Joomla Sport Template

1. Turn on Gzip Compression

Fot this , go to Global Configurations -> Server and set Gzip compression to enable the page compression.This setting loads your page faster by compressing your website pages while its sent through the server.

2. JoomlaTemplate Optimization

This is one of the most common problems that I have seen with Joomla or any other sites.  There are quite a lot of beautiful design templates that attract your eyes,but mainly cost you in performance of your site. These templates contain a lot of heavy design images that make up most of the requests during the website’s loading time. So try using some alternate simple template designs which mainly focus on content rather than slow your website down.If you would still consider using your heavy design template, then try out a tool called website Analyzer using this link .  Which will give you some important suggestions related to your sites performance.

3.Turn on Joomla Cache

To enable the cache on your website, Go to  global configuration -> System  in your admin panel and then turn on the cache option on the right,this will cache your website pages when its visited and will load it way faster in the subsequent visits. But turn this off if your site pages have dynamic content present in it, which frequently changes for few seconds.

4.Turn off unwanted components

You can find thousands of components to suit your needs and will install pretty much some of these components either you use them or don’t.Well, some of these components are also responsible for slowing your website’s loading time. So uninstall the components that you don’t normally use or don’t think is that important.

5. Install Query Cache Component

Download and install the Joomla query cache component , but this component installs when legacy is turned off. So make sure you do not have Joomla legacy turned on or it may not install properly.

6.Turn off Statistics

These stats generate a lot of SQL queries to get the visitors information.These kind of stats are unimportant and useless.Instead use Google Analytics to keep track of your users. They may generate nice detailed stats and may even give you lot of user information, but at the same time will cause a huge performance penalty.

7. Install the PHPSpeedy  Plugin

The PHP Speedy Plug in for Joomla,will allow you to modify each of its settings through its  parameters.Its a PHP library created and designed to optimize the loading speed of your PHP website.Hence its a script which compresses the JavaScript and CSS files in the template, and do the Gzip compression, there may be many plugins out there that do these functions separately, this plugin does it all in one. Download.

8. Enable caching for modules.

The modules that you have enabled in your website have an optional caching option that’s often set to disabled. Enable the caching option for all the modules you are using in your website to improve loading performance of your website’s modules.

9.Optimize your database.

The database consists of schema representing the format and tables in which the data is stored. So you will need to Optimize the tables and optimize the schema. The schema as mentioned is just a basic representation needs to be optimized just once, whereas the tables that are modified frequently need to be optimized regularly. In order to optimize the tables go to phpMyAdmin, select all tables, and click “optimize”.  Click these links to read more about optimizing the database tables,  link from MySQL.

10. Optimize your index.php file.

The obvious thing is that the templates that you install in your website will have lot of comment lines and useless codes written in them which is of no use and do no good.Go to your template manager and edit the index.php page of your website page and remove all the white spaces or comment lines and any other junk codes that you find .

11. Compress your images.

The images give life into your content , but at the same time will slow down the article loading time. So even if you have placed an awesome pic in your content or waited lot of time editing to come up with a masterpiece image for your article, people may cancel the page if the loading time of the image eats up their time. So a better options is to optimize  your images and aim for a minimum size, for eg try keeping PNG and JPEG size to 8-12Kb. Try using photoshop to edit and save the images for better optimized image with the save for web option to use it in your website.

12. Test using Firefox plugins.

Finally check out your site loading time frequently using the firefox plugin called  YSlow, an addon for firebug for Firefox which will help you to analyse your site for further improvement.Using which you can analyse your website’s loading time and performance.You can also tweak your website using a website analyzer tool.