Since there's been some reports recently about poor performance of this site, I checked to make sure HTTP compression was enabled using Port80 Software's test. I was surprised to find it wasn't and was wondering why, as I plan to have it enabled on my community. It's one of the easiest and most dramatic improvements in performance you can make for a web site, not to mention the savings in bandwidth.
The issue seems to be that when you are using http handlers, the IIS compression settings do not apply to ASPX pages. I had this issue when using URL rewriting on a non-CS site. I tried adding HTTP compression in global.asax,which IE had trouble with, perhaps because non-rewritten pages were encrypted twice: http://www.stardeveloper.com/articles/display.html?article=2007110401&page=1
I then added compression to my base page class just for the pages with rewritten URL's, which seems to work ok.
This is on our todo list. It is actually pretty easy to setup with IIS 6, it just has not happened yet since we switched domains.
Thanks,Scott
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Thanks for pointing this out! We have enabled and configured IIS HTTP Compression.
Here is a great post/article by Scott Forsyth's IIS Compression in IIS6.0
Rick Reszler
Glad I could help!
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