Fast ASP.NET Websites

Summary

Fast ASP.NET Websites delivers just what it promises—practical, hands-on guidance to create faster, more efficient ASP.NET sites and applications. This book offers step-by-step .NET-specific examples showing you how to apply classic page optimization tips, ASP.NET-specific techniques, and ways to leverage new HTML5 features.

About the Technology

There's a real cost to inefficient HTTP requests, overloaded data streams and bulky scripts. Server throughput is a precious commodity and seconds—even tiny fractions of a second—can seem like an eternity while a visitor waits for your site to load. As an ASP.NET developer, there are dozens of techniques you can apply immediately to make your sites and applications faster. You'll find them here.

About this Book

Fast ASP.NET Websites delivers just what it promises—practical, hands-on guidance to create faster, more efficient ASP.NET sites and applications. This book offers step-by-step .NET-specific examples showing you how to apply classic page optimization tips, ASP.NET-specific techniques, and ways to leverage new HTML5 features.

Readers should be familiar with basic HTML, CSS, and ASP.NET concepts.

What's Inside

• Drastically improved response times
• Tips for Webforms and ASP.NET MVC sites
• Optimizing existing pages
• .NET-specific examples

About the Author

Dean Hume is a software developer and blogger based in the U.K. A passionate techie, he created the ASP.NET HTML5 toolkit and blogs regularly about web performance at www.deanhume.com.

Table of Contents

PART 1 DEFINING PERFORMANCE
1. High-speed websites
2. First steps toward a faster website
PART 2 GENERAL PERFORMANCE BEST PRACTICES
3. Compression
4. Caching: The sell-by date
5. Minifying and bundling static files
6. HTML optimization tips
7. Image optimization
8. ETags
9. Content Delivery Networks
PART 3 ASP.NET-SPECIFIC TECHNIQUES
10. Tweaking ASP.NET MVC performance
11. Tweaking ASP.NET Web Forms performance
12. Data caching

Dean Alan Hume is a software developer based in the UK. He has written the HTML5 toolkit for ASP.NET MVC and is passionate about high performance websites. Dean is also a full-time developer working in the trenches on front-line web applications. He regularly writes articles based on software development on his blog at deanhume.com.