Umbraco Dictionary Key Performance
I've re cently had the task of optimizing a clients website. On my tour of the site i noticed an instance where 20-30 dictionary keys are requested in succession for a single view. I decided to do some performance testing and find out how quickly the action is performed before and after caching. I made 25 keys in the backoffice with naming following this scheme "key0", "key1" and so on. controller action: public string Get() { StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder (); var timer = new Stopwatch (); timer . Start(); for ( var x = 0 ; x < 25 ; x ++ ) Umbraco . GetDictionaryValue( "key" + x); timer . Stop(); return timer . ElapsedMilliseconds + "ms " + timer . ElapsedTicks + " ticks" ; } Results were on first run (presumably includes a database query) 112ms 262011 ticks then progressively lower 32ms 74887 ticks