Not my subject but I'd just use Server Manager to remove any un-needed roles. OTOH if they were not actually being used then the overhead saved would probably be minimal.

How much data is being returned to the page? Have you tried accessing the same page from the intranet yet?

>Thanks for your reply. Is there a setting somewhere in the OS (Windows Server 2008 R2) where I can set all (or most) of the server resources to IIS? This server is used strictly for the web app and I'm thinking that maybe this might help also. Also, I am using IIS 7.5.
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>>Whether the Intranet connection will supply a faster response depends on *why* the Internet response takes 3 seconds in the first place. It should certainly be faster to actually deliver a page (but no faster in the composing of it) IAC if you are using IIS you can easily configure it to respond to both the external IP and a local network address (e.g 10.x.x.x). If you need more detail on how to do so just shout......