Added notes on the site performance.

NOTES.txt

@@ -18,3 +18,31 @@ mysql -u niche -p niche < schema.sql
 Sanitizing
 ----------
 bleach looks fine https://github.com/jsocol/bleach
+
+Performance
+-----------
+All with niche-dev running a local server.
+
+base: 1592 ms
+web.config.debug = False: 841 ms
+Pre-compiled templates: 848 ms
+Basic MySQL caching: ~366 ms
+
+cProfile doesn't do multiple threads.
+
+HTML templates: 366 ms
+Precompiled templates: 360 ms (no advantage)
+
+Baseline: 366 ms
+Basic caching: 228 ms
+Binary pickle: 221 ms
+
+Before launch
+-------------
+Error and access logging: DONE
+Check /static/ is served by nginx: DONE
+Check gzip effects: DONE
+Way of logging bytes transferred: 
+error.log has no SQL in it: DONE
+memcached in monit: DONE
+monit emails sending: DONE