Performance Tuning: Liferay

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Introduction

Performance tuning is a critical aspect of maintaining and optimizing any applications to ensure they meet the demands of users while efficiently utilizing system resources. Liferay is a powerful platform for building enterprise portals and digital experiences, but as with any complex software system, ensuring optimal performance requires careful planning, monitoring, and optimization.

The performance of the portal is mainly divided into two sections.

  1. Front end performance
  2. Backend performance

To optimize the performance of the portal we need to perform various steps mentioned below

Front-end performance tuning 

Images
  • Use Standard size images on the webpage.
  • Compress the image size according to the PX ratio.
  • Use the proper format of the image (WebP).
  • Use adaptive media images for mobile and other devices.

Java Script
  • Enable Lazy loading.
  • Minify the JS.
  • Use the CDN for JS loading.

Templates
  • Minimize the front-end manipulation.

Content compression
  • Install the content compression tool at the web server level
Back-end performance tuning 

AJP connector
  • Use AJP connection between Web server to app server calls
  • Also, you can apply tuning using the below attributes

 

<Connector port=”8009″ protocol=”AJP/1.3″ 

redirectPort=”8443″ 

maxThreads=”450″ 

connectionTimeout=”20000″ 

keepAliveTimeout=”10000″ 

URIEncoding=”UTF-8″ />

Database configurations
  • We can update these properties for database tuning in Liferay

     

    jdbc.default.connectionTimeout=30000

    jdbc.default.idleTimeout=600000

    jdbc.default.maximumPoolSize=100

    jdbc.default.maxLifetime=0

    jdbc.default.minimumIdle=10

    jdbc.default.registerMbeans=true

Cloudflare
  • Use Cloudflare for better caching

Portal properties configurations
  • Disable unused filters from liferay

 

com.liferay.portal.servlet.filters.sso.cas.CASFilter=false

com.liferay.portal.servlet.filters.sso.ntlm.NtlmFilter=false

com.liferay.portal.servlet.filters.sso.ntlm.NtlmPostFilter=false

com.liferay.portal.servlet.filters.sso.opensso.OpenSSOFilter=false

com.liferay.portal.servlet.filters.gzip.GZipFilter=false

com.liferay.portal.servlet.filters.strip.StripFilter=false

com.liferay.portal.sharepoint.SharepointFilter=false

com.liferay.portal.servlet.filters.layoutcache.LayoutCacheFilter=true

com.liferay.portal.servlet.filters.validhtml.ValidHtmlFilter=false


  • Add the below properties for better performance.

 

direct.servlet.context.reload=false

session.tracker.memory.enabled=false

counter.increment=2000

dl.file.rank.enabled=false

dl.file.entry.read.count.enabled=false

permissions.inline.sql.check.enabled=false

  • Disable the Developer mode from liferay
  • The property’s name depends on the Liferay version.
Performance tuning: Verification 

Jmeter
  • Performs a backend load test
  • Can check the timing of each request, failure counts, etc.

Lighthouse
  • Performs a front-end performance test
  • Provides front-end performance tuning guidelines
Conclusion

In conclusion, optimizing Liferay’s performance involves a multifaceted approach that includes tuning various components such as the application server, database, caching mechanisms, and the Liferay configuration itself.

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