A profitable website - is not just a beautiful picture and useful content. Page loading speed and stability in work are also very important. This indicator can be affected by the volume of traffic, complex resource-intensive functionality and high load on the database or storage. It is necessary to make the resource work even when thousands of users visit it per second. Such highly loaded sites (high-load) require a special approach within development.
According to statistics, 1 second of loading reduces website conversion by 7%. Just imagine how many potential buyers you will lose if the pages load a long time? To avoid this, it is necessary to make the project resistant to high loads.
Why do you need to create high-load projects
If the site is not prepared for high loads, this leads to the following consequences:
- Pages open slowly or do not load at all;
- Images are not displayed in full;
- Video slows down when playing or does not turn on;
- Random errors occur;
- The connection to the server is terminated.
Especially often, such failures happen on the most “selling” days, for example, during seasonal discounts or on Black Friday, when promotions are held or the new products sales start. This significantly affects profits, and in a negative way, the audience becomes less loyal.
If you have a resource that often gives errors and cannot withstand the “onslaught” of visitors, you need to think about creating a new project that will initially be adapted to high loads. Such resources, for example, high-load stores, will work stably, and the client will not have to worry while his order is being processed. Accordingly, the next time for a purchase, he will again choose this reliable site.
Also, those who are just planning a large project should think about the development of high-load sites. Otherwise, the resource simply will not withstand a lot of visitors or orders. This is extremely important for those who want to become a market leader.
Features of a highly loaded system
Such systems have several basic qualities that distinguish them from simple sites:
- Huge audience reaching hundreds of thousands of people.
- Scalability and cluster architecture, which allows you to process many requests.
- Positive dynamics, in other words - audience growth. The more popular the site becomes, the higher the load on it.
- Instant system response to user request.
- The scalability of the resource for growing needs.
Trading platforms with large databases, a wide range of products, and frequent updates of positions and prices can be considered as highly loaded. The corporate portal is also a highly loaded site. The development of such resources is carried out according to a certain principle - division of the system. The load analysis is carried out and the areas most susceptible to it are determined.
Then they are divided into separate blocks, their optimization is carried out and the issue of available resources is resolved. Often, separate servers are allocated for the most highly loaded nodes. For example, if the database is under heavy load, it is logical to move it to a separate server, which will allow to distribute the load and improve overall performance.
What is needed for the successful implementation of a high-load project? First, the system must be able to scale as needed. Secondly, it is necessary to ensure the fault tolerance of the system. A large number of servers increases the probability of individual elements failure, such as a hard drive. To avoid this, it is necessary to back up and use raid arrays of hard drives.
The Bitrix management system - is the best solution for high-load projects. You will get a high-performance system, which is proven by load testing. This CMS allows you to create web projects of any complexity due to its versatility, reliability and performance. It also provides wide functionality and increased security. You can order the development of such resources at the full cycle digital-agency RIVERIT. We design and implement scalable and fault-tolerant high-load systems on Bitrix.
