April 10, 2014
in Blog.
It seems that just adding the cache middleware does not actually cause anything to be cached. Django-CMS handles its own caching. This is great except that the default cache time for a page is 60 seconds. Which is odd since Django-CMS seems to store version information in the cache to not serve stale pages. So I've upped the cache expiration to 15 days to start.
CMS_CONTENT_CACHE_DURATION = 1296000
We'll see if that helps performance any on initial page loads. This won't help any with the blog performance since that is hosted by a separate application Zinnia. I've also set up a small Python script that just times the download of the HTML page and records it in a CSV file every 5 minutes or so.