The CMS Performance Tuning Guide is now available on the Sitecore Developer Network (SDN)!
This document is a collection of diagnostic procedures, tuning procedures, and Sitecore recommended practices for getting the optimal performance out of your Sitecore implementation.
A must read for anyone using Sitecore!
Web Performance Load Tester is a powerful and easy to use tool that will allow you to automate load testing and generate reports to help you analyze the performance of a web site.
The 10 virtual user version, which is full featured, is free to use and is ideal for identifying pages that exceed a threshold value for further investigation.
“The size of the average web page of the top 500 websites has more than quintupled since 2003. From 2003 to 2009 the average web page grew from 93.7K to over 507K (see Figure 1), over 5.4 times larger (Domenech et al. 2007, Flinn & Betcher 2008, Charzinsk 2010). During the same six-year period, the number of objects in the average web page more than doubled from 25.7 to 64.7 objects per page. Longer term statistics show that since 1995 the size of the average web page has increased by 35 times, and the number of objects per page has grown by 28 times.”- http://www.websiteoptimization.com/speed/tweak/average-web-page/
There is a lot of information that can be had by analyzing what takes place when a web page is loaded into a browser. Not only information about what is being requested, time to response, size of objects, etc., but also how the server is setup in terms of caching, compression, CDN usage, and keep-alive information.
This postings looks at using an open source plug-in, AOL Pagetest, along with how to interpret the results.
This is the final part to the series Sitecore Recommended Practices. In this posting Presentation, Page Editor, and Solution Code will be covered. These topics are not entirely related, but I thought I would combine them into a single posting to finish up the series.
As always, comments are welcome to help keep Recommended Practices current and dynamic. Thanks – Dan.
Copenhagen
Me
Espresso and a nice day
UK meets DK
Copenhagen from Sitecore rooftop
Helsingor
Motoring into Helsingor
Copenhagen from Sitecore rooftop
Castle Kornborg
Entrance to Helsignor harbour
Kornborg off the bow
Castle Kornborg
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Castle Kornborg
Nice day to sail
Up in the rigging
Life boat on a clean deck
Off the bow
Catching up
Sailing in Denmark
