oh and i'd think 300-400ms or less spent inside the rails process would be sufficient for all but the most performance critical applications since your web server should be able to serve the rest of your page (static assets, css, js) in less than 100ms
On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 6:49 PM, john muhl <johnm...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 <roblevinten...@gmail.com> 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: Radiant@radiantcms.org >> Search: http://radiantcms.org/mailing-list/search/ >> Site: http://lists.radiantcms.org/mailman/listinfo/radiant >> > _______________________________________________ Radiant mailing list Post: Radiant@radiantcms.org Search: http://radiantcms.org/mailing-list/search/ Site: http://lists.radiantcms.org/mailman/listinfo/radiant
