We've applied several changes related to performance. Please get the latest "develop" branch and test it out. Great news. Many thanks. Can you please clarify the URL where this can be downloaded?
here is the link. "https://github.com/nopSolutions/nopCommerce" Then green button "Clone or Download". It is the source code and must be compiled with Visual Studio.
Just tried yours Jon and no pun intended but it is quick.
I've scheduled my upload for 14:30 today and hope to report similar results.
Will be interested to hear your results.
As a side-note: Is there any compelling reason to consider redis cache? would any marginal gains be seen? I assume this is a solution more to facilitate creating a web farm setup on Azure. I read some post comment that redis was being used as nothing more than a 'souped up' disctionary store within nop (I'm not qualified to comment)
Anyway, I tried to install a local Redis instance on my Linux deployment and pointed my nop instance to Redis on localhost. - Resulted in strange rendering issues, content not loading etc.