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ASP.NET Site Performance Secrets

By : Mattijs Perdeck
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ASP.NET Site Performance Secrets

By: Mattijs Perdeck

Overview of this book

Do you think that only experts with a deep understanding of the inner workings of ASP.NET, SQL Server, and IIS can improve a website's performance? Think again – because this book tosses that notion out of the window. It will help you resolve every web developer's nightmare – a slow website – with angry managers looking over your shoulder, raging calls from advertisers and clients – the lot. You don't have the time or energy to gain a thorough and complete understanding of ASP.NET performance optimization – You just need your site to run faster! This book will show you how.This hands-on book shows how to dramatically improve the performance of your ASP.NET-based website straight away, without forcing you through a lot of theoretical learning. It teaches you practical, step-by-step techniques that you can use right away to make your site faster with just the right amount of theory you need to make sense of it all.Start reading today and you could have a faster website tomorrow.Unlike other performance-related books, here you'll first learn how to pinpoint the bottlenecks that hold back your site's performance, so you can initially focus your time and energy on those areas of your site where you can quickly make the biggest difference. It then shows you how to fix the bottlenecks you found with lots of working code samples and practical advice, and just the right amount of theoretical detail.The first chapter details techniques for diagnosing performance issues using Waterfall charts. Subsequent chapters then each focus on one individual aspect of your website, providing you with numerous real-life scenarios and performance-enhancing techniques for each of them. In the last chapter, you learn how to effectively load-test your environment in order to measure the change in performance of your site without having to update your production environment – whether it is a new release or simply a small change in the database.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
ASP.NET Site Performance Secrets
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface

Caching


You can ask the visitor's browser to cache your images on the visitor's machine. This way, the next time they are needed, they are available immediately. In addition to this, your images may pass through proxy servers on their way from the server to the browser and these proxy servers, too, can cache your images. Although not as effective as caching on the browser itself, this still improves load times because proxy servers tend to be closer to the browser than your server.

Cache-Control response header

IIS tells the browser and proxies whether an image can be cached via the Cache-Control response header. Its possible values include:

Cache-Control value

Description

no-cache

Prevents caching in the browser or proxies.

private

Allows caching in the browser, but not in proxies. This is the default value.

public

Allows caching in both the browser and in proxies.

In addition to this, the Cache-Control: max-age header specifies the maximum time (in seconds) the browser should...