MiniProfiler MvcSiteMapProvider

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We are getting excessive load times of over 6 seconds, on static content pages, which seems to happen around the "Render: Index", We have managed to work out its the MvcSiteMapProvider

*Executing Controller: Eclipse.Wi.Areas.Workin...    2.1     6314.6 +3.9    
   Find: Index   0.0     0.0    +6.0    
   Render : Index    6306.4  6312.5 +6.0*   

We are using StackExchange MVC profiler and MvcSiteMapProvider (links below)

http://www.nuget.org/packages/MvcSiteMapProvider

http://nuget.org/packages/MiniProfiler/

Question

How do we use Profiler to Profile the MvcSiteMapProvider, so we can evaluate why the load times are so excessive when using 3 menus.

Answer 1

Mini-profiler is a fairly simple (but effective) profiler; it does not include hooks to drill invasively into external code. I expect to use mini-profiler for that you'd need to do a custom build from source, adding explicit profiling steps. That probably isn't overly taxing, but there are other tools that are designed for invasive profiling that might be more convenient (but with more impact to overall performance).