BLOB Caching Enabled
BLOB Caching Enabled best practices report by SPDocKit determines whether there are servers in the environment with binary large object (BLOB) caching enabled.
Issue description
This check determines whether there are servers in the environment with binary large object (BLOB) caching enabled.
Explanation
A disk-based BLOB cache is used for caching various image, audio and video files, together with cascading style sheets (CSS) and JavaScript (JS) files. A BLOB cache improves performance by retrieving BLOB files from the database and storing them in a directory on the front-end web server where they are served to the users. This reduces the network traffic too and the load on the database server. BLOB caching is disabled by default.
Solution
BLOB caching can be enabled on web servers that accept and process end-user requests. Before you enable BLOB caching, carefully consider how you plan to use it. In some scenarios, like in a heavy collaboration, a BLOB cache can even lower performance due to the intensive caching operations. A BLOB cache has a high benefit in the following scenarios:
Publishing sites hosting a lot of static content and image renditions,
Sites with a large number of read-only media files or where only a small percentage of the media assets are updated.
There is one BLOB cache per web application. Consider choosing a dedicated drive as the cache location. Storing cache files on the same drive as SharePoint binaries, page files or ULS and IIS logs can have a negative impact on the performance of the system.
BLOB caching is enabled by editing the web.config file for the web application and changing the following line:
You can find extensive information about the configuration of and planning for BLOB caching in the article specified under Additional information.
Additional information
Additional information can be found in the following TechNet article:
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