I was doing some benchmarking and performance analyzing on servers running WordPress and TYPO3 websites and the result was not than good actually. My setup could use quite a bit of website optimization to get the pages loaded faster.

So. How do one find extra performance, without buying new expensive hardware. One way could to experiment with caching options. The eAccelerator software is highly recommend for TYPO3 setup, so I did some testing with this and there was quite a bit of performance hidden here.

The installation was quite simple on my setup. I followed the installlation guide which was more or less a set of commands. phpize, configure, make, make install and the copy the .ini file to the PHP ini directory. Reload apache/php and that’s it. All done.

If the website is running TYPO3 and there still are performance issues, then you should check that the configuration of the site and server, uses the internal caching mechanism found in TYPO3. If this is not disable (from an extension or something else) there will most likely be major performance boost waiting here. This is the typical bottle neck in TYPO3 and it should be considered carefully, as this optimized the performance of TYPO3.