Marketplace Performance Booster

About Marketplace Performance Booster

Multi-Vendor itself works perfectly well with thousands and hundreds of thousands of products. However, if you are eager to stand shoulder to shoulder with such giants as Amazon, eBay, or Shopclues and showcase millions of items, it may require some extra optimization.

The Marketplace Performance Booster add-on was designed with for only one purpose - to make your marketplace faster. This module speeds up page loading on repeated visits up to 25 times and allows your store to withstand a higher load. Furthermore, caching improves performance of the stores with hundreds of thousands of products.

Here’s what our module will allow you to:

• increase the page loading speed
• increase the buy-through conversion of your marketplace
• reduce your server expenses.

Caching Explained

When a customer opens a page, Multi-Vendor has to generate it before giving it to the customer. The page has to be generated every time someone opens it. Normally it wouldn't be a problem, but if you have a large database (usually caused by hundreds of thousands of products) and too many customers requesting pages at once, the store may slow down and even crash.

So, what changes if we enable full-page caching? When Multi-Vendor generates a page, the page is then saved to memory, i.e. cached. When other customers open the same page later, it is retrieved from memory, which is much faster than generating that page.

Therefore, no time is wasted on generating the same pages over and over again. That speeds up your store and reduces the load on the server.

To demonstrate the stamina of a properly configured Multi-Vendor store with full-page caching, we’re presenting a special highload demo and its test results:

We took a dedicated server with a quad-core Intel Core i7 processor and 64GB DDR4 RAM for €39/month, installed CS-Cart Multi-Vendor, and configured it for full-page caching. Then we imported 200,000 products with 11,000 features, arranged those products into 1,000 categories, and added product filters:

Installation

The add-on package is supposed to be set on the server where the Multi-Vendor is installed by your DevOps. We strongly recommend the installation to be handled by a technical specialist. Follow these instructions to configure the environment and set up the Marketplace Performance Booster module on your server.

If you need assistance with installing the Marketplace Performance Booster add-on, please note that this can be done as a part of the Webserver Configuration service provided by CS-Cart technical support team for extra charge. Our specialists can install Varnish caching server that is used by Marketplace Performance Booster add- on and configure your webserver environment to utilize it.