1. Delivering client sites
Ilesh Mistry

2. Agenda
 MMT Digital
 Ilesh Mistry
 Common mistakes in site delivery
 Delivering client sites
 Questions
@ileshmistry | #KenticoConnection

4. Elevator pitch –
We architect, design and build
bespoke websites and applications
that deliver outstanding user
experiences.
“
”

5. v

6. Ilesh Mistry
- http://www.mmtdigital.co.uk
/Ilesh-mistry/blog
- @ileshmistry
- Ilesh.m@mmtdigital.co.uk
@ileshmistry | #KenticoConnection

7. Ilesh Mistry
Mini Mistrys…
- Short videos on various
Kentico topics
- How to guides
- Smart Search is the
beginning…
- Any suggestions let me know
@ileshmistry | #KenticoConnection

8. Common mistakes in site delivery
@ileshmistry | #KenticoConnection

9. Common mistakes in site delivery
@ileshmistry | #KenticoConnection

10. Common mistakes in site delivery
 Search doesn’t work
 Analytics not working
 Dropped in SEO ranking
 Can’t access Online Marketing
 Page is running slow
 Can’t access admin area
 Seeing error pages
 Etc…
Make sure you site is ready ready and not just finished
@ileshmistry | #KenticoConnection

11. Delivering client sites - Agenda
 Kentico Connection Site Delivery Checklist (#KenticoConnectionSDC)
 UI Admin
 EMS configuration
 Front End Optimisation Techniques
 URLs & SEO
 Performance
 Caching
 Testing during site development
 Security
 Staying alive
 Any other things?
@ileshmistry | #KenticoConnection

12. @ileshmistry | #KenticoConnection
Your Kentico
Community
needs…
You!
#KenticoConnectionSDC

13. UI Admin
 Customise dashboard and
applications list
 Roles and permissions
 Page Types child items
 Workflow
 Resize image on upload
 Build all Smart Search indexes that are needed across site?
 Cleaned up the content tree and removed any unwanted items?
 Page type icons
 Forms & Form Layouts
 Switched on various settings
 Clean up templates and widgets they can select
 Kentico Editor output styling e.g. Bullet point list
 Use the new Version 9 Web Parts and Widget Usages to locate
@ileshmistry | #KenticoConnection
New in Version 9

14. EMS configuration
 Set-up Widgets where you can?
 Turned on/enabled Online Marketing options?
 Enabled A/B Testing and MVT option
 Enabled Content Personalization option
 Thought about tracking conversions, if so use the conversion
form control field
 Mapped Form fields to allow for contacts within Kentico
@ileshmistry | #KenticoConnection

15. Front End Optimisation Techniques
 Image optimisation
 Store in Filesystem
 Upload size
 Store files elsewhere
 Images
 Videos
 GZIP / output
compression
@ileshmistry | #KenticoConnection

16. Front End Optimisation Techniques
 Minification
 (JS, CSS, Images etc…)
 Task runner e.g. Grunt
@ileshmistry | #KenticoConnection

17. Front End Optimisation Techniques
 Responsive Design
@ileshmistry | #KenticoConnection
Source: https://kinsta.com/learn/page-speed/

18. URLs and SEO
 URL Redirects
 Same URLs
 Allowed extensions
 Canonical Links
 Page Not Found
 Robots, Google Sitemap and
Google Analytics
 Thinking about multiple cultures would help with
this
 HTML structures and syntax
 Structured data e.g. Schema.org
(https://developers.google.com/structured-
data/testing-tool/)
@ileshmistry | #KenticoConnection

19. Performance
 Kentico documentation for speeding up the website
 Web part performance best practice
 Only render what is required for that section not unrequired
items (e.g. non mandatory fields markup showing up)
 Bad backend coding
@ileshmistry | #KenticoConnection

20. Performance
 SQL Debugger
 Real time SQL debugging
 Looking at columns you need
to use and not all
 Different places to view it
 Performance benefit
 You know what to do when
you have finished with it!
@ileshmistry | #KenticoConnection

21. Performance
 SQL Debugger
 Under Debug  SQL Queries
 Example of a Hierarchical Viewer with
multiple Page Types
@ileshmistry | #KenticoConnection

22. Performance
 KInspector
@ileshmistry | #KenticoConnection

23. Performance - Recommendations
 I would recommend to always check the SQL Debugger /
Kinspector
 Then if things look bad, use the web part with SQL Query in
them so you define what the query / data source is and it is not
something you just let Kentico handle
 There are always and will be different scenarios to use some
options over others, it all depends per project
@ileshmistry | #KenticoConnection

24. Caching
 What are you
going to cache?
 Main types
 Output caching
 Partial Caching
 CacheHelper.Cache
 Debugging cache
 Output cache
substitutions
 To cache or not to
cache that is the
question
@ileshmistry | #KenticoConnection
private void BindGridCachedSection()
{
DataSet ds = null;
using (CachedSection<DataSet> cs = new CachedSection<DataSet>(ref
ds, new CacheSettings(60, "UsersDataset")))
{
if (cs.LoadData) { ds = LoadUsersFromDB("UserEnabled=1"); }
}
grid.DataSource = ds;
grid.DataBind();
}
private void BindGridTheBest()
{
grid.DataSource = CacheHelper.Cache(() =>
LoadUsersFromDB("UserEnabled=1"), new CacheSettings(60,
"UsersDataset"));
grid.DataBind();
}
Server/content cache Code from Petr Svihlik slides Kentico Developer Roadshow - London

25. Testing during site development
 Kentico validation
 HTML
 CSS
 Link checker
 Accessibility
 Online validation
@ileshmistry | #KenticoConnection

26. Testing during site development
 JS Unit Testing
 Jasmine & Karma
@ileshmistry | #KenticoConnection

27. Testing during site development
 JS Unit Testing
 Jasmine & Karma
@ileshmistry | #KenticoConnection

28. Testing during site development
 .Net Unit Testing
 NUnit
 Mocking with MOQ
outside Kentico
 Custom Services
@ileshmistry | #KenticoConnection

29. Testing during site development
 .Net Unit Testing
 NUnit
 Mocking with MOQ
outside Kentico
 Custom Services
@ileshmistry | #KenticoConnection

30. Testing during site development
 Cross browser and
device testing
 Selenium automated
testing
@ileshmistry | #KenticoConnection

31. Security
 Run site through HTTPS
 Stress Testing / Concurrent Testing e.g. Seige
 Penetration Testing
 Open Web Application Security Project
(OWASP) Top 10 Security Vulnerabilities
 Injection
 Cross Site Scripting
 Anti CSRF (Cross-Site Request Forgery)
 Etc…
 Now improved in version 9 protection against CSRF by employing
anti-CSRF tokens
 Great article by Juraj Komlosi on this
@ileshmistry | #KenticoConnection

32. Staying alive
 There are tools out there that check sites
 UpTrends
 Uptime Robot
 StatusCake
 Pingdom
 Get alerts before the client does so you can resolve them
quickly
@ileshmistry | #KenticoConnection

33. Any other things?
 Kentico Setup Installer
 Follow my blog post on setting up a base site template
@ileshmistry | #KenticoConnection

34. @ileshmistry | #KenticoConnection
Your Kentico
Community
needs…
You!
#KenticoConnectionSDC

35. Questions?
@ileshmistry | #KenticoConnection

36. Thank you!
http://www.mmtdigital.co.uk/Ilesh-Mistry
https://twitter.com/ileshmistry
https://www.facebook.com/ilesh.mistry
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ileshmistry
https://plus.google.com/+IleshMistry
ilesh.m@mmtdigital.co.uk
@ileshmistry | #KenticoConnection