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Kentico CMSUtility for

Improved Site Performance
By Sathish Potta
February 02, 2015

RAY BUSINESS TECHNOLOGIES PVT LTD

Kentico CMSUtility for Improved Site Performance

You may have noticed that when a Kentico site is deployed on to a server, when we browse
the site pages for the first time, it takes much time to load the pages. Once it is cached at
server side, then the performance of pages improves.

Solution
The solution to avoid the above problem would be; if we can visit all the pages with-in the site then
server side cache will be generated and performance of the pages will improve. If we have only a few
number of pages we can do it easily. But, if we have large number of pages then visiting all the pages
may become a difficult task for the client. In order to avoid this kind of problems we need to automate
the visiting of all pages using a program/tool.
We have created a CMSUtility program/tool to visit all the pages with-in the site using casperJS.
CasperJS is an open source navigation scripting & testing utility written in Javascript for the PhantomJS
WebKit headless browser and SlimerJS (Gecko). It eases the process of defining a full navigation scenario
and provides useful high-level functions, methods & syntactic sugar for doing common tasks such as:

defining & ordering browsing navigation steps

filling & submitting forms
clicking & following links
capturing screenshots of a page (or part of it)
testing remote DOM
logging events
downloading resources, including binary ones
writing functional test suites, saving results as JUnit XML
scraping Web contents

Design:
Use casperJS to read the sitemap.xml of the site. casperJS runs on the PhantomJS environment.

For each page listed in the sitemap.xml, do a GET request for the page.

This will make the server cache the page for faster response for subsequent requests.

The tool will maintain a log for all the pages with-in the site.

The tool would maintain a log of the pages visited and its status including reponse time, in the
local directory where the tool is run from.

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Kentico CMSUtility for Improved Site Performance

Example: www.raybiztech.com/blog

For the first time it took 10.54s to load the page.

We've browsed the site and it cached at server side. After server side caching it took 4.31s to
load the page.

After browser caching it took 1.26s to load the page to load the page.

After Running Utility tool/program it took 4.32s

After browser caching it took 824ms to load the site

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http://casperjs.org/
http://phantomjs.org/
https://code.google.com/p/phantomjs/wiki/PhantomJS

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Kentico CMSUtility for Improved Site Performance

About Ray Business Technologies Pvt Ltd

Ray Business Technologies Pvt Ltd, www.raybiztech.com, is a global Information Technology (IT) Services and
Solutions company. Raybiztech offers comprehensive end-to-end IT Services for Business Application Development
& Maintenance, Enterprise Solutions, Testing & Quality Assurance, Embedded Systems, Cloud Computing and IT
Infrastructure Management to organizations in the Banking & Financial Services, Insurance & Healthcare, Life
Sciences, Manufacturing, Retail, Distribution & Logistics, Media & Entertainment, Leisure & Travel,
Communication, Energy & Utilities, Federal Government verticals and Independent Software Vendors. Raybiztech's
innovative IT Solutions in Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Enterprise Portals and Content Management
(EPCM), Customer Relationship Management (CRM), and Enterprise Mobility including Product Development and
Life-Cycle Support, have resulted in significant strategic and cost advantage for their clients worldwide.
Raybiztech is now leading the way in powering next-generation enterprises with its Cloud, Mobility, Big Data and
Social Media solutions. Our excellent team of Technology Professionals work with enterprise clients in North
America, Latin America, Australia, Europe, Middle East and Asia.

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