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HCL Commerce is a high-availability, highly scalable and customizable e-commerce platform. Able to support hundreds of thousands of transactions per day, HCL Commerce allows you to do business with consumers (B2C) or directly with businesses (B2B). HCL Commerce uses cloud friendly technology to make deployment and operation both easy and efficient. It provides easy-to-use tools for business users to centrally manage a cross-channel strategy. Business users can create and manage precision marketing campaigns, promotions, catalog, and merchandising across all sales channels. Business users can also use AI enabled content management capabilities.
Performance
Topics in the Performance section describe the means by which to plan, implement, test, and re-visit the optimization of HCL Commerce site performance.
Measurement
As each deployment of HCL Commerce is different, a measured approach to modifying your defaults must be taken to successfully tune your site. The following collection of topics provides details on how to measure and troubleshoot site performance.

Documentation
HCL Commerce is a high-availability, highly scalable and customizable e-commerce platform. Able to support hundreds of thousands of transactions per day, HCL Commerce allows you to do business with consumers (B2C) or directly with businesses (B2B). HCL Commerce uses cloud friendly technology to make deployment and operation both easy and efficient. It provides easy-to-use tools for business users to centrally manage a cross-channel strategy. Business users can create and manage precision marketing campaigns, promotions, catalog, and merchandising across all sales channels. Business users can also use AI enabled content management capabilities.
- Getting started
  HCL Commerce has different advantages for business users, administrators and developers. HCL Commerce targets each of these roles with a tailored set of offerings so that each of your users can get maximum benefit.
- Installing and deploying
  Learn how to install and deploy HCL Commerce development environments and HCL Commerce production environments.
- Migrating
  Before you migrate to HCL Commerce Version 9, review this information to help plan and execute your migration.
- Operating
  Topics in the Operating category highlight tasks that are typically performed by business users, customer support representatives, to complete their day-to-day tasks in the operation of the HCL Commerce site.
- Integrating
  Topics in the Integrating category highlight the tasks that are commonly performed for using HCL Commerce in combination with other products.
- Administering
  Topics in the Administering category highlight tasks that are typically performed by the Site Administrator, to support daily operations of the HCL Commerce site.
- Customizing
  The topics in the Customizing section describe tasks performed by an application developer to customize HCL Commerce.
- Tutorials
  HCL Commerce provides many tutorials to help you customize and understand your HCL Commerce instance and stores.
- Samples
  Topics in the Samples category highlight the various samples that are provided with HCL Commerce.
- Compliance
  The following section describes how you can leverage HCL Commerce features and functionality to help your site be compliant with different privacy and security standards.
- Securing
  These topics describe the security features of HCL Commerce and how to configure these features.
- Performance
  Topics in the Performance section describe the means by which to plan, implement, test, and re-visit the optimization of HCL Commerce site performance.
  - Methodology
    Like site security, a proper approach to site performance requires planning, execution, testing, monitoring, and maintenance. The following collections of topics describe each phase of this process, and contain the recommended considerations, and best practices for getting the most out of your HCL Commerce deployment.
  - Experiments considerations
    When experiments that you have created in WebSphere Commerce Accelerator are running in the store, the Scheduler launches a job that determines whether any of the current experiments have expired. The job compares the expiration date specified in the experiment to the current system date. When an experiment is identified as expired, its status is updated in the database, and the experiment is prevented from displaying to customers.
  - Website performance tuning
    There are four steps for evaluating performance of an HCL Commerce website that is based on Transaction server.
  - Tuning the price rule object cache
    You can improve performance by changing the size of the cache used to store price rule business objects during storefront runtime.
  - Data Load utility performance tuning
    Scheduled Data Load utility jobs can affect HCL Commerce performance. You can reduce the impact of this process by tuning the data load performance appropriately for your implementation.
  - Workspaces performance tuning
    Workspaces use database views instead of tables to retrieve data. Retrieval of underlying data might be more time-consuming because of the complexity of SQL statements that are used in workspace view definitions.
  - Preparing HCL Commerce for the peak shopping periods
    When preparing for peak shopping periods, such as the holiday season, use the following best practices to effectively manage your HCL Commerce environment for peak efficiency, and to ensure that your HCL Commerce site is ready to handle the increased load.
  - Docker performance tuning
    The following performance tuning information can be used to help you configure your containerized HCL Commerce environments for optimal performance.
  - Search health check
    The search health check API is used to regularly check the status of Commerce containers to make sure they are in a healthy state.
  - Measurement
    As each deployment of HCL Commerce is different, a measured approach to modifying your defaults must be taken to successfully tune your site. The following collection of topics provides details on how to measure and troubleshoot site performance.
    - Performance Measurement tool
      As a developer, you can use the Performance Measurement tool to gather performance data on a running application to help you identify any performance bottlenecks. You can use this tool in both your development environment to test operation performance, and in your production environment to analyze the actual performance of an operation. When you run this tool, you can generate different reports to help you identify operations that impact performance and determine how to improve caching performance.
    - Analysis with IBM Cloud tools
      A suite of IBM Cloud tools is available to diagnose the overall health and performance of your site. Run diagnostics and upload various metric containing files to get guided feedback and analysis to help you understand your site configuration and performance.
    - Performance logger
      The performance logger produces trace information about the response time when HCL Commerce calls out to an external system. The trace can be used by a monitor to measure response times.
    - Data recording: Improving runtime performance
      Two options are provided which can improve runtime performance regarding the recording of user behavior data.
- Troubleshooting
  Topics in the Troubleshooting section highlight common issues that are encountered with HCL Commerce, and how they can be addressed or mitigated.
- Reference
  Topics in the Reference section contain all of the HCL Commerce reference documentation.

Measurement

As each deployment of HCL Commerce is different, a measured approach to modifying your defaults must be taken to successfully tune your site. The following collection of topics provides details on how to measure and troubleshoot site performance.