Sitecore Docs - Tech Tips by GS

Hi, So our content authors and testers started reporting that they are getting more and more Page Unresponsive Error dialog appear while working on CM server. They also reported that there were often long waits during edit and save operations. So, I started investigating this and jumped into Sitecore logs to dig out the root cause. I had interesting observations - Created pages in Experience editor and did not encounter any issues during normal editing actions. Created a copy of medium sized folder in site (e.g. /sitecore/content/<SiteName>/<Test Folder Path> and recycled it later. On both the actions, Page Unresponsive error was reproducible and all subsequent requests from Sitecore client kept waiting. This confirmed a large copy/delete/publish operation consumes most of the resources available for SQL operations and other users get blocked. Analyzed the logs for last few weeks and found that the following activities happened a...

High performance for any digital platform is elementary. In this post, I will address some basics around Sitecore caching and some best practices that Sitecore developers/architects can follow to boost the performance of Sitecore solution. While working with one of our clients, content authors started complaining about the page load time in experience editor. The environment was Azure IaaS. So, we started looking at all the performance tweaks we could apply. Sitecore Cache Tuning Performance and cache go hand-in-hand :D  So first thing we wanted to explore was Sitecore caching especially the cache sizes.  I assume the readers are already aware about Sitecore caches and  how to configure them . We used the showconfig.aspx (https://<my sitecore hostname>/sitecore/admin/showconfig.aspx ) and looked especially for Sitecore's prefetch, items and data cache sizes. So, how do we  know if the cache sizes are sufficient for our application? First, you need to open Cache...