How do you optimize the performance of a Shopware shop?

Shopware CE brings platform-specific performance challenges: Elasticsearch configuration for fast product and faceted search, HTTP cache warming for frequently accessed category and product pages, optimization of Twig templates for minimal render times and configuration of the Varnish cache as a reverse proxy. Additionally, there are shop-typical aspects such as the number of loaded plugins, image variant generation and database performance with large catalogs. On our dedicated Shopware performance page, we cover these topics in detail.