In eZ publish you can configure quite alot and you can tweak your sites performance by simple .ini file editing.

Charset conversion

eZ publish will automatically convert charsets between the different parts of the system. Database, templates, ini files etc are automatically converted if different charsets are used. However this conversion takes time. If you need to have charset conversion for some reason you should compile PHP with the mbstring extension, this will go alot faster than the built in conversion done in eZ publish.

If you don't need to do charset conversion you should make sure that eZ publish uses the same charset all over. The following settings/files should be the same.

site.ini:

[DatabaseSettings]

Charset=iso-8859-15

 

i18n.ini:

[CharacterSettings]

Charset=iso-8859-15

 

template.ini:

[CharsetSettings]

DefaultTemplateCharset=iso-8859-15

Disable workflow

Read workflows causes an overhead on your site. This can be disabled by removing read cache from the workflow.ini file.

If you remove the content_read workflow from OperationSettings you will get an performance improvement.

Recommended setting, if you don't need content read workflows.

[OperationSettings]

AvailableOperations=content_publish;shop_confirmorder;shop_checkout