Browse by Tags

All Tags » performance (RSS)
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...
Posted by omar | 7 comment(s)
Filed under: , , , ,
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...
Posted by omar | 1 comment(s)
Filed under: , , ,
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...
Posted by omar | 17 comment(s)
Filed under: , , ,
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...
Posted by omar | 11 comment(s)
Filed under: , , , , ,
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...
Posted by omar | 3 comment(s)
Filed under: , , , , , , ,
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...
Posted by omar | 12 comment(s)
Filed under: , , ,
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....
Posted by omar | 3 comment(s)
Filed under: , , , ,
Monday, October 01, 2007 3:31 PM

Make your website faster using Content Delivery Network

Every request from a browser goes to your server traveling through the Internet backbones that spans the world. The number of countries, continents, oceans a request has to go through to reach your server, the slower it is. For example, if you have your...
Posted by omar | 6 comment(s)
Filed under:
Wednesday, September 19, 2007 8:46 AM

A significant part of sql server process memory has been paged out. This may result in performance degradation

If you are using SQL Sever Server standard edition 64 bit on a Windows 2003 64bit, you will frequently encounter this problem where SQL Server says: A significant part of sql server process memory has been paged out. This may result in performance degradation...
Posted by omar | 19 comment(s)
Filed under: , , , ,
Wednesday, September 13, 2006 1:31 PM

Calculate code block execution time using "using"

Here's an interesting way to calculate the execution time of a code block: private void SomeFunction() { using ( new TimedLog(Profile.UserName, " Some Function " )) { ... ... } } You get an output like this: 6/14/2006 10:58:26 AM 4b1f6098...
Posted by omar | 2 comment(s)
Filed under: