Improve website performance, scalability and save money - ASP.Net

ASP.Net, a server-side script, helps in delivering database driven and dynamic content by applying minimal effort to the clients. But this is not the only reason why it is used so widely by the developers. There are several techniques and tools which can be conveniently employed to improve the performance and scalability of the website. At the same time, ASP.Net is also a cost effective method to achieve these ends.

Measurement of time

In order to optimize the performance of any website it is important to find out where maximum time is spent on a website. A free tool called Fiddler can be used to achieve this end. It has a timeline feature that stores all the requests made on a website and how long each of them took. If you want you can also save an archive before further performance improvements can be added. Besides this, there is another tool, Keynote, which can also be used to measure the performance of a website. There are agents throughout the Internet which collect performance report at various intervals of the day. These reports can then be compared with the other primary Internet retailers to review the performance.

Http Compression

This is another way to improve the performance of the website. ASP.Net includes this technique to reduce bandwidth usage as well as increase the pace of loading for the webpages. This concept is quite similar to the way one generally compresses files on the system to save spaces. The IIS web servers are capable to compress both dynamic and static files by using the HTTP Compression component that is found in the web.config file. In this regard, it is important to note that smaller files are delivered at a greater speed on the Internet.

Minimizing and Consolidating

Minification is a process through which the file sizes can be reduced significantly. The contemporary websites mostly have various kinds of JavaScript and CSS files. Browsers generally have limited connections to the web server. As a result, the time taken to download all the files is quite long. Tools, like, YUI Compressor and AjaxMinifier help in minimizing. These files can then be also consolidated into a single file (or couple of files). This way the browser just needs to make a single request to the web server to get them.

Use of Browser Cache

This factor hugely improves the performance of a website. There are local cache locations in the browsers where copies of CSS, JavaScript and image files are stored from various websites. These default files stored here cannot be used next time a browser visits the website. When the browser downloads the same page again, he will find it already existing but cannot decide whether the information is updated. Hence, the web server must be contacted every time for a file and check whether the file is fresh. This takes a long time. To solve this issue the option is to take the help of expirations.

Data cache

ASP.Net is known for providing Cache objects that are impressive for storing data on the web server. It checks the database just once in a day and keeps the results appearing the Cache object. This enables the webpages to load faster and they also do not require waiting for the database response any longer.

Use CSS for indexing

This is another effective way for decreasing the number of requests required to get a page. This can be achieved by amalgamating a number of small image files into a larger file and ten make use of the CSS to index the larger image. As a result the individual images required for a webpage can be seen. There are several tools which can perform this task. They also the CSS styles needed to access every image.

Tools to test performance

Google Page speed and YSlow are tools which can be utilized to derive recommendations for improving the performance. These tools are quite effective in suggesting exactly which alterations should be made to ensure success.

Cost effective ownership

This is another USP of ASP.Net although it affects the owner of the website instead of the developer. Finding dot Net developers is not a big deal. The customers mostly opt for ASP.NET as it is cheaper and support for it is also easily available.

Owing to such advantages the ASP.Net open source server side framework is preferred to develop web applications when compared to the other frameworks. You can get in touch with a custom asp.net web development company who can help you develop web apps that are stable, scalable and secure.

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