some things that come to mind immediately: - make sure you are not serving css and/or js from radiant - make sure you have mod_deflate setup up to compress all text files - avoid excessive use of page parts - avoid using paperclipped or page_attachments for design assets (like your logo or icons or things that don't need to be managed by your content editors)
On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 6:20 PM, Rob Levin <[email protected]> wrote: > I've just started working at a place that is using Radiant for it's web site > and I've noticed our general pages are usually somewhere around 150kb and > take, on my system, around 800ms. FWIW, just now dslreports showed my > download speed (on my client box) avg at around 5000Kb. > > Since it's a small start-up I'm going to be the one to further "tune" site's > performance. That being said, I'm not a sysadmin nor do I have experience in > this sort of thing (disclaimer). We are using Radiant version 0.8.1 with > Apache/2.0.52 (Red Hat) Server on RH4 (don't ask) and using Passenger with > ruby enterprise edition: 1.8.6 (2008-08-11 patchlevel 287) Ruby Enterprise > Edition 20090610. We have our own dev server but for production we're using > server beach. > > Looking at our Radiant instance's /config/environment.rb file I noticed the > following line so it looks like Radiant caching is on right? > config.middleware.use ::Radiant::Cache > > So my questions are: What would be a checklist of things that may be > degrading our site's performance? Besides generally reducing http calls and > sizes, what Radiant specific stuff can I do to speed things up? Even links > to relevant Radiant docs would be helpful. What would be a good time per > size metric to shoot for? Thanks all! > _______________________________________________ > Radiant mailing list > Post: [email protected] > Search: http://radiantcms.org/mailing-list/search/ > Site: http://lists.radiantcms.org/mailman/listinfo/radiant > _______________________________________________ Radiant mailing list Post: [email protected] Search: http://radiantcms.org/mailing-list/search/ Site: http://lists.radiantcms.org/mailman/listinfo/radiant
