>>I have a small ASP.NET application used by a number of customers. Yesterday one of the customers brought up an issue that it takes too much time on loading the first page. I tested on my PC (I use IE 6.0) and I can see the issue. It takes about 10 seconds to load the first page the first time. The good news is that after the first time, each subsequent load of the page is very fast (almost instantaneous). So it seems like there is some kind of caching issue here. My question is, is it the caching on the web server or Internet Explorer? What can I do to improve the speed of loading the main page the very first time?
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>I have the same issue also. For a .NET Web site, there is some kind of process that is running on the server and it takes time. Also, if the backend is SQL Server, it will take longer then if the backend is VFP as SQL Server also seems to do some additional process on the first hit.
My backend is still VFP so I think and agree with you that it must be something to do with .NET framework caching. I will probably post the question on asp.net forum to see if anybody knows of a switch/parameter on the server that can control the issue.
Thank you.
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