Hello Dev Team.
This is a real question. Looking at the code and workflow of joomla + virtuemart I have seen that also in the case of 1 language, the proper translation tables are called. If I have one website only in italian f.e. , it adds the translation table the suffix "it_it" inside the queries.
With this workflow, so having 1 or 4 languages should be indifferent?
THanks
If you add some other languages, Virtuemart creates additional tables for the other languages: products, categories, manufacturer a.s.o.. So you receive a few more database tables. I do not think that it makes the website heavier. If a customer selects another language Virtuemart reads the product names, category names a.s.o. from the other language table. So, why should it make the website heavier?
The multilanguage of joomla slows down the webpages, but vm should have the same speed.
hello everybody and thanks for the reply
Milbo catched it up, joomla for sure add some overweight to multilang , and for sure also other modules if aren't optimized for multilanguage ( f.e. on my modacalcio.it, the gavick menu retrieves every time all the voices from db to refine after with the current lang, quite stupid I think? )
What's my problem: I have 4 lang, but for the moment are used by customers only 2 . I want to keep other 2 also for google placement ( SEO, other customers and every else relarted ), but I don't know if that's worth
Better removing unused language to have a faster website , or the worth is not so considerable?
Thanks
Quote from: ereallstaff on July 03, 2013, 11:09:29 AM
hello everybody and thanks for the reply
Milbo catched it up, joomla for sure add some overweight to multilang , and for sure also other modules if aren't optimized for multilanguage ( f.e. on my modacalcio.it, the gavick menu retrieves every time all the voices from db to refine after with the current lang, quite stupid I think? )
What's my problem: I have 4 lang, but for the moment are used by customers only 2 . I want to keep other 2 also for google placement ( SEO, other customers and every else relarted ), but I don't know if that's worth
Better removing unused language to have a faster website , or the worth is not so considerable?
Thanks
We have a website with 4 languages and it works pretty fast. Optimized images, good server and NOT a lot of nasty js everywhere.
Even more if you check our website you will see we do use a lot of images and js even in the frontpage and still works pretty well.
It will work faster with one language only? probably but hardly noticeable if you have a decent host company, resuming, make sure you use a quality host.
THe problem comes with many many products ( 1000 or more? )
if you website is http://www.comenaranjas.com/ , it's too little for a real test, I think