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Since 2013The work itself

Magento 2 performance optimization.

The fixes that follow the audit, quoted per item, so you never buy an open-ended optimisation project.

From€2,500, scope based on your audit

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What actually makes a Magento 2 store slow?

Magento 2 has a reputation for being heavy. It is a large application, but the stores we are asked to rescue are rarely slow because of the framework. They are slow because of decisions made around it over the years.

The pattern repeats. Someone switched off a cache to debug a problem in 2022 and never switched it back on. An extension runs a query on every page load. The catalogue grew from 2,000 to 40,000 products and indexing was never revisited. Product images are uploaded at 3000 pixels wide and scaled down in the browser. None of these are exotic, and all of them are fixable.

We work through them in order of impact, verify each change against the baseline from the audit, and stop when the numbers say the remaining work is not worth what it costs.

The work

What a performance sprint includes.

Scope comes from your audit, so no two sprints are identical. These are the areas the work usually falls into.

Backend and configuration

The layer where most of the time is lost.

  • Production mode and compiled code
  • Full page cache and Varnish
  • Redis for sessions and cache
  • Indexers on schedule, not on save

Frontend delivery

What the browser has to do before anything appears.

  • Critical CSS and deferred assets
  • Image formats and responsive sizes
  • Font loading without layout shift
  • Third-party scripts moved or removed

Extensions and custom code

The most common single cause we find.

  • Profiling per page type
  • Slow queries traced to their source
  • Heavy work moved to the background
  • Replace or reconfigure, whichever is cheaper
Why us

Why this is different from a generic tune-up.

Every change is measured

We compare against the baseline after each batch. If a change does not move the number, we say so instead of adding it to a list of things we did.

Quoted per item

You see what each fix costs and what it is expected to return, so you can stop at the point where the maths stops working. No open-ended retainer.

We build Magento too

We run Magento stores in production, including a catalogue of more than 40,000 products. We recognise these patterns because we have had to solve them for ourselves.

Staging first, always

Nothing goes to your live store without being verified on a copy. Performance work touches caching and indexing, which is exactly where a careless change takes a shop offline.

How we work

From first measurement to result in five steps.

Fixed phases with a fixed price per phase. No open ending.

01

Measure

Lab and field data per page type, so we compare what real visitors experience against what a test tool reports.

Week 1
02

Diagnose

Where the milliseconds go: server, cache, database, theme or third-party script. You get the findings ranked by impact and effort.

Week 1
03

Quick wins

The fixes that pay off immediately, applied on staging first and verified before they go live.

Week 2
04

Structural work

The heavier items from the diagnosis, quoted separately so you decide what is worth doing.

Week 3 to 4
05

Verify and hand over

The same measurements again, side by side with the starting point, plus what to watch from here.

Week 5
Proof

Magento stores we build and run every day.

We do not only tune other people’s Magento stores. We build and maintain them, which is why we recognise the patterns quickly.

Working with Magento since
2013
Products in our largest catalogue
45k+
Typical audit to verified result
5 wks
Gripzakjes.nlMagento

Magento webshop, hosting en doorlopend onderhoud

Pharmaprofit.beMagento

Magento webshop voor de apothekersmarkt met ruim 40.000 producten, automatische categorisering en afgeschermde toegang voor vakgenoten

Modernemeubels.comMagento

Een toekomstvaste Magento 2-webshop met een fris design en betrouwbare, gespecialiseerde hosting.

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FAQ

Vragen over magento 2 performance in optimization.

The questions we get most about this.

How long does a sprint take?

Quick wins usually land within two weeks of the audit. Structural work runs three to four weeks depending on what came out, and we agree the scope before we start.

Can you work with our existing developer?

Yes, and often that is the cheapest arrangement. We diagnose and specify, your team implements, we verify. We are happy to work either way.

What if my store runs an older Magento release?

Then the version is part of the conversation. Releases that have reached end of life miss performance features and no longer receive security patches, so tuning them is often money spent twice. We will tell you plainly whether upgrading first is the better use of your budget.

Do you touch the design?

Not in a performance sprint. If the theme itself is the ceiling, that becomes a separate conversation about a frontend rebuild, quoted separately.

What happens to the speed afterwards?

It decays, honestly. Updates, new extensions and catalogue growth all pull it back. That is why we offer monitoring, so you find out before your customers do.

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