Sluggish Sitecore Development Environment? Here’s An Easy Method To Disable Sitecore Analytics

When you install a new 8.0 instance of Sitecore you will find the site can be laggy and sluggish to load. To speed up your dev environment I would recommend this easy fix.

First create a folder called z in your app config sitecore path: C:\inetpub\wwwroot\yoursitecore\Website\App_Config\z

Then, create a file called zwoa.config and paste the following in:

<configuration xmlns:patch="<a href="http://www.sitecore.net/xmlconfig/">http://www.sitecore.net/xmlconfig/</a>">
 <sitecore>
 <pipelines>
 <initialize>
 <processor type="Sitecore.Pipelines.Initialize.PrecompileSpeakViews, Sitecore.Speak.Clientpro" >
 <patch:delete />
 </processor>
 <processor type="Sitecore.ContentTesting.Pipelines.Initialize.RegisterContentTestingCommandRoute, Sitecore.ContentTesting" >
 <patch:delete />
 </processor>
 <processor type="Sitecore.Pipelines.Initialize.PrecompileSpeakViews, Sitecore.Speak.Client" use="ContentTesting" >
 <patch:delete />
 </processor>
 </initialize>
 <mvc.renderPageExtenders>
 <processor patch:after="processor[@type='Sitecore.Mvc.ExperienceEditor.Pipelines.RenderPageExtenders.RenderExtendersContainer, Sitecore.Mvc.ExperienceEditor']" type="Sitecore.Mvc.ExperienceEditor.Pipelines.RenderPageExtenders.RenderPageEditorExtender, Sitecore.Mvc.ExperienceEditor"></processor>
 <processor patch:after="processor[@type='Sitecore.Mvc.ExperienceEditor.Pipelines.RenderPageExtenders.RenderExtendersContainer, Sitecore.Mvc.ExperienceEditor']" type="Sitecore.Mvc.ExperienceEditor.Pipelines.RenderPageExtenders.RenderPreviewExtender, Sitecore.Mvc.ExperienceEditor"></processor>
 <processor patch:after="processor[@type='Sitecore.Mvc.ExperienceEditor.Pipelines.RenderPageExtenders.RenderExtendersContainer, Sitecore.Mvc.ExperienceEditor']" type="Sitecore.Mvc.ExperienceEditor.Pipelines.RenderPageExtenders.RenderDebugExtender, Sitecore.Mvc.ExperienceEditor"></processor>
 <processor type=""Sitecore.Mvc.ExperienceEditor.Pipelines.RenderPageExtenders.SpeakRibbon.RenderPageEditorSpeakExtender, Sitecore.Mvc.ExperienceEditor" >
 <patch:delete />
 </processor>
 </mvc.renderPageExtenders>
 </pipelines>
 <settings>
 <setting name="Analytics.Enabled" > <patch:attribute name="value" value="false" />
 </setting>
 </settings>
 </sitecore>
 </configuration>

Refresh your Sitecore in a web browser and watch it go!