How to speed up Virtuemart 3

[kiro789]

Hello,
I have a VM3 store and I would like to make my shop faster.My site is www.baron.bg
Have you some suggestions how to speed up my site.It is extreme slow now.

[GJC Web Design]

Honestly - this is web design 101

2480px x 1690px images

thumbs all 800px X 533px and these are so large at 500MB each!!!!!

template loading massive css files of which-> 2454 rules (80%) of CSS not used by the current page.

1.9MB page load

[kiro789]

Yes,
I give that site to one Fivver user to improve the template, but as you see he made things even worse.What can I make to do it right.Maybe to take some new template for VM3? I am not very good in VM , so I need some external help.

[Milbo]

Use j2.5.28 and in the tools the joomla table updater. Of course there are also some templates available which slow the shop down.

[GJC Web Design]

but first you can reduce the size of the images you use massively - then re-upload them

[kiro789]

but first you can reduce the size of the images you use massively - then re-upload them

Hi,
Only for confirming: I will download all pics in images/stories/virtuemart/product/ than I will resize them and than upload again, is that right? I ask because I am new to Virtuemart. And second: I am searching for a good VM3 template, unfortunately there are only few good at the moment.I think, I will use JM Computers and Electronics VirtueMart Store from Joomla Monster, they have posted: Speed Up Your Site.Speed up your site by compressing CSS and JS files! Get more visitors to your site thanks to SEO optimized code.Can you recommend me some fast VM3 template?
Regards!

[kiro789]

Is there any difference if my images are in .png or .jpg? Which is better for speed? And If there are .png in the images/stories/virtuemart/product/ and then I make them .jpg, will the VM recognize them?

[PRO]

Is there any difference if my images are in .png or .jpg? Which is better for speed? And If there are .png in the images/stories/virtuemart/product/ and then I make them .jpg, will the VM recognize them?

you can re-assign images if you rename them.

[GJC Web Design]

always jpg for an "photo realistic image" - png are only for graphics

resize and compress - visually to the best compromise size

Spyros's templates are always clean and super fast - very un-invasive http://extensions.virtuemart.net/vm-templates/hera-virtuemart-template-detail

[Milbo]

Here are more http://extensions.virtuemart.net/vm-templates

[kiro789]

Thanks a lot! Your are amazing! I have optimized my category images and now is better. I will do the same with the product images and I hope the site will load faster.
Best regards!

[Milbo]

I hope you know that vm does that for you, you just need to change the thumbnail size set in the vm config.

[kiro789]

Hello,
I would like first to ask, before I do something wrong:
1.I would like to replace all images with new ones (thumbnails and original) - What will be the easiest way? Because I have a of lot images in png even in the thumbnails.I would like to replace them with jpg
2.When I clear the folder resized, will they be replaced with new automatic from the product folder, because each product image has an a path.How can I change the path of all resized images at ones.

[jenkinhill]

For product images you only need to optimise the main image.  I have sorted this before by donloading the  images/stories/virtuemart/product  directory, deleting the contents of the resized subdirectory and bulk optimised the remaining main product images using Photoshop without renaming them (other image editors could be used) and uploading the directory back to the live site.  The thumbs are automatically recreated.

[kiro789]

Ok,
But What I mean is that.I will optimize all the images without to rename, but when I change the images is from .png to .jpg , is that not a rename?
The path is now: images/stories/virtuemart/product/комплект br019.png
And the new path is:  images/stories/virtuemart/product/комплект br019.jpg
Is that not a rename.