Hi Zoperopes.... Im nearing completion of my site and though Im new to python and zope, I've gotten a mile out of the meter of funcitonality. Im very happy with it,. But next I raise the issue of speed.... Im wondering what are the evaluating criteriea for the response speed of Zope.... Say for instance, you use heavy namespace access, does it slow the system down much? How about for dbms calls? Im using SQLSession quite heavily to store parameters that are required to run the site. Also, Im pretty stupid when it comes to this ZClass stuff, so I've just worked around it by using close to 150 SQL methods and EVERYTHING is in the DBMS. Not only by idiocy, but because the site was ramped out of another webapp system and it seemed easier to just keep using the dbms data for everything..... Also, is there a product that can do timegating and performance testing on zope? Thanks as always, Paz