performance – Coded Commerce, LLC

Posted on February 17, 2020March 29, 2020 by Sean D. Conklin

Big WooCommerce Stores

WooCommerce is known as the leading eCommerce platform for having millions of installations worldwide. It’s had a reputation for scaling challenges. Not any longer! A recent official blog post covered this topic and included examples of six larger WooCommerce stores and a link to the official showcase of sites by category. Scaling is defined there […]

Posted on September 18, 2019March 29, 2020 by Sean D. Conklin

How to fix time-to-first-byte (TTFB) problems

Time-to-first-byte (TTFB) is one of the most useful website performance metrics. It’s also one of the hardest to improve. Caching plugins can’t do much for it; actually they contribute to it. Caching plugins don’t fix cache warm-up, authenticated sessions, submissions / processing, and administration. To improve those you need to get TTFB in range. The recommended target is 0.5 seconds. Here’s my tips to optimize your TTFB.

Posted on May 15, 2019March 29, 2020 by Sean D. Conklin

WooCommerce Los Angeles Presentation: Performance Through Database Cleanup

Join WooCommerce Los Angeles Meetup back at WeWork Santa Monica Broadway on Wednesday, June 5th at 6:30pm for a demonstration session on database cleaning.

Posted on April 2, 2019March 29, 2020 by Sean D. Conklin

A plugin too far

About a dozen colorful wires on a large switchboard with dials and switches

How many plugins is too many for a WordPress site? Well, there’s no real answer to that question. It depends on several rather circumstantial factors…

Posted on February 14, 2019March 30, 2020 by Sean D. Conklin

Cleaning up your WooCommerce Database

Glasses sitting in front of computer screens displaying code

There’s lots you can do to improve database (DB) performance, but each change comes with risks. Always thoroughly test changes in a development environment first before making permanent database changes in production. Growth in data requires a growth in hosting to handle the scale of database size and queries. There’s only so much you can […]

Posted on July 25, 2018March 29, 2020 by Sean D. Conklin

Synthetic Load Testing WooCommerce Orders

In this video I demonstrate a basic load test of WooCommerce orders using the ReST API and artillery.io

Posted on June 3, 2018March 29, 2020 by Sean D. Conklin

You had me at Storefront–Benefits of using the official WooCommerce theme

Screenshot of Bookshop - a child theme of Storefront

Storefront* is the official open-source theme for WooCommerce powered stores. There are significant benefits to implementing the official theme and making your site’s design work with it. Storefront can improve both form and function with a little patience in working it to suit your design needs.