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Feb
4
2010

If you have a Magento site and slow loading configurable products pages, download and use the extension listed here. And the same concept applies to any html block in Magento. Blocks can be cached until edited. This change actually sped up the configurable products page almost 1000%. Our configurable products were based off of over 1000 underlying skus so needless to say, the page loaded slow and now loads at a decent speed. But Magento is never really "fast". It's just such a change, that comparing it to the one minute load times it was having, it's fast now. Below 3 seconds.

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I will no longer develop sites in Magento because when you use the community version for what it is supposed to be used for or what you chose the platform for, like attributes and configurable products, it slows the f down to a crawl. But I still have a few sites in the wild that have issues, so I look for solutions. The slowest page we have on any site is a set of configurable products that have four attributes and about 1000 options a piece. This block caching is one last thing I am going to try, the only thing I haven't and I have tried everything I found with some success. But if this does not work, one site may be going to another shopping cart.

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