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Website performance is critical to all our clients at Carbon Six Digital, and we work hard to simulate and monitor real world performance during development, then we setup monitoring tools to make sure that we maintain great performance in production. In this article on monitoring website performance for Umbraco HQ our Technical Project Manager Alex discusses some of the tools and techniques we use to ensure that websites we build are highly performant, and stay that way.…

When poor performance and a lack of scalability impacted the delivery of a marketing led digital campaign for a major financial services client their agency turned to Carbon Six Digital for help. How Carbon Six Digital Offered a Solution  Carbon Six Digital’s intervention stabilised the project preventing further delays to the project, and ensured that the final system met the end-client’s quality criteria and passed all security penetration testing. The code developed as part of this project has since gone on to be used on a number of future projects where the client agency were engaged by the financial services…

This article is part of a series on Performance Tuning Umbraco -- Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 Performance is so important for the success of your site, and with Umbraco you have a number of levers to pull to optimise the performance of your site. Over the last 2 weeks we’ve written about how to squeeze better performance out of your Umbraco site, covering in Part 1 image and css/javascript optimisation and in Part 2 caching and database tracing and tuning. In this final part we look at stress testing tools and tuning infrastructure performance. Use a…

This article is part of a series on Performance Tuning Umbraco -- Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 Last week we started a series of posts about performance tuning Umbraco sites, where we discussed Image Optimisation, Client Dependency Framework, Mini-Profiler and implementing caching.  In this article we’ll look at the relative performance of @Html.RenderTemplate and @Html.Partial, and also look at database profiling and tuning. Consider using @Html.Partial() rather than @Html.RenderTemplate In a previous Umbraco project we had a scenario where we had a shop page and needed to iterate over a collection of products, data of which were…

This article is part of a series on Performance Tuning Umbraco -- Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 Site performance is always a critical factor when building a new web project. Site speed has, for a long time, been a critical ranking factor for Google. So how do you go about tuning performance of an Umbraco site? In this series of blog posts we look at different ways of optimising Umbraco site performance. Image optimisation Many sites fail to effectively use images.  Fat bloaty images that are resized on the fly by the browser or which haven’t been…