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Sitecore Cookbook for Developers

By : Yogesh Patel
Book Image

Sitecore Cookbook for Developers

By: Yogesh Patel

Overview of this book

This book will get you started on building rich websites, and customizing user interfaces by creating content management applications quickly. It will give you an insight into web designs and how to customize the Sitecore architecture as per your website's requirements using best practices. Packed with over 70 recipes to help you achieve and solve real-world common tasks, requirements, and the problems of content management, content delivery, and publishing instance environments. It also presents recipes on Sitecore’s backend processes of customizing pipelines, creating custom event handler and media handler, setting hooks and more. Other topics covered include creating a workflow action, publishing sublayouts and media files, securing your environment by customizing user profiles and access rights, boosting search capabilities, optimising performance, scalability and high-availability of Sitecore instances and much more. By the end of this book, you will have be able to add virtually limitless features to your websites by developing and deploying Sitecore efficiently.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Sitecore Cookbook for Developers
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Profiling and tracing content pages to find out the slowest operations


Tracking the performance of Sitecore pages can be crucial in diagnosing website performance issues. It's really important to troubleshoot the slowest renderings, sublayouts, custom pipelines, or processors to improve website performance.

In this recipe, you will learn the profiling of your renderings or sublayouts and tracing events that occur in building the Sitecore page within the content authoring environment. You will also learn how to trace custom actions as well.

Getting ready

For this recipe, you need a working content page with a few renderings or sublayouts used in it.

How to do it…

  1. Open the Experience Editor and navigate to any content page of your site. From the ribbon, select the Other button in the Mode group from the Home tab. Click on Debug from the menu, as shown in the following image:

  2. You will find two extra sections loaded below the content page, Sitecore Profile and Sitecore Trace. You can enable or disable...