Why do my ASP.NET pages render slowly when placed on the server?

Question

I have a simple aspx page with a GridView control. I\'m loading the GridView with search results after the click of a button. Everything works, but the HTML rendering on the bro

Answer 1

If you're not already compressing the HTTP Response, you should look into doing that.

• Look at Yslow for FireFox (start here)
• Compress your response with standard gzip/deflate compression
• Do what you can to reduce the amount of data in your GridView. Elminate unecessary columns, etc.
• Turn off viewstate
• Use jsmin to reduce the size of your JavaScript files (if any)
• Reduce the size of your CSS (if any)