Swati Gupta (3x Sitecore MVP) | Blogs

 Speed Up Sitecore Website Performance Performance is an essential part of any website. Slow website performance can be frustrating to users, and it can impact the business as well. Faster websites keep visitors on the website and visitors interact for a long time as well as the search engines will rank better faster. Page speed is important for better SEO ranking, lower bounce rate, and higher conversion rates. What is website page load time? Website page load time means how long a website takes to load fully and appear on screen including all content, text, images, and videos. Page speed can be dependent on several factors like file size, website server, inefficient code, third-party integration, caching, etc. Below are a few points that will be helpful to speed website performance: Sitecore Caching Caching is an essential part of a performance. Sitecore uses different types of caching layers like HTML cache, item cache, data cache, and prefetch cache to improve the performance. It i

Sitecore Error: Unhandled exception: "Keyset does not exist"  A few days back, I changed the certificate on the Content Management server, after that, I was not able to login into the Content Management Server. It was throwing the below error: Solution: After some investigation I found that my new certificate which I was using for the Identity server, does not have the permission of the Identity App Pool so I followed the below steps: Enter "mmc" in the run command window. Click on Add/Remove Snap-ins option inside the File menu. Select Certificates and click on Add button, then select Computer account and click on Next->Finish->Ok Go to the Personal-> Certificates. Now right-click on the Identity server certificate, then click All Tasks-> Manage Private Keys. Click on Add button and add IIS App Pool\Identity.XXX permission. Click on Check Name, and give read access. I hope it will work for you. Happy coding :)

Sitecore: windows could not start the service on the Local Computer I recently faced a problem where I was not able to start Sitecore services, it was throwing an error: Error 5: Access is denied. I thought it is because my user does not have administrative access as I was working on VM but later client confirmed that I have admin rights. I also tried to give permission to the folder where the service exists but still, it was throwing the same error. Solution: After some research I found the below solution: Go to your service and right-click. Go to properties and then go to on Log On tab. Check Allow service to interact with desktop checkbox. I hope it will work for you :)