Capacity and Performance

These white papers and links provide information for analysing and increasing performance and capacity of your e-commerce Web site.

Transaction Cost Analysis (TCA)

TCA methodology can be used to measure the cost of individual shopper operations, such as browsing, adding an item to the shopping cart, checking out, searching, registering, and so on. The capacity of a site is determined by dividing the costs of shopper operations into the total CPU capacity available for the server.

Performance White Papers

Performance information in the documents in this section should be considered examples for planning purposes. Actual performance will vary, based on variables such as user profile, network bandwidth, and other applications installed on the Site Server site.

Links to Performance Information

Browse the information on these sites to learn more about interoperability and performance enhancements.

Site Server Performance Analyses

The following documents provide performance and scaling analyses for several Microsoft® Site Server 3.0 Commerce Edition features. The analyses are based on typical transaction and user profiles, and they evaluate performance for various configurations. The user profiles, as well as the configurations used, are described in the documents.