from front end caching. The backend typically isn't cached in the same way.

In my experience it's normal for magneto to be slow especially the backend.

 

[WebDesires]

Magento is a hog, a horrid mess of open-source X proprietary code - an horrendous system in general - it being slow is just it being it.

 

[zigojacko]

A Magento website that is taking 5+ seconds to load pages is caused by a poor/inadequate server environment or poor third party code (theme/extensions) with the obvious factor of what a particular process is having to do. It is almost always resolvable and I have seen Magento 2 websites load in less than two seconds.

But it is a very complex platform and generally, a nightmare for developers to work with, even Magento developers. Unless you have someone with a substantial background in working with Magento 2, you'll quite possibly struggle to get the results you're aiming for.

Here is a performance report for one of our Magento 2 clients who we're still actively pushing modifications for so we have some optimisation elements disabled as well as Varnish Caching off right now and it still loads in under 3 seconds.

 

[Hooble]

Magneto like lots of platforms benefits from front end caching. The backend typically isn't cached in the same way.

In my experience it's normal for magneto to be slow especially the backend.

Do you know what kind of cache your using with Magento, some have inbuilt modules for Magento that can speed it up a lot, Litespeed for example which we use on our Magento hosting.

 

[webmto]

Well... not really. Magento is a monster, but it can work quite well if optimised properly.

 

[makeusvisible]

We run Magento sites with 20k+ SKUs. None of them take 10 seconds to load admin dashboard pages. It's certainly not the case that Magento inherently has that problem. You should be whizzing through the dashboard if the site is running properly, with no delays.

Theres two likely causes;

1. You have an underspecified hosting environment
2. You have a poorly configured Magento install (eg bloated/poor extensions)

Scenario 1 is far easier to solve. If you are on an unsuitable hosting environment currently, you can expect a significant hike in hosting costs to move to a suitable host. This official doc is worth a read here https://experienceleague.adobe.com/docs/commerce-operations/performance-best-practices/hardware.html

In the case of scenario two. i.e you are on a suitable hosting setup, and still experiencing speed issues, the problem will be more time consuming to diagnose. It literally could be caused by a rouge line of code, or it could be caused by a problem extension...... but it will take time to test and establish what the cause is.

 

[goivvy]

Are you running with php-fpm? In some cases it helps to switch to static and have as many workers available as possible. 1 worker per cpu core is a rule of thumb.

As I understand it's the backend that's slow? It could be a third party extension you installed. Try tideways - it's a php profiler with a two week trial period, it should be enough to see what's going on. It will tell you what code is slowing the site down.

Make sure you run in production mode, it could make a difference:

php bin/magento deploy:mode:set production

And enable all caches:

php bin/magento cache:flush