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title: "Application performance tuning"
slug: "application-performance-tuning"
abstract: ""
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# Application performance tuning

This section provides application-level performance tuning guidance for Sitecore XM environments. It covers on-premise, Azure IaaS, and Azure PaaS deployments and includes guidance for [IIS, Azure App Service](https://doc.sitecore.com/xp/en/developers/105/sitecore-experience-manager/iis---azure-app-service-tuning.html "IIS / Azure app service tuning"), .NET runtime, [Sitecore caching](https://doc.sitecore.com/xp/en/developers/105/sitecore-experience-manager/sitecore-cache-settings.html "Sitecore cache settings"), and [startup behavior](https://doc.sitecore.com/xp/en/developers/105/sitecore-experience-manager/cold-start-and-warm-up-optimization.html "Cold start and warm-up optimization").