Performance & hosting

25 Magento speed fixes ranked by impact and effort, from Varnish and Valkey to images and third-party scripts, with a way to verify each one.

Cron drives indexing, emails, sitemaps and queues in Magento. Here is how it works, the commands that prove it is healthy and the warning signs that mean it is not.

How Magento and Adobe Commerce use OpenSearch, how to set it up safely, and a troubleshooting table that maps common bad-search symptoms to their real cause and fix.

What each Magento cache layer stores, from Varnish full page cache to Valkey and the browser, how each is invalidated, and how to check it works.

What Magento 2.4.9 needs from a server, how Adobe, managed Magento hosts, cloud VPS and self-managed options compare, and a checklist of questions to ask any host.

A symptom-to-cause table for LCP, INP and CLS on Magento pages, from cache misses and galleries to Knockout JavaScript, plus a practical fix plan.

Hyvä is now free, Breeze keeps Luma templates, and Luma needs no rebuild. Our decision matrix matches each to your extensions, budget, team and timeline.

Before you spend on new Magento development, run these 60 checks across code, performance, SEO, security, extensions and data. Each one shows how to check it and what a fail costs.

The Hyvä Theme has been free since November 2025, but Checkout, UI and Enterprise are still paid. Here is how Hyvä works, what extension compatibility really costs and a go/no-go checklist.