X-Cart Performance
The problem
After launching a x-cart based store with 500+ products many customers admit it has definite problems with performance. Our company studies each case and keeps appropriate recordings. Basing on that we separate the following most frequent reasons of a poor-performing x-cart installation:
1. Database structure. The database structure of x-cart is not optimized for mid-sized and large-sized stores, slow "SELECT" queries using several selection parameters make your visitors wait for some seconds while the page opens.
2. Smarty templates. Being a great piece software, Smarty templates are not always quick. Partially it is caused by the caching mechanism built into Smarty, partially by sophisticated nature of the engine that allows Smarty to have a kind of meta language, and due to some other technical issues.
It's clearly seen from our studies that the more products you have in the store, the more delays your customers will experience. Recent experiments in e-commerce field show that companies loose a great percent of customers just due to the fact of a poor-performing web-site. Imaging yourself in the shoes of a prospective customer: why wait for 10-15 seconds for a category of products to load when a competitors site has already displayed the categories, products and only waits when CC info is entered to complete the purchase?
One can ask: is there any sense in purchasing an x-cart license if it performs so badly? Short answer is: yes. If to be more descriptive we can say that costs of optimization aimed at speeding up x-cart are comparatively small against the costs of a high-end solution.
The solution
Along with other customization services aheadWorks offers full range of modifications improving x-cart performance including but not limited to:
1. Audition of your current x-cart installation, including all mods and customizations you already have.
2. Benchmarking the site, with bigger attention to most common pitfalls.
3. Finding and explaining the reasons of low performance and suggesting ways to improve the speed.
4. Actual optimization work.
5. Comparison of updated and old versions of your site.
6. Continued support.
When determining the scope of work we describe you what will we do and how will this effect your site. You pay for promised improved performance only!
Our rate: $30/hour
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