Performance
Preparing Your Store for Sale Days and Traffic Peaks
A big sale day can bring more visitors in a few hours than a normal week. If the store slows down or fails, you lose sales at the most valuable moment and damage trust. This guide explains how to forecast, test, harden and staff your store so it stays fast when it matters most.
Headless Commerce Explained for Store Owners
Headless commerce separates the shop front customers see from the system that runs products, carts and orders. It promises speed and flexibility, but it also adds cost and complexity. This guide explains what headless really means for a store owner and how to judge whether you need it.
Protecting Your Store From Bots, Scrapers and Card Testing
Much of the traffic to online stores comes from automated software, and not all of it is friendly. Bad bots test stolen cards, break into accounts, copy prices and grab limited stock. This guide explains the threats and the layered defences that stop them.
Do You Need a CDN for Your Online Store?
A content delivery network stores copies of your site's files around the world, so pages load faster for shoppers wherever they are. This guide explains what a CDN does for an online store, when it is worth it, how to set it up safely and what to watch for.
Choosing Hosting for an Online Store: What Matters
Hosting decides how fast your store loads, whether it survives a busy sale day and how quickly problems are fixed. This guide explains the hosting options for online stores, what really matters when comparing them and the questions to ask before you sign.
How to Speed Up a Slow Magento Store
A slow Magento store costs sales and search visibility, but the causes are usually familiar. This guide explains, in plain language, the checks and fixes that make the biggest difference, in the order we tackle them for clients.
Core Web Vitals for Online Stores: What to Fix First
Google's Core Web Vitals measure how fast, responsive and stable your pages feel to real shoppers. This guide explains the three measurements in plain language, shows how to find your weakest pages, and lists the fixes that usually help online stores most.
Magento Hosting in 2026: Server Requirements and How to Choose a Host
Magento 2 is demanding software, and cheap hosting is one of the most common reasons stores feel slow. This guide sets out Adobe's current software requirements, how to estimate the CPU and memory a store needs, the main types of Magento hosting and the questions to ask before choosing a provider.
Valkey, Redis or Varnish? Caching for Magento 2 Explained
The question "Redis or Varnish?" assumes they compete, but in Magento 2 they do different jobs. This guide explains the full-page cache, the application cache and session storage, why Adobe now lists Valkey instead of Redis, and how to configure all three for a fast, stable store.
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