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Improving X-Cart Speed Performance – 2 of 3

by Jason Diehl on February 26, 2010 · 1 comment

In this post I’m going to entertain some intermediate level tasks to improve website performance. Some of these steps will require some editing of files that not every user will feel comfortable changing. If you don’t feel comfortable making the changes, contact your web host or a competent web developer to make the changes for you. The bonus on most of these changes is they can affect more than just X-Cart. You can use them for other shopping carts, and they’ll even speed up the performance of other systems such as Wordpress or Forums that you might be using.

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Improving X-Cart Speed Performance – 1 of 3

February 26, 2010

There are many reasons to improve the performance of your X-Cart eCommerce Store, the primary reason of course is to make sure that your visitors aren’t hanging around waiting for pages to load. Studies show that the visitors patience is getting shorter and shorter, especially as the new generation never had to live with dial up speeds. In addition, some search engines like Google will even soon begin using the speed of your site as a ranking factor.

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