Precompilation of pages

Overview

Precompilation of pages, introduced in Sitefinity CMS 7.3, is a standard feature of ASP.NET that gives the following advantages:

Helps pages load faster when requested for the first time
Reduces processor load
Skips the warm-up phase when a site is deployed.

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Precompiler tool

Sitefinity CMS has a custom command-line tool - Telerik.Sitefinity.Compiler.exe that compiles the generated markup, retrieved from the markup service.

Command line arguments

This article contains a list of all command-line arguments that you can use in Sitefinity CMS precompiler tool.

Precompilation log

Override the page strategies

Use this procedure to create a custom frontend strategy that will compile only specific frontend pages, instead of all the pages of the site.

Custom resource provider considerations

Perform this procedure, if you use a custom resource provider that implements the IResourceProvider interface.

Use the Precompiler tool in a load balanced setup

Use Sitefinity CMS page precompiler for sites deployed in load balanced setup and deploy the precompilation assemblies at more than one server.

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