CSS/JS GZip Compression with Asp.Net. Testing your Internet Speed, Packet Loss, Jitter, and Latency > Aging Safely, Inc. Enable Gzip compression in IIS 6.0 for ASP.NET 2.0 websites. Introduction This step by step guide will show you how to enable Gzip compression to work with ASP.NET 2.0. Compressing the output should make your websites faster, especially when being viewed via a slow connection. Step 1: Enable Compression Using the IIS Manager Expand IIS Manager. Right click on Websites. Click Properties. Click the Service tab. Step 2: Install IIS 6.0 Resource Kit Tools You can download the free tool from Microsoft here. Step 3: Edit IIS Meta Database Open the IIS Metabase Explorer.
Step 3: Do IISReset That's it. How To Measure Front-end Website Performance - a knol by Syed Hassan. Using HTTP Compression for Faster Downloads (IIS 6.0) Enabling HTTP Compression (IIS 6.0) High Performance Web Sites. These rules are the key to speeding up your web pages. They've been tested on some of the most popular sites on the Internet and have successfully reduced the response times of those pages by 25-50%. The key insight behind these best practices is the realization that only 10-20% of the total end-user response time is spent getting the HTML document to the browser. You need to focus on the other 80-90% if you want to make your pages noticeably faster. These rules are the best practices for optimizing the way servers and browsers handle that 80-90% of the user experience.
These pages are the companion web site for the book High Performance Web Sites. The examples referenced in the book are hosted here. Navigate through the rules listed below to find the associated examples. Read more: