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Optimization of a Web Site - Using Content Expiration (IIS 6.0)

As you might know, I am running the French .NET portal Tech Head Brothers and I am always searching for good way to optimize it and make it run better.

Following the post of Jeremy Zawodny's blog: "How To Add Good Expires Headers to Images in Apache 1.3" I decided to check this on my server running Tech Head Brothers on IIS 6.0.

You can read more about the way to configure this option on technet "Using Content Expiration (IIS 6.0)".

After several tests I must say that yes it increase the performance of the site. I used the wonderful httpwatch 4.2 to run the tests.

The other optimization I did in the past:

  1. added compression to the site to optimize the load time of all the ASP.NET AJAX and Control Toolkit scripts and the page html
  2. modified the site to use less external files, I had multiple css files so migrated to almost one
  3. usage of the AJAX Control Toolkit - ToolkitScriptManager
Posted: Jul 25 2007, 10:54 AM by lkempe | with 8 comment(s)
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Comments

Sral said:

Good tip!!

So does Content Expiration work for images and css etc only or will it affect aspx pages as well?

# July 25, 2007 6:43 AM

lkempe said:

Sral: Thanks, it works for static content only, so aspx page aren't affected, but images and css are.

# July 25, 2007 7:12 AM

julien said:

and is the tip is what ???? at least the tips for apache are detailed...

what is the big information behind this article? I have to click on 'Use Content Expiration' just that ???????

# February 4, 2008 4:40 AM

lkempe said:

Julien: I don't understand your comment!?! Who is saying that there is a BIG infomration behind my post? I see at least four informations on it about optimization, without detail you are right but that wasn't the purpose of this post so...

# February 4, 2008 5:07 AM

Raja said:

lkempe, good infromation, thank you

# July 16, 2008 12:30 AM

Laurent Kempé said:

The other day I had to re-install my whole server which is hosting Tech Head Brothers . I had also to

# January 3, 2010 5:33 AM

Optimization of Web Site hosted on IIS 6 | I love .NET! said:

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# January 3, 2010 9:36 AM

Umair Jabbar said:

I have configured IIS 6.0 to send expires header but this is not happening, can anyone possibly give me a clue for this problem?

# January 30, 2010 4:03 AM
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