Comments on: How to speed up your ASP.NET web application http://blog.richard.parker.name/2009/08/05/how-to-speed-up-your-asp-net-web-application/ Physical computing, the web, usability and tech miscellany Wed, 14 Jul 2010 14:45:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Neil Fenwick http://blog.richard.parker.name/2009/08/05/how-to-speed-up-your-asp-net-web-application/#comment-133 Neil Fenwick Thu, 06 Aug 2009 11:17:47 +0000 http://blog.richard.parker.name/?p=339#comment-133 I agree with all the points above. If I was trying to improve a slow website, I think I'd suggest the following two things: 1. Throw faster hardware at it (assuming you can upgrade). 2. Turn on http / gzip compression of the response. I prefer the faster hardware because people's time is expensive, hardware isn't. If you're written slow code, before you spend hours micro-optimising - throw in fast hardware and spend your time on your customers instead. For me, the pro's of turning on compression outweight the resource hit on the server. Each http-request is taking up a thread on your server and holding memory and processing time. Sure, take a hit to compress the page, but then the http-requests are getting in and out quicker, freeing up more resources. It will at least balance out in the end probably. I agree with all the points above. If I was trying to improve a slow website, I think I’d suggest the following two things:

1. Throw faster hardware at it (assuming you can upgrade).
2. Turn on http / gzip compression of the response.

I prefer the faster hardware because people’s time is expensive, hardware isn’t. If you’re written slow code, before you spend hours micro-optimising – throw in fast hardware and spend your time on your customers instead.

For me, the pro’s of turning on compression outweight the resource hit on the server. Each http-request is taking up a thread on your server and holding memory and processing time. Sure, take a hit to compress the page, but then the http-requests are getting in and out quicker, freeing up more resources. It will at least balance out in the end probably.

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