This chapter explains one of the most important elements of Magento. From the early Magento days, performance has been a hard topic to cover. Many setups out there in the e-commerce world are performance-great, but most of the time, the majority are having issues. Magento 1 may not be the best performance platform out there.

However, now we have Magento 2, a brand new platform designed for performance. From the very first day, the main Magento developers focused on a better framework and the outcome is great. According to the latest information, Magento focused on a Google PageSpeed ranking of 90% or more.

In this chapter, we will dive in deeper on how to configure Redis caching and Memcached sessions. By default, Magento 2 supports Varnish, and we will manage all of the steps on how to set it up.

Serving the correct catalog or product images is very important, and will save lots of bandwidth on a desktop but most of all on a mobile device, which will have a better user experience.

As we mentioned in Chapter 1, Installing Magento 2 on Apache and NGINX, the new HTTP/2 protocol is a very new important element in the web server configuration. We will set up a full-force HTTP/2 configuration, including SSL.

For a high-demanding Magento 2 website serving customers all over the globe, we introduce CloudFlare, which is a CDN provider optimized for Magento.

Without performance testing, Magento 2 will not perform well. You will learn how to create a company-like profile, including websites, stores, catalogs, products, orders, and much more.