IIS Compression Praise -- Help with Infragistics
I recently received an email from OrcsWeb advising they were about to enable compression on the shared server I use. The results were great--thanks Brad and the gang at www.OrcsWeb.com.
This jogged my thinking about a problem I've had with one of my clients who hosts several applications on his private web servers. The applications rely heavily on Infragistic's Web Grid which produces huge JavaScript downloads to the client's browser. We've struggled with performance for over a year now.
I suggested to my client that he try installing compression on his servers. The results were awesome. I'll post some actual numbers as we quantify the improvement. Since these applications rely very little on graphics, the compression of the text is just amazing.
I hope this simple solution helps others who may have had similar problems with client side controls that require large JavaScript downloads.