ASP.NET Site Performance Secrets

Simple and proven techniques to quickly speed up your ASP.NET website

Key Features

• Speed up your ASP.NET website by identifying performance bottlenecks that hold back your site's performance and fixing them
• Tips and tricks for writing faster code and pinpointing those areas in the code that matter most, thus saving time and energy
• Drastically reduce page load times
• Configure and improve compression – the single most important way to improve your site's performance
• Written in a simple problem-solving manner – with a practical hands-on approach and just the right amount of theory you need to make sense of it all

Book Description

What you will learn

• Learn how to pinpoint and fix bottlenecks relating to all aspects of your site – server side, client side, code, images, and database.
• Ensure shorter wait times for your site.
• Eliminate the need to hire a DBA, by speeding up database access using insight into index structures and other advanced techniques.
• Drastically speed up image loading, by exploiting browser behavior and by removing the hidden overhead in each image file.
• Use ASP.NET s caching feature to dramatically improve performance by adding just a few lines of code.
• Prevent a little known bottleneck overlooked by most developers – a shortage of worker threads in IIS – by using asynchronous methods.
• Enable compression in IIS 6 and IIS 7 to cut file transfer times and bandwidth costs.
• Reduce your Memory and CPU usage.
• Optimize the deployment and usage of forms on your website.
• Speed up JavaScript and CSS loading.
• Diagnose problems as they occur, using waterfall charts.
• Load-test your environment to measure the level of improvement in performance.
• Find heaps of reference links and descriptions of free and low cost tools and services that make it easy to spot performance issues right away.

Who this book is for

This book is written for ASP.NET/SQL Server-based website developers who want to speed up their site using simple, proven tactics without going through a lot of unnecessary theoretical learning. If your website isn't performing well, this is the ideal book for you.