We know only too well that website performance can be the difference between a website being a great customer experience and meeting all your internal stakeholder expectations, or completely missing the mark.
There are widely differing reasons why a website could be running slow:
- The underlying infrastructure: it could well be that the server setups are not sufficient in terms of disk, memory, processor, bandwidth, or even in their configuration to allow for fast responses.Configuration issues can then become magnified when using multiple differing servers in an ecosystem.
- Solution Architecture: Has the solution been architected and implemented in the most appropriate way? If not, then chances are performance may suffer.
- Bloated code: All code needs to be as lean as possible. Sometimes developers focus more on making functionality work rather than adhering to coding best practices resulting in code that is a lot larger than required.
- Javascript and CSS: These files can become quite large and should be minified. Pages can slow down if they are having to load Javascript code which is not used.
- Onsite SEO: SEO has multiple best practices which change constantly. Not adhering to these practices can more often than not lead to issues with both performance but more importantly for website crawling by the search engines.
Our website advisory solution will take a look into all of these potential problem areas and a lot more to identify where your site’s weak points areand what can be done to remedy the situation. We are well versed at looking at solutions ranging from a single server all the way to more complex multi-server installations on Azure running Uniform or linked to third-party content delivery services such as Akamai.
If you are unhappy with your current Optimizely, Sitecore, or Uniform for Sitecore website performance, do not hesitate to contact us and we’ll be happy to audit your environment.