Offering a fast experience to your users is essential when it comes to online shopping. We've developed a speed optimization plugin to optimize Magento installs quickly and easily. Best of all, it's free!

GTspeed - A speed optimization plugin for Magento websites

GTspeed does four primary tasks to improve speed:

• JS/CSS minification
  Optimize your scripts by removing superfluous data like whitespace and comments.
• JS/CSS script combining
  Reduce your HTTP requests by merging all JS/CSS scripts into 2 single requests.
• Expires Headers enabling
  Make your content cacheable to prevent unnecessary requests.
• Image Optimization
  Deliver only optimized images with lossless compression utilities.

These are the top hurdles that determine how fast your site is delivered to your visitors. GTmetrix addresses them all to reduce load time and speed up delivery of site content.

In addition, you're also able to schedule automatic image optimization to ensure your site always delivers optimized files.

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Installation

IMPORTANT - This plugin makes changes to your images (products and skins). Be sure to backup your js, skin and media directories (and any other specified directories) before you proceed.

System -> Magento Connect -> Magento Connect Manager

Login to your Magento install and go to the Magento Connect Manager (System -> Magento Connect -> Magento Connect Manager).

Click on Search for modules via Magento Connect.

It will ask you to login again using your admin credentials (as you're now logging into the Magento Connect site).

Once you've logged in, Search for the "GTspeed" extension. Click on the GTspeed extension page. (or you can click here)

Copy your Extension Key

Choose your Magento Connect Version, and click Install Now - You will be presented with an extension key. Copy this key and go back to your Magneto Connect Manager.

Paste your Extension Key

In the Paste extension key to install field, paste your copied key. Click Install.

The extension will now be downloaded and installed.

Note: After installing the plugin, you may find that your "Advanced Settings" link to lead to a 404. This is a Magento quirk, and is easily remedied by logging out and back in again.

Download and extract the contents the plugin into your base Magento directory. Then follow our Magento Optimization Guide for the rest of the walkthrough.

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Troubleshooting

I enabled Minification and now my pages forever to load!

Your var/mincache/ folder may not be writeable. GTspeed needs this folder to be writeable in order to save cached versions of your CSS and JavaScript.

Try to set permissions to at least 666 on this directory.

I enabled Minification and my pages have no style or my JavaScript functions fail!

Make sure the files in the /min/ directory as well as the folder itself are readable(at least 644) by your webserver.

Another reason why this issue might occur is that your JS/CSS files maybe improperly coded (invalid syntax, formatting, @import existing outside the top, etc). Check your CSS files with a CSS validator or your JS files with JSHint to make sure there are no major errors.

Optimizing images doesn't work!

You may not have enough PHP memory available to your server. Increase the limit through your php.ini or .htaccess file or contact your host to have it increased for you.

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