Magento performance — measured and fixed
Make your Magento store fast.
MageSpeedTest is a benchmarking tool and resource for Magento storefronts. Run a speed test against your store, read the guides on TTFB optimisation, Redis and Varnish caching, image handling, and Hyvä migration, and find the practical fixes that move real Magento sites from slow to fast.
LCP
1.4s
Largest Contentful Paint
TTFB
180ms
Time to First Byte
CLS
0.04
Layout Shift
JS
86KB
Total payload
$ magespeedtest --url https://yourstore.com
✓ Cache: HIT (Varnish · Age 142s)
✓ Compression: gzip + brotli
⚠ Image format: JPEG (consider WebP)
What we cover
The five domains where Magento spends its time.
Server & TTFB
OPcache sizing, PHP-FPM tuning, full-page-cache configuration, and the hosting-vs-catalog-size match. The first place to look on most slow stores.
TTFB playbook →Caching
Redis configured properly across three databases. Varnish doing HTTP-level caching with cache-tag invalidation. The two highest-leverage server-side improvements.
Redis setup →Frontend & Themes
WebP, native lazy-loading, responsive image sizing, and the Hyvä-vs-Luma question that determines whether the frontend is a performance liability.
Hyvä vs Luma →Library
Optimisation guides.
- Server & TTFB
Why Magento Stores Are Slow→
7 min - Server & TTFB
TTFB Optimisation for Magento→
9 min - Caching
Redis Caching Setup for Magento 2→
8 min - Caching
Varnish Configuration for Magento→
7 min - Frontend
Image Optimisation in Magento→
8 min - Themes
Hyvä vs Luma Performance→
8 min - Database
Database Performance Tuning for Magento→
8 min