---
title: "Reducing Sitecore Startup Time"
description: "Slow Sitecore startup times hurt developer productivity. TechGuilds shares the configuration changes and techniques that reduce application load time."
canonical: "https://www.techguilds.com/blog/reducing-sitecore-startup-time/"
type: "BlogPosting"
author: "Nabil Orfali"
publishedAt: "2016-07-04T04:00:00.000Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-21T19:24:42Z"
source: "https://www.techguilds.com/llms.txt"
---

# Reducing Sitecore Startup Time

## Loading....please wait....sigh!

I've noticed that starting the application takes about 2 minutes, establishing a connection in Sitecore Rocks takes another 2 minutes, previewing a page takes another 2 minutes! Multiply that by the number of times per day or week you start an application and this is not just VERY frustrating, but a huge waste of valuable development time!

```text
namespace TechGuilds.Web.layouts.WeBlog
{
    using System;

    public partial class BlogCategoryHeader : System.Web.UI.UserControl
    {
        private void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            BlogCategoryTitle.DataSource = Sitecore.Context.Item.ID.ToString();
            BlogCategoryTitle.DataBind();
        }
    }
}
```

While looking for ways to deal with this issue, I found this excellent [article](http://kamsar.net/index.php/2015/02/sitecore-8-experience-editor-performance-optimization/) by Sitecore MVP Kam Figy, and I ended up **decreasing the loading times by about 60%**! The article goes in-depth on the issue but here is a simple overview of what I did:

1. Navigate to and open the file Sitecore.Speak.config located in C:\\inetpub\\wwwroot\\{Instance Name}\\Website\\App_Config\\Include.
2. Disable the SPEAK precompilation features as shown below:
3. Do the same in Sitecore.ContentTesting.config, which is located in C:\\inetpub\\wwwroot\\{Instance Name}\\Website\\App_Config\\Include\\ContentTesting:
4. Navigate to your Web.config file (C:\\inetpub\\wwwroot\\{Instance Name}\\Website) and set optimizeCompilations to "true" as shown below:

These steps greatly decreased my loading times, thanks for the great article Kam!