We have recently deployed Classified in the production environment (Debug is set to false). We are unhappy with performance of the default.aspx. It takes upto 8 to 10 seconds to load this page. After loading first page, all other pages are loading ok. Any tips on improving performance.

Server is not an issue. It is loading other sites (ASP, HTML, ASPX  extensions) on server very fast with no performance degradation.

All suggestions are welcome... 

Get more traffic.  Literally.  Then pages will stay cached and not have to be recompiled.

Jeff

nmodi:

We have recently deployed Classified in the production environment (Debug is set to false). We are unhappy with performance of the default.aspx. It takes upto 8 to 10 seconds to load this page. After loading first page, all other pages are loading ok. Any tips on improving performance.

Server is not an issue. It is loading other sites (ASP, HTML, ASPX  extensions) on server very fast with no performance degradation.

All suggestions are welcome... 

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I too agree with you.

The page takes a long time to load, and though being really good, its still a loss for us, as visitor might feel frustrated and may move elsewhere. Still many visitors are used to fast speed by  Classic ASP and they dont understand the concept of compilation at first level.

Is it possible to PRE-COMPILE the entire site and place it,

Is it possible to PRE-COMPILE with Visual Web Developer.

Sorry, I do not know , how to pre compile....?  Can any one guide me.

As jeff has said, to increase the Visitors, Its not possible since the website will take long time to become famous, and we cannot wait for visitors to compile on our behalf. The site will become more famouys, if it has good contents and good speed.

This is a burning issue and needs  to be solved. Its good that someone has started this issue in time.

Thanks

Paggy4u

If i were you i would purchase search engine expertise. As Jeff said this application really strived to implement extensive caching. It is just very optimzed for high volume traffic.

Yopu might add page level caching if you have huge graphics on your design.

Your application is unloaded from memory when you have no visitor for a certain amount of  time.

You may want to read the excellent article below:

http://hyperthink.net/blog/CommentView,guid,814816c5-bf82-4d0d-9480-a60713e97705.aspx

Thanks

/Kadji

Paggy do not compare classic asp and asp.net .
Classic asp is interpreted. This is really bad for performance. You will find similar behaviour in scripting language like PHP.
Asp.net is just in time compiled and the compiled class of the page is cached until something critical changes.
And as you mentioned yourself, you now have the possibility to deploy your application as precompiled.

Classifield is really designed for very high performance. They use extensive caching and Generics. Caching has dramatic effect on application performance.

Really be very happy to own a copy of this code.

Thanks

/Kadji

Figured it out. Using .net framework utility called aspnet_compiler allows to pre compile the app.

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms229863.aspx 

http://www.odetocode.com/Articles/417.aspx

Performance is significantly improved. It is taking 50% less time to load the home page. It is still not at the optimum level but it is at the level we can live with.

hello nModi,

 Can you kindly provide me a link to your website. I need to check the speed and advantages of it.

How did you precompile. Is it possible with VWD ( Visual Web Developer )

50% improvement in speed is really welcoming news.

Pl. provide me a link, and more information oin pre compilation process with VWD.

I do not own a VS22005.

Thanks
 

I need a solution/tutorial that teaches precompilation with VWD ( Visual Web Developer )

Can anyone guide me and help me in this case.

I really need to improve my  speed.

Thanks

If you use VS 2005 ,

Right click you website in the solution explorer.

The pop up menu number 2 is: "publish website"

One of the default option is "Precompiled".

HTH

/Kadji

You do not need to own Visual Studio 2005. It is part of .net framework. Most likely location for it will be on

c:\WINNT\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727 

You may also want to look onto aspnet_merge utility also. Again you do not need VS2005 to run it. Following article has detail

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnaspp/html/aspnet_merge_exe.asp 

http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=55639 

VWD Express does not have an option to precompile in the IDE. You need Visual Studio and maybe Web Deployment Projects add-on.

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/asp.net/aa336619.aspx 

http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2005/11/06/429723.aspx

You do can precompile manually. See doc on ASP.NET compiler: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms229863.aspx