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ASP.NET Site Performance Secrets

You're reading from   ASP.NET Site Performance Secrets Simple and proven techniques to quickly speed up your ASP.NET website

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2010
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849690683
Length 456 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Mattijs Perdeck Mattijs Perdeck
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Table of Contents (19) Chapters Close

ASP.NET Site Performance Secrets
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
1. Preface
1. High Level Diagnosis FREE CHAPTER 2. Reducing Time to First Byte 3. Memory 4. CPU 5. Caching 6. Thread Usage 7. Reducing Long Wait Times 8. Speeding up Database Access 9. Reducing Time to Last Byte 10. Compression 11. Optimizing Forms 12. Reducing Image Load Times 13. Improving JavaScript Loading 14. Load Testing

Chapter 5. Caching

Caching lets you store web pages on the visitor's browser, intermediate proxies, and in server memory. It also lets you store data objects in server memory. This way, there is no need to regenerate these items for every individual web page request. As a result, you improve responsiveness and reduce the load on the CPU and database.

ASP.NET's caching feature is very easy-to-use, requiring only a simple line to cache a web page. Server memory is cheap, and browser and proxy memory cost you nothing. That makes caching a low cost, high-payoff way to improve performance.

This chapter takes you through the five types of caching, and shows how to use them:

  • Browser caching: Lets you store files in the browser cache itself, so that there is no need for the browser to request them over the Internet.

  • Proxy caching: Lets you store files in the proxy computers that responses from the server travel through as they make their way over the Internet.

  • Output caching: Lets you cache .aspx...

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