LSCS/LSDS Performance

rupinder555

Would be great if some of you could share your experience/lessons learnt while implementing a LiveSite model for Medium to High traffic sites.

I am specifically looking for data around LSCS/LSDS performance with heavy content sites and with about 10,000 or more hits per day.

Thanks in advance!!

Rick Poulin

Cache as many components as you can using "cache until published" so long as the content is static. Components whose contents rely on external data should cache 1 minute at a minimum, so you don't have to fetch and recompute the data for every single request. Make sure your externals are as efficient as possible and properly structured. If you're doing I/O or other expensive operations, always do some extra caching on those objects in your externals, and carry objects reused by multiple components in the request attributes.

As for the front-end, regular (non-LiveSite specific) rules apply w.r.t. minimizing JS/CSS, using sprites when possible, etc. Use a browser plugin like YSlow to get suggestions about what you can do better.