Improve Sitecore Experience Editor Performance by Disabling Number of Locked Items Counter

The Sitecore Experience Editor is not the fastest tool in the shed, but you can improve the performance slightly by disabling the counter on the “My items” button that shows how many items you currently have locked:

Number of locked items on button

The setting is called WebEdit.ShowNumberOfLockedItemsOnButton and is available from Sitecore 9. You find the setting in the \App_Config\Sitecore\Experience Editor\Sitecore.ExperienceEditor.config file.

To disable the counter, simply set the value to false:

<configuration xmlns:env="http://www.sitecore.net/xmlconfig/env/" xmlns:patch="http://www.sitecore.net/xmlconfig/">
  <sitecore>
    <settings>
      <setting name="WebEdit.ShowNumberOfLockedItemsOnButton" value="false"/>
    </settings>
  </sitecore>
</configuration>

MORE TO READ:

• Improve Sitecore Content Editor Performance by JocksToTheCore
• Sitecore performance – How you can make performance a key part of your projects by Jeremy Davis
• General about the Experience Editor by Sitecore
• How to disable the counter for Sitecore 8 by Mikael Högberg
• Speed Up Your Sitecore Experience Editor Ribbon – how to modify Sitecore to cache the Experience Editor Ribbon from Sitecore Journey