Performance and scalability are hot topics for any enterprise application, including the new Magento Enterprise package. Many clients are usually impressed with the features and extensibility of Magento, but there is a worry in the background if the platform can scale to many thousands of orders per day or huge catalogs.
There are two concerns: first, everybody wants to have the shortest loading time possible, which is what we mean by performance. Amazon and Google did some research on this, and found that a hundred milliseconds of delay can already reduce conversion rates. Performance is important for projects large and small, so we will take about in some depth.
Visions, one of Magento’s Enterprise partners, are working with many of these clients and during that work they have written a well-informed article about Magento scalability and performance in large stores.
Be sure to read their article in Magento’s official blog if you are working with an enterprise client:
http://www.magentocommerce.com/blog/comments/understanding-magento-scalability-and-performance-1/
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