As Magento is such a large framework (currently well over 12,000 files in a fresh Magento CE 1.8 installation), the developers decided early on to introduce some basic features to help speed up the rendering time of its many pages. The simplest feature to implement on any Magento website is cache.
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Magento EE comes equipped with the Full Page Cache (FPC) module, which is a much improved version of the standard cache I'm about to show you. Magento released a whitepaper detailing the performance and scalability of EE 1.11 which contains a large section on FPC: goo.gl/R2WFkX.
To enable the Magento cache, we perform the following steps:
Navigate to System | Cache Management.
Click on Select All of our Cache Types option and choose Enable from the Actions drop-down menu.
Once we click on Submit, our cache should be enabled for all of the default Magento cache types. The resulting page should look similar to the following screenshot:
There is typically...