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December 27th, 2011

Technology, Web Content Management

The following blog post is part of a series on Sitecore optimization from the forthcoming NavigationArts’ whitepaper entitled “Advanced Sitecore Performance Optimization”.  View more posts in this series here http://blog.navigationarts.com/tag/sitecore-optimization/.

Sitecore, like many “frying” CM systems, is fundamentally a dynamic database application, albeit with a thick layer of interface, API, and .NET coding between a programmer and the raw query data.  Indeed, SQL is often as much of a workhorse as the production web delivery servers, and most times, more.  For that reason, a developer has to be aware of the impact of retrieving data from the SQL Server on load times, and cognizant of other demands on the SQL server’s resources such as 3^rd party databases, maintenance plans, and whether configuration has been optimized.

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Alan Gallauresi

December 14th, 2011

Technology, Web Content Management

The following blog post is part of a series on Sitecore optimization from the forthcoming NavigationArts’ whitepaper entitled “Advanced Sitecore Performance Optimization”.  View more posts in this series here http://blog.navigationarts.com/tag/sitecore-optimization/.

Out of the box, Sitecore provides a host of tools for performance analysis from within and outside the Sitecore authoring environment.  Since a large percentage of the potential to improve site performance comes from the interaction of developer code with the Sitecore environment, the following tools are invaluable in determining slow elements and configuration issues.

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Alan Gallauresi

December 5th, 2011

Technology, Web Content Management

The following blog post is part of a series on Sitecore optimization from the forthcoming NavigationArts’ Whitepaper entitled “Advanced Sitecore Performance Optimization”.  You can view more blog  posts in this series here.

Optimization Goals

On the most fundamental level, site optimization is the tuning of any and all aspects of the website experience — code, configuration, applications, hardware, etc. — to be faster.  This almost always results from a change in the “default”, whether it is tweaking a cache size variable, changing how a developer is used for coding, or employing a technology beyond what is provided innately, like using a CDN.

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Alan Gallauresi