PHP 8.6: What's New, and What Upgrading From 7.x or Early 8.x Actually Gets You
What PHP 8.6 adds, what it deprecates, and what we measured moving the same code from PHP 7.4 through every 8.x release to 8.6 — with and without the JIT.
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How to Tell If Your Magento Store Is Actually Slow
Four numbers that settle the argument about whether a Magento store is slow, where to get them, which pages to measure, and what each one tells you about where the problem is.
The Performance Work Mage-OS Ships and Magento Doesn't
Compiled plugins, PHP 8.4 lazy objects and bfcache all ship in the Mage-OS distribution. One of them was proposed to Magento years ago and never merged. What each does, and what to verify.
What Mage-OS Gives You That Magento and Adobe Commerce Don't
Two of the benefits are features Adobe sells only with a Commerce license. Several more are modules that exist in neither Magento nor Adobe Commerce, and one is a replacement admin theme.
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.
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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