Magento 2 Redis and OpenSearch Optimization
How to configure Redis (or Valkey) and OpenSearch for a fast, stable Magento 2 store — cache vs session separation, eviction policy, heap sizing, and the defaults that hurt under load.
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Checkout Options for a Magento 2 Hyvä Store: What Actually Works
An opinionated comparison of checkout options for Magento 2 stores on Hyvä — official Hyvä Checkout, Luma via theme fallback, the React checkout, third-party one-step checkouts, and custom Magewire builds.
Magento 2 Performance Optimization Checklist
A prioritized, runnable Magento 2 performance checklist — baseline, backend, config, search, and frontend — with the commands to verify each item. Fix the ceiling first.
Luma to Hyvä: What You Actually Gain, and What It Costs
Hyvä swaps Luma's RequireJS and Knockout frontend for Tailwind and Alpine. The speed gains are real — so is the license, the extension audit, and the fact that this is a rebuild, not a reskin.
Magento 2 Checkout Performance: Fixing the Slowest Page You Own
Why Magento 2 checkout is slow — Knockout boot time, shipping rate calls, quote table bloat, and payment scripts — and what to do about each.
Magento 2 Product Page Optimization: Speed Where It Converts
How to make Magento 2 PDPs fast — gallery LCP, configurable product JSON, swatches, private content, and the third-party scripts eating your INP score.
Why Your Magento 2 Category Pages Are Slow (And How to Fix Them)
Magento 2 PLP optimization — layered navigation queries, product collection bloat, image grids, and the cache misses that make category pages your slowest templates.
Magento 2 Performance Optimization: What Actually Moves the Needle
A site-wide Magento 2 performance guide for 2026 — TTFB, full-page cache, Redis, OpenSearch, PHP 8.4, and the outdated advice that's still slowing stores down.
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