Optimising ASP.NET Performance
Something I do a lot with customers is improving their ASP.NET Web Site performance. Most people spend hours looking at server-side performance, but just don’t realise what kind of gains you can get by looking at often-overlooked settings. I’ve seen cases when enabling GZIP compression in IIS and setting up some content expiration headers alone has given over 40% improvement in page load time for the end user (and sometimes up to 70% improvements with a few more tweaks – and that matters over a slow WAN). Those kind of results just can’t be ignored, so if you’re doing any serious web site development make sure you think about it!
I’ve been meaning to blog a list of things to consider when doing this tuning for ages, but just noticed that my exceedingly talented colleagues over the fence in Microsoft Consulting Services UK have just such a list on their team blog… so go check it out;