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Magento 2 - Build World-Class online stores

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  1. Cover
  2. Table of Contents
  3. Magento 2 - Build World-Class online stores
  4. Magento 2 - Build World-Class online stores
  5. Credits
  6. Preface
  7. 1. Module 1
  8. 1. Magento Fundamentals
  9. XAMPP installation
  10. Magento
  11. Summary
  12. 2. Magento 2.0 Features
  13. An introduction to the Magento order management system
  14. Magento 2.0 command-line configuration
  15. The command-line utility
  16. Summary
  17. 3. Working with Search Engine Optimization
  18. Store configuration
  19. SEO and searching
  20. SEO catalog configuration
  21. Google Analytics tracking code
  22. Optimizing Magento pages
  23. Summary
  24. 4. Magento 2.0 Theme Development – the Developers' Holy Grail
  25. Magento 2.0 theme structure
  26. The Magento Luma theme
  27. Magento theme inheritance
  28. CMS blocks and pages
  29. Custom variables
  30. Creating a basic Magento 2.0 theme
  31. Summary
  32. 5. Creating a Responsive Magento 2.0 Theme
  33. Composer – the PHP dependency manager
  34. Building the CompStore theme
  35. CSS preprocessing with LESS
  36. Applying new CSS to the CompStore theme
  37. Creating the CompStore logo
  38. Applying the theme
  39. Creating CompStore content
  40. Customizing Magento 2.0 templates
  41. Summary
  42. 6. Write Magento 2.0 Extensions – a Great Place to Go
  43. Using the Zend framework
  44. Magento 2.0 extension structure
  45. Developing your first Magento extension
  46. The Twitter REST API
  47. The TweetsAbout module structure
  48. Using TwitterOAuth to authenticate our extension
  49. Developing the module
  50. Summary
  51. 7. Go Mobile with Magento 2.0!
  52. Adjusting the CompStore theme for mobile devices
  53. The Magento 2.0 responsive design
  54. The Magento UI
  55. Implementing a new CSS mixin media query
  56. Adjusting tweets about extensions for mobile devices
  57. Summary
  58. 8. Speeding up Your Magento 2.0
  59. Indexing and caching Magento
  60. Indexing and re-indexing data
  61. The Magento cron job
  62. Caching
  63. Fine-tuning the Magento hosting server
  64. Selecting the right Magento hosting service
  65. Apache web server deflation
  66. Enabling the expires header
  67. Minifying scripts
  68. Summary
  69. 9. Improving Your Magento Skills
  70. Magento knowledge center
  71. Improving your Magento skills
  72. Summary
  73. 2. Module 2
  74. 1. Magento 2 System Tools
  75. Installing Magento 2 sample data via GUI
  76. Installing Magento 2 sample data via the command line
  77. Managing Magento 2 indexes via the command line
  78. Managing Magento 2 cache via the command line
  79. Managing Magento 2 backup via the command line
  80. Managing Magento 2 set mode (MAGE_MODE)
  81. Transferring your Magento 1 database to Magento 2
  82. 2. Enabling Performance in Magento 2
  83. Configuring Redis for backend cache
  84. Configuring Memcached for session caching
  85. Configuring Varnish as the Full Page Cache
  86. Configuring Magento 2 with CloudFlare
  87. Configuring optimized images in Magento 2
  88. Configuring Magento 2 with HTTP/2
  89. Configuring Magento 2 performance testing
  90. 3. Creating Catalogs and Categories
  91. Create a Root Catalog
  92. Create subcategories
  93. Manage attribute sets
  94. Create products
  95. Manage products in a catalog grid
  96. 4. Managing Your Store
  97. Creating shipping and tax rules
  98. Managing customer groups
  99. Configuring inventories
  100. Configuring currency rates
  101. Managing advanced pricing
  102. 5. Creating Magento 2 Extensions – the Basics
  103. Initializing extension basics
  104. Working with database models
  105. Creating tables using setup scripts
  106. Creating a web route and controller to display data
  107. Creating system configuration fields
  108. Creating a backend data grid
  109. Creating a backend form to add/edit data
  110. 6. Creating Magento 2 Extensions – Advanced
  111. Using dependency injection to pass classes to your own class
  112. Modifying functions with the use of plugins – Interception
  113. Creating your own XML module configuration file
  114. Creating your own product type
  115. Working with service layers/contracts
  116. Creating a Magento CLI command option
  117. 3. Module 3
  118. 1. Planning for Magento
  119. Technical considerations
  120. Global-Website-Store methodology
  121. Planning for multiple stores
  122. Summary
  123. 2. Managing Products
  124. Managing products the customer focused way
  125. Creating products
  126. Managing inventory
  127. Pricing tools
  128. Autosettings
  129. Related products, up-sells, and cross-sells
  130. Importing products
  131. Summary
  132. 3. Designs and Themes
  133. The concept of theme inheritance
  134. Default installation of design packages and themes
  135. Installing third-party themes
  136. Inline translations
  137. Working with theme variants
  138. Customizing themes
  139. Customizing layouts
  140. Summary
  141. 4. Configuring to Sell
  142. Payment methods
  143. Shipping methods
  144. Managing taxes
  145. Transactional e-mails
  146. Summary
  147. 5. Managing Non-Product Content
  148. Summary
  149. 6. Marketing Tools
  150. Promotions
  151. Newsletters
  152. Using sitemaps
  153. Optimizing for search engines
  154. Summary
  155. 7. Extending Magento
  156. The new Magento module architecture
  157. Extending Magento functionality with Magento plugins
  158. Building your own extensions
  159. Summary
  160. 8. Optimizing Magento
  161. Indexing and caching
  162. Caching in Magento 2 – not just FPC
  163. Tuning your server for speed
  164. Summary
  165. 9. Advanced Techniques
  166. Version control
  167. Magento cron
  168. Backing up your database
  169. Upgrading Magento
  170. Summary
  171. 10. Pre-Launch Checklist
  172. System configurations
  173. Design configurations
  174. Search engine optimization
  175. Sales configurations
  176. Product configurations
  177. Maintenance configurations
  178. Summary
  179. Index

Configuring Magento 2 performance testing

Performance, performance, performance! This may be one of the most used words in the Magento 1 period. Every Magento website benefits from a great performing platform, and every customer loves it.

However, before we can create a great performing website, all sorts of elements have to be conquered. One of the missing elements in Magento 1 was creating sample data based on a company profile. As every Magento website is unique, so is performance testing based on their profile. Some companies have only one website, store catalog, and store view. Others have 800 websites and are converting one million orders per day.

Magento 2 now provides us with the option to run a profile that creates sample data based on your company profile. By default, there are four sample data profiles. Depending on the profile, creating the sample data may take a long time, so keep this in mind.

After creating the sample data based on your profile, you can start doing performance-based testing. Based on this profile, you may need to scale up or tune one of the components before going into production.

Getting ready

For this recipe, we will use a Droplet created in Chapter 1, Magento 2 System Tools, at DigitalOcean, https://www.digitalocean.com/. We will be using NGINX, PHP-FPM, and a Composer-based setup including Magento 2 (without sample data). No other prerequisites are required.

How to do it…

For the purpose of this recipe, let's assume that we need to run a Magento 2 performance test. The following steps will guide you through this:

  1. Before we can start generating a profile, we need a clean setup. Run the following command to start with a clean Magento 2 instance:
    rm -rf * /var/www/html
composer create-project --repository-url=https://repo.magento.com/ magento/project-community-edition /var/www/html --prefer-dist
chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/html
  2. Now let's install Magento 2 without sample data. Run the following command. We will be using the same procedure as we used in Installing Magento 2 sample data via the command line recipe of Chapter 1, Magento 2 System Tools:
    bin/magento setup:install \
        --db-host=localhost \
        --db-name=<your-db-name> \
        --db-user="<db-user>" \
        --db-password="<db-password>" \
        --backend-frontname=<admin-path> \
        --base-url=http://yourdomain.com/ \
        --admin-lastname=<your-lastname> \
        --admin-firstname=<your-firstname> \
        --admin-email=<your-email> \
        --admin-user=<your-admin-user> \
        --admin-password=<your-password> \--use-rewrites=1 \
        --cleanup-database \
  3. After completing the install via the shell, we need to compile our code before we can start using it. Run the following command on the shell:
    php bin/magento setup:di:compile-multi-tenant
chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/html
  4. Check in your browser whether everything is working correctly before starting the small data profile. We use the small data profile because it does not take too long to run. Run the following command:
    php bin/magento setup:perf:generate-fixtures /var/www/html/setup/performance-toolkit/profiles/ce/small.xml
  5. All data profiles are located in the setup/performance-toolkit/profiles/ directory. Depending on whether you are running CE or EE, you need to choose one of the subdirectories.
  6. Depending on the profile that you ran, the output looks as follows:
    How to do it…
  7. Now you can open a browser and surf to yourdomain.com, and check whether everything is correct. You can also log in to the backend of your Magento website and check all the created settings.
  8. Congratulations, you just finished creating profiles for performance testing with Magento 2. Now you can choose your favorite performance test tool and test your server:
    How to do it…

How it works…

Let's recap and find out what we did throughout this recipe. In steps 1 through 8, we created sample data to test the performance of the Magento 2 website.

In steps 1 and 2, we started with a clean Magento 2 setup using Composer and bin/magento setup:install.

In step 3, we needed to compile our Magento code base before we could input the sample data.

In step 4, we ran a generated fixture profile using the bin/magento setup:perf option. Depending on the profile, Magento will start creating all of the required data. Running a large profile set can take up to several hours. Adjusting the profile is self-explanatory.

There's more…

If the default profile does not fit your needs, you can create a custom profile. For example, copy the small.xml file to mycustom.xml in the same directory and open the file in your favorite editor. Run the following command on the shell:

cd /var/www/html/setup/performance-toolkit/profiles/ce/small.xml
cp small.xml mycustom.xml
vi mycustom.xml

Now you can change data such as websites, store_groups, store_views, simple_products, configurable_products, categories, categories_nesting_level, catalog_price_rules, catalog_target_rules, cart_price_rules, cart_price_rules_floor, customers, tax_rates_file, and orders:

There's more…

Save your file, and use the following command:

Esc + :wq

Before we start, you need to check whether your setup is clean. Otherwise, start with step 1 of the recipe.

Now we can run the mycustom.xml file with the following command:

php bin/magento setup:perf:generate-fixtures /var/www/html/setup/performance-toolkit/profiles/ce/mycustom.xml

Tip

Running the profile can take some time. Be aware to adjust your server setup accordingly. An extra large profile can take up to a couple of hours to create.