I have developed a site that makes extensive use of flash. The client feels that Umbraco is responsible for the poor performance of the site.
My question is a fairly broad one but I am wanting to know what role (if any) Umbraco would have in serving a flash file sitting on the home page of the site and could it have any bearing on the performance of the site? And secondly is there anything that can be done to simply pass that task on to IIS without Umbraco being involved in the process (if it is).
AFAIK umbraco caches pretty well. As long as you have that on you shouldn't have a problem with load times as long as the server isn't a total dog.
Whenever I've had a problem with performance it's always been due to either
a. The site making a call to another site for info b. xslt scripts looping through unnecessarily long bits of data due to a bodge on my part. c. .Net code doing a lot of processing in the background.
None of these were faults of Umbraco itself.
To see what umbraco is doing when you load your flash page try using this url
This will give you a detailed breakdown, with timestamps, of everything umbraco does prior to sending the page to the browser. You can use it to see whats causing the bottleneck.
In short, the role umbraco plays in serving the flash file, is very very little, unless you're passing data to it from umbraco.
Umbraco role in serving pages
Hi All
I have developed a site that makes extensive use of flash. The client feels that Umbraco is responsible for the poor performance of the site.
My question is a fairly broad one but I am wanting to know what role (if any) Umbraco would have in serving a flash file sitting on the home page of the site and could it have any bearing on the performance of the site? And secondly is there anything that can be done to simply pass that task on to IIS without Umbraco being involved in the process (if it is).
Regards
Bradley
AFAIK umbraco caches pretty well. As long as you have that on you shouldn't have a problem with load times as long as the server isn't a total dog.
Whenever I've had a problem with performance it's always been due to either
a. The site making a call to another site for info
b. xslt scripts looping through unnecessarily long bits of data due to a bodge on my part.
c. .Net code doing a lot of processing in the background.
None of these were faults of Umbraco itself.
To see what umbraco is doing when you load your flash page try using this url
www.yoursite.com/index.html?umbDebugShowTrace=true
This will give you a detailed breakdown, with timestamps, of everything umbraco does prior to sending the page to the browser. You can use it to see whats causing the bottleneck.
In short, the role umbraco plays in serving the flash file, is very very little, unless you're passing data to it from umbraco.
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