Posts tagged Performance

Spotting common challenges when you're doing performance tracing

Published on 05 February 2018 (Updated 06 February 2018)

I find myself doing quite a lot of work on performance for Sitecore websites at the moment. Whenever I do a similar job for a group of clients, I start to spot patterns in the sites I'm working on – and it struck me that there are some common performance issues that can be spotted just from the overview graphs you see when you collect trace data.

So to try and help you all improve the sites you ship, here are three that I've come across in a few projects recently:

Measure if you want to go faster!

Published on 02 October 2017 (Updated 19 August 2019)

I got the chance to speak at the Manchester Sitecore user group recently, introducing some tools and tricks that can be used to measure site performance while you're developing your Sitecore code. For anyone who wasn't there (and those who were but, want to refer back to what I said) here's a summary of the important bits of content from that talk...