How to optimize a Magento website?

Question

Magento

I have a Magento website close to completion. However, when I host the site on my staging and production servers, it takes a long time to load (15-20 seconds). I have checked my servers and all my server side requirements seem to be ok. I feel like this is a configuration or code level issue and my developer isn't sure how to resolve this issue. I am hosted on non-cpanel servers. The servers don't have access to cpanel or ftp because the servers don't have those either. I'm using Bitbuckets Pipelines. I only have access to the database and storage in Bitbucket, and I can check and do things on the server according to your instructions. Please advise how to solve this problem with Magento website optimization.

Answer 1

You need to enable caching in Magento.
Everything will load quickly.

Answer 2

1) as already said, caching
2) activate the slow query log in MySQL and look at it. And in general the database config
3) see which parts of the page are slow - https://www.webpagetest.org/ etc.
4) Are the servers close to you and potential users?