ATLAS Loading times across Dialup - Developers Anonymous
Wednesday, July 19, 2006 4:46 AM Trivium DawnWalker

ATLAS Loading times across Dialup

Discovered something very interesting yesterday. We have website that is nearing completion and we decided to test it via a dialup connection. Every page that incorporated ATLAS took 10-15 seconds to load. after that the page work brilliantly but still, it takes too long.

Now I'm left wondering whether its the 207 Page ATLAS framework script file that is taking so long to load or whether this is just an issue with it being a BETA release. I suppose only time will tell.

We have still to leave the atlas framework in the project as the benefits of it justify the initial loading times but it'll be nice if we could avoid that initial load.

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# ATLAS Loading times across Dialup

Wednesday, July 19, 2006 6:52 AM by DotNetKicks.com

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# re: ATLAS Loading times across Dialup

Wednesday, July 19, 2006 9:25 AM by Armand du Plessis

Have you looked at enabling http compression [1] in IIS? This should bring down the load time significantly if the script file can be sent down in compressed form.

We had a similar problem with a Sharepoint based portal a couple of years back where the pages were quite heavy, enabling http compression significantly improved the download times and I've been enabling it where possible ever since.

[1]  http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/WindowsServer2003/Library/IIS/d52ff289-94d3-4085-bc4e-24eb4f312e0e.mspx?mfr=true

# re: ATLAS Loading times across Dialup

Wednesday, July 19, 2006 9:44 AM by Trivium DawnWalker

Thanks a lot Armand,

We'll test it just now and check the performance. I'll post here what it did/didn't do ;)

# re: ATLAS Loading times across Dialup

Wednesday, July 19, 2006 2:53 PM by Trivium DawnWalker

what a difference, the boost is amazing! Thanks again

# re: ATLAS Loading times across Dialup

Wednesday, July 19, 2006 3:06 PM by Armand du Plessis

Can buy me a beer some time :P

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