Look at the benchmarks (in the link I posted) they speak for themselves....
Well, those benchmarks do NOT include OpenCart, and I have made a bunch of
real-time
Tests, by use of my peaked Test OC's, and always packed at least with 2K Products,
and not getting ANY result, better than before. But I am also aware of, that getting an OC
20 products Category GTMetrix Result from 98% up to 99% is not that easy either...
And what counts for me is, what a Visitor gets, and not some theoretical Benchmarks.
However, I cannot speak for latest OC Versions, since I use v.1.5.6.5, but combined
with V.2.x Bootstrap Themes, and PHP 7.0.x will be the End of the Line for this Version,
without changing some of the existing Code. Still, there was no measusable difference
to PHP 5.x, used before, performance-wise, and from a Visitor Point of View.
But I am also aware of the Fact, that some Responsive Themes drop GTMetrix Results
by 15%+ Performance Points, without adding anything else, but themselfs...
As you can see on the image just below...
But for those, using
MySql before, the also required change to
MySqli is a giant
step upwards, but this has nothing to do with PHP-7 either, just to mention this as well.
There are lots of things, keeping OC from doing, what it could, but as long as
OC Users fill their Pages with all that crab, available in the Extension Sections,
it's just a Dream, to expect an OC to work better, just by changing to PHP 7.2.x.
Ernie
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Another Theme, and I tried everything, but that's the best I got out of it, so, I dropped it from the list...
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Link to large image:
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