Author Archives: Dan Brown

Sitecore CMS Performance Tuning Guide

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 … Continue reading

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Using Web Performance Load Tester

  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 … Continue reading

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Using AOL Pagetest browser plug-in to investigate page performance

“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 … Continue reading

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Sitecore Recommended Practices – part 6 (Presentation,Page Editor, and Solution Code)

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 … Continue reading

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