Mastering Django: Core

Performance optimizations

Setting DEBUG = False disables several features that are only useful in development. In addition, you can tune the following settings.

CONN_MAX_AGE

Enabling persistent database connections can result in a nice speed-up when connecting to the database accounts for a significant part of the request processing time. This helps a lot on virtualized hosts with limited network performance.

TEMPLATES

Enabling the cached template loader often improves performance drastically, as it avoids compiling each template every time it needs to be rendered. See the template loaders docs for more information.