Increasing performance with CCC in PrestaShop 1.5

In addition to the Smarty caching, our next step for improving performance is to enable the CCC (Combine, Compress, and Cach) feature. This tackles several settings designed to improve the load time of your shop’s theme pages.

Enabling CCC (Combine, Compress, and Cache) for performance in PrestaShop 1.5

  1. Log into your PrestaShop 1.5 dashboard.
  2. Using the top menu bar, hover over the Advanced Preferences tab and select the Performance option.
  3. From this page, find the CCC (Combine, Compress and Cache)section, located about halfway down the page. There are several fields to consider in this section.
    Smart Cache for CSSselect Use CCC for CSS
    Smart Cache for JavaScriptselect Use CCC for Javascript
    Minify HTMLselect Minify HTML after “smarty compile” execution
    Compress inline JavaScript in HTMLselect Compress inline JavaScript in HTML after “smarty compile” execution
    High risk HTML Compressionselect Keep W3C validation
    Apache Optimizationselect the green checkmark

    configure ccc2

  4. Once you have selected your settings, select the green Save button located in the upper right corner of the screen to save the configuration.

Please check the next article on setting the ciphering settings. If you missed our previous article on enabling caching for Smarty, please see the tutorial. For more information on this course please visit Increasing Store Performance in PrestaShop 1.5.

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