I have previously written a script to generate 20,000 products but I did not experience much slow-down
but thats probably because they were artificially generated with single categories
Well, by use of Isenselabs famous Auto-ProductsGenerator, everything is done like in the default way
of entering Products, and one can code-define just about any value, to then be part of the 'real' Game,
under real Conditions. And by use of a decent amount of images, one is likely not even beeing repeated
on the same Category Page, to possibly 'harm' real timings...
As a consequence of this, I am able to test my Sites, with any amount of products, options, images,
whatever, in order to get 'near-real' Test Results. I also invested more time on this Speed Stuff than most
everybody else here, by building near to 200 different (- ~50KProd.) setups during 3+Years, playing with OC.
I therefore know well, what it takes, and where one has to change what, to peak OC to it's max, especially,
when it comes to Category pages, since I don't just prepare a Front Page only, to make it look, on first view,
like a 'speedy' place.
And it only takes 20 Bucks, and a couple thousand sample images, to auto-create 50K + Products, and so
also fill up every existing category with a just about equal amount of them. And I also leave the informative
and customerfriendly OC Product Counting switched on, in all my Test Shops, because this don't make
no difference, at least not, if those values are cached.
There must be a reason, why GTMETRIX gives me a 99er, on a Desktop View Category Page, when
it comes Page Load Performance. And the still comparably 'poor' 89er Result on the YSlowValue only exists,
because I did not bother to combine Styles and Scriptings, just to get this value a few points up as well, at
least not, as long as it's still undecided, what will eventually be used in my final Thing.
2'001 active Products, 671 Prod.Images, ~ OC default Category settings, Bootstrap Theme:
https://gtmetrix.com/reports/www.bigmax.ch/cfXRI8i4
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But I made some tests tonight, by use of exactly 50'000 autogenerated Products, on this
mostly similar equipped Site, to actually finding nothing, really different from what it was before...
https://gtmetrix.com/compare/XDRBpN2e/4XahYJpc/RYDUPhaD
PS: Always RE_TEST, to see latest Values!
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But it also depends HEAVY on the Theme and other Extensions used, I just tested another Bootstrap Theme
costing me
25/20 Percentage Points, just because of all that shiny crab and pic's, all over the place,
likely also produced by Scripts and styles, filling up the header sections with XX code lines, and so additionally
slowing down overall page load.... for likely then not even used/needed on/for i.E. category pages at all...
And OC requires a well-done Server, tied to a high-speed broadbband-line, without that, it will just not work,
as it could. One has to be aware, how much CPU Power and Server Memory it takes, (I got 640MB reserved)
to produce a simple
speedy oc-cat-page, but on a 'cheap' monthly Server Rent , IP-shared with
at least
hundreds of others, one cannot expect usable results, when it comes to handling larger Quantities of Categories,
Products, Product Options, and so on....
And It's all 'free+open' Knowledge too, and just, to 'add' my 2 Cents of Wisdom on this.
I even use an regular IP- shared Server for my 40+ Sites, and for all that testing... !
But it's SWISS, so, like most things, known to work, as advertized.
Ernie
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50'000 Product Listed:
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DB View:
