Best Practices: Scalability and Performance of the Sitecore Content Management System (CMS)

Sitecore is an ideal content management system for the mid-market – it's easy to use and relatively straightforward to implement. But, as is the case with all CMS products, you will have to make a series of informed decisions during implementation.

This Sitecore best practices document outlines a thorough framework for optimizing Sitecore to meet your organization’s particular business needs, including:

• Defining comprehensive performance requirements
• Deciding on hardware and network topology for Sitecore
• Formulating optimal content structures
• Defining sorting behaviours
• Caching best practices, with sample configuration coding for browser-level, site-level and database-level caching
• Leveraging code profilers, stress testing and Sitecore’s Debugger
• Monitoring and adjusting your configuration of Sitecore to continually improve performance

Drawing from real-world implementations of the Sitecore CMS, non~linear creations is pleased to share our “lessons learned” while working with this effective, dynamic content management product.