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Saturday, October 04, 2008 11:05 AM

Best practices for creating websites in IIS 6.0

Every time I create an IIS website, I do some steps, which I consider as best practice for creating any IIS website for better performance, maintainability, and scalability. Here' re the things I do: Create a separate application pool for each web...
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Thursday, August 28, 2008 7:43 PM

HTTP handler to combine multiple files, cache and deliver compressed output for faster page load

It's a good practice to use many small Javascript and CSS files instead of one large Javascript/CSS file for better code maintainability, but bad in terms of website performance. Although you should write your Javascript code in small files and break...
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Friday, August 01, 2008 7:15 PM

Loading static content in ASP.NET pages from different domain for faster parallel download

Generally we put static content (images, css, js) of our website inside the same web project. Thus they get downloaded from the same domain like www.dropthings.com . There are three problems in this approach: They occupy connections on the same domain...
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Monday, June 30, 2008 9:12 AM

Deploy ASP.NET MVC on IIS 6, solve 404, compression and performance problems

There are several problems with ASP.NET MVC application when deployed on IIS 6.0: Extensionless URLs give 404 unless some URL Rewrite module is used or wildcard mapping is enabled IIS 6.0 built-in compression does not work for dynamic requests. As a result...
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Monday, June 09, 2008 7:08 AM

ensure - Ensure relevant Javascript and HTML are loaded before using them

ensure allows you to load Javascript, HTML and CSS on-demand, whenever they are needed. It saves you from writing a gigantic Javascript framework up front so that you can ensure all functions are available whenever they are needed. It also saves you from...
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Saturday, May 10, 2008 7:31 AM

Fast ASP.NET web page loading by downloading multiple javascripts in batch

A web page can load a lot faster and feel faster if the javascripts on the page can be loaded after the visible content has been loaded and multiple javascripts can be batched into one download. Browsers download one external script at a time and sometimes...
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Monday, April 14, 2008 8:29 AM

Fast, Streaming AJAX proxy - continuously download from cross domain

Due to browser's prohibition on cross domain XMLHTTP call, all AJAX websites must have server side proxy to fetch content from external domain like Flickr or Digg. From client side javascript code, an XMLHTTP call goes to the server side proxy hosted...
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Monday, April 07, 2008 2:17 PM

Reduce website download time by heavily compressing PNG and JPEG

PNG and JPEG are two most popular formats for web graphics. JPEG is used for photographs, screenshots and backgrounds where PNG is used for all other graphics need including cliparts, buttons, headers, footers, borders and so on. As a result, these two...
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Sunday, April 06, 2008 3:49 PM

Fast page loading by moving ASP.NET AJAX scripts after visible content

ASP.NET ScriptManager control has a property LoadScriptsBeforeUI , when set to false , should load all AJAX framework scripts after the content of the page. But it does not effectively push down all scripts after the content. Some framework scripts, extender...
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Wednesday, January 30, 2008 3:47 PM

10 ASP.NET Performance and Scalability Secrets

ASP.NET 2.0 has many secrets, when revealed, can give you big performance and scalability boost. For instance, there are secret bottlenecks in Membership and Profile provider which can be solved easily to make authentication and authorization faster....
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