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Web Server Performance Tuning for Siebel Open UI

Although the Siebel Web Server Extension (SWSE) attempts to perform some amount of optimization, it is recommended that you run performance-tuning plug-ins such as YSlow, an add-on for Mozilla Firefox. YSlow verifies proper configuration tuning of the Web server. For more information about YSlow, see

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/yslow/

For a well-configured system, YSlow generally provides a grade of 85 or higher. For more information about performance rules for Web servers, see the following site:

http://developer.yahoo.com/performance/rules.html

The following settings are required for the Web server:

• Minify customization by using a tool such as YUI Compressor for your custom JavaScript and CSS.
• Enable Gzip compression on the Web server.
• Disable entity tags (ETags) on the Web server. Doing this generally improves performance on multi-server deployments.
• Set header expiration to five days for production deployments. Do not set header expiration for development environments.

NOTE:  For Microsoft IIS 7 and later, these settings are automatically set correctly in the IIS configuration when you configure the SWSE. For other supported Web servers, you must optimize the Web server manually.

For more information about configuring the Web server and the SWSE, see the Siebel Installation Guide for the operating system you are using. For more information about performance tuning for Siebel Business Applications, see Siebel Performance Tuning Guide.

This topic is part of Siebel Open UI Server Deployment Characteristics.

Related Books

Siebel Installation Guide for the operating system you are using

Siebel Performance Tuning Guide