Prestashop poor performance :( centminmod / prestashop

Here testing prestashop on a VM (4 vcore) (xeon e3-1230) since my dedicated server, 2048 RAM, SATA raid1 on centminmod latest version (server hosted in France)

Centos 6.6
PrestaShop 1.6.1.0 (https SPDY ...) + pagespeed 1.9 + concat page speed
nginx / 1.9.2
PHP 5.5.27
MariaDB MySQL-10.0.20
PrestaShop:
Smarty: cache yes
cache: file system
CCC: ON
Cache: Yes memcached is 127.0.0.1:11211

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Gt Metrix (UK): Page Load Time 5.2S, speed score page: A (92%) YSlow score C (75%)
PageSpeed insights: desktop: 81/100, mobile: 65/100
WebPagetest: PageSpeed 1.12 Score: 92/100 load time : 9.47s first byte : 6.62 start render 8.1 speed index 8100 dom elements : 2604 document complete : 9.47

Performance is bad

I do not understand: - /
Filters
ah Add Head
cc Combine Css
jc Combine Javascript
gp Convert Gif to Png
jp Convert Jpeg to Progressive
jw Convert Jpeg To Webp
mc Convert Meta Tags
pj Convert Png to Jpeg
ec Cache Extend Css
ei Cache Extend Images
es Cache Extend Scripts
fc Fallback Rewrite Css
if Flatten CSS Imports
hw Flushes html
ci Inline Css
ii Inline Images
il Inline @import to Link
ji Inline Javascript
js Jpeg Subsampling
rj Recompress Jpeg
rp Recompress Png
rw Recompress Webp
ri Resize Images
cf Rewrite Css
jm Rewrite External Javascript
jj Rewrite Inline Javascript
cu Rewrite Style Attributes With Url
cp Strip Image Color Profiles
md Strip Image Meta Data

 

Code:

# redirect from non-www to www
# uncomment, save file and restart Nginx to enable
server {
  listen  80;
  server_name xx.xx.fr;
  rewrite ^ https://$host$request_uri? permanent;
       #return 302 https://$server_name$request_uri;
  }

server {

  listen 443 ssl spdy;
 
     server_name xx.xx.fr;
     root /home/nginx/domains/xx.xx.fr/public;
   
   
     access_log /home/nginx/domains/xx.xx.fr/log/access.log combined buffer=32k;
     error_log /home/nginx/domains/xx.xx.fr/log/error.log;
     
     
     ssl_dhparam /usr/local/nginx/conf/ssl/xx.xx.fr/dhparam.pem;
     ssl_certificate /usr/local/nginx/conf/ssl/xx.xx.fr/xx_fr-unified.crt;
     ssl_certificate_key /usr/local/nginx/conf/ssl/xx.xx.fr/xx_fr.key;

   ssl_protocols TLSv1 TLSv1.1 TLSv1.2;
  ssl_session_cache  shared:SSL:10m;
  ssl_session_timeout  10m;
  ssl_ciphers ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:DHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:DHE-DSS-AES128-GCM-SHA256:kEDH+AESGCM:ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA256:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-SHA256:ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-SHA:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA384:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-SHA384:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-SHA:DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA256:DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA:DHE-DSS-AES128-SHA256:DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA256:DHE-DSS-AES256-SHA:DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA:AES128-GCM-SHA256:AES256-GCM-SHA384:AES128-SHA256:AES256-SHA256:AES128-SHA:AES256-SHA:AES:CAMELLIA:DES-CBC3-SHA:!aNULL:!eNULL:!EXPORT:!DES:!RC4:!MD5:!PSK:!aECDH:!EDH-DSS-DES-CBC3-SHA:!EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA:!KRB5-DES-CBC3-SHA:!CAMELLIA;
  ssl_prefer_server_ciphers  on;
     add_header Alternate-Protocol  443:npn-spdy/3;
  add_header Strict-Transport-Security "max-age=31536000";
 
 
   # enable ocsp stapling
  resolver 8.8.8.8;
  ssl_stapling on;
  ssl_stapling_verify on;
  ssl_trusted_certificate /usr/local/nginx/conf/ssl/xx.xx.fr/ssl-trusted.crt;
 
   # Try static files first, then php 
   

   #Specify a charset
     index index.html index.htm index.php;
     charset utf-8;
     rewrite ^/api/?(.*)$ /webservice/dispatcher.php?url=$1 last;
  rewrite ^/([0-9])(\-[_a-zA-Z0-9-]*)?(-[0-9]+)?/.+\.jpg$ /img/p/$1/$1$2$3.jpg last;
  rewrite ^/([0-9])([0-9])(\-[_a-zA-Z0-9-]*)?(-[0-9]+)?/.+\.jpg$ /img/p/$1/$2/$1$2$3$4.jpg last;
  rewrite ^/([0-9])([0-9])([0-9])(\-[_a-zA-Z0-9-]*)?(-[0-9]+)?/.+\.jpg$ /img/p/$1/$2/$3/$1$2$3$4$5.jpg last;
  rewrite ^/([0-9])([0-9])([0-9])([0-9])(\-[_a-zA-Z0-9-]*)?(-[0-9]+)?/.+\.jpg$ /img/p/$1/$2/$3/$4/$1$2$3$4$5$6.jpg last;
  rewrite ^/([0-9])([0-9])([0-9])([0-9])([0-9])(\-[_a-zA-Z0-9-]*)?(-[0-9]+)?/.+\.jpg$ /img/p/$1/$2/$3/$4/$5/$1$2$3$4$5$6$7.jpg last;
  rewrite ^/([0-9])([0-9])([0-9])([0-9])([0-9])([0-9])(\-[_a-zA-Z0-9-]*)?(-[0-9]+)?/.+\.jpg$ /img/p/$1/$2/$3/$4/$5/$6/$1$2$3$4$5$6$7$8.jpg last;
  rewrite ^/([0-9])([0-9])([0-9])([0-9])([0-9])([0-9])([0-9])(\-[_a-zA-Z0-9-]*)?(-[0-9]+)?/.+\.jpg$ /img/p/$1/$2/$3/$4/$5/$6/$7/$1$2$3$4$5$6$7$8$9.jpg last;
  rewrite ^/([0-9])([0-9])([0-9])([0-9])([0-9])([0-9])([0-9])([0-9])(\-[_a-zA-Z0-9-]*)?(-[0-9]+)?/.+\.jpg$ /img/p/$1/$2/$3/$4/$5/$6/$7/$8/$1$2$3$4$5$6$7$8$9$10.jpg last;
  rewrite ^/c/([0-9]+)(\-[\.*_a-zA-Z0-9-]*)(-[0-9]+)?/.+\.jpg$ /img/c/$1$2$3.jpg last;
  rewrite ^/c/([a-zA-Z_-]+)(-[0-9]+)?/.+\.jpg$ /img/c/$1$2.jpg last;
  rewrite ^/images_ie/?([^/]+)\.(jpe?g|png|gif)$ /js/jquery/plugins/fancybox/images/$1.$2 last;
     rewrite ^/order$ /index.php?controller=order last;
 
       
     if (!-e $request_filename){
  rewrite ^(.*)$ /index.php last;
     } 
 
   
     location / {
     try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?q=$uri&$args;
   

  }

     location /c {
  rewrite ^/c/([0-9]+)(\-[\.*_a-zA-Z0-9-]*)(-[0-9]+)?/.+\.jpg$ /img/p/$1$2$3.jpg last;
  rewrite ^/c/([a-zA-Z_-]+)(-[0-9]+)?/.+\.jpg$ /img/p/$1$2.jpg last;
  }

     location /p {
  rewrite ^/p/([0-9]+)(\-[\.*_a-zA-Z0-9-]*)(-[0-9]+)?/.+\.jpg$ /img/p/$1$2$3.jpg last;
  rewrite ^/p/([a-zA-Z_-]+)(-[0-9]+)?/.+\.jpg$ /img/p/$1$2.jpg last;
  }

     location /images_ie {
  rewrite ^/images_ie/?([^/]+)\.(jpe?g|png|gif)$ /js/jquery/plugins/fancybox/images/$1.$2 last;
  }

     # Don't log robots.txt or favicon.ico files
     location ~* ^/(favicon.ico|robots.txt)$ {
   access_log off;
   log_not_found off;
  }
     # Custom 404 page
   error_page 404 /index.php?controller=404;

     # Deny access to .htaccess
     location ~ /\.ht {
   deny all;
  }

     # Block everything else in these directories
     #location ~ ^/img/cms/ {
   #deny all;
  #}

     # Block everything else in these directories
     location ~ ^/(adminxx/backups|adminxx/export|adminxx/import|adminxx/tabs|classes|config|docs|download|localization|log|override|tools|translations)/ {
   deny all;
  }

     # Block all files with these extensions
     location ~ \.(md|tpl)$ {
   deny all;
 
  }
     # Directories explicitly allowed in directories blocked below
     location ~ ^/docs/csv_import/ {
   allow all;
   }
 
   #CONCAT CSS
   location /css {
  concat on;
  concat_max_files 20;
   add_header Pragma public;
   add_header Cache-Control "public, must-revalidate, proxy-revalidate";
   access_log off;
   expires 30d;
  }
 
   #CONCAT JS
   location /js {
  concat on;
  concat_max_files 20;
   add_header Pragma private;
   add_header Cache-Control "private, must-revalidate, proxy-revalidate";
   access_log off;
   expires 30d;
  }

   location /home/nginx/domains/xx.xx.fr/public {
  location ~*\.(jpg|jpeg|gif|png|js|css)$ {
  add_header Cache-Control"public, max-age=600";
  }
}

  include /usr/local/nginx/conf/staticfiles.conf;
  include /usr/local/nginx/conf/php.conf;
  include /usr/local/nginx/conf/drop.conf;
  #include /usr/local/nginx/conf/errorpage.conf;
  #ngx_pagespeed & ngx_pagespeed handler
  include /usr/local/nginx/conf/pagespeed.conf;
  include /usr/local/nginx/conf/pagespeedhandler.conf;
  include /usr/local/nginx/conf/pagespeedstatslog.conf;

 

Hi eva2000

Test in Paris web server from webpagetest

WebPagetest Test Result - Paris : boutique...0889296167938.html - 07/17/15 10:50:36

 

Yes indeed, I will reduce it

 

WebPagetest Test Result - Paris : boutique...0889296119838.html - 07/17/15 11:17:09

the "first time byte" is very high