Website Performance

I published a website to Windows Server 2008 Standard with IIS 7 installed. I
get excellent performance when accessing the site using IE form computers
with Windows XP or Vista upgraded from XP. I get poor performance with a PC
with Vista factory installed or from an Apple Macbook.

I used Expression Web 2 and disk based publishing. Front Page extension are
not installed.

Is there any reason why this should happen?
--
Thanks, Bob

No. What content are you accessing - server rendered (e.g. aspx) or client
rendered (e.g. complex stylesheets, xml transformations, etc.)?

It could be that the network config on those clients are not correct and
they are spending a lot of time doing a name resolution call, or that they
are hitting a proxy, etc.

I would setup a 'hello world' .htm page and hit it from all three - the
speed should be identical. If there is a notable lag, then the issue is
likely with the network config.


Pat



"Bob" <Bob@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I published a website to Windows Server 2008 Standard with IIS 7 installed.
>I
> get excellent performance when accessing the site using IE form computers
> with Windows XP or Vista upgraded from XP. I get poor performance with a
> PC
> with Vista factory installed or from an Apple Macbook.
>
> I used Expression Web 2 and disk based publishing. Front Page extension
> are
> not installed.
>
> Is there any reason why this should happen?
> --
> Thanks, Bob

Bob wrote on Sun, 24 Aug 2008 12:52:07 -0700:

> I published a website to Windows Server 2008 Standard with IIS 7
> installed. I get excellent performance when accessing the site using
> IE form computers with Windows XP or Vista upgraded from XP. I get
> poor performance with a PC with Vista factory installed or from an
> Apple Macbook.

> I used Expression Web 2 and disk based publishing. Front Page extension
> are not installed.

> Is there any reason why this should happen?
> --

The only reasons for slower performance should be due to the client
browsers. For instance, on the XP and Vista upgraded machines does IE7 have
the Phishing Filter enabled? The Vista clean machine likely does, and I find
this severely impacts performance. There might be other settings that are
also causing it to run slower due to it doing more work in the background.

As to the Macbook, it could be down to the browser being used or something
else installed on the machine, but it's not something you can directly
compare to the XP and Vista machines because the OS and the browser are
entirely different.

--
Dan

> Is there any reason why this should happen?

What's the site? Any RAM hungry client-side things going on? (Massive
javascript? AJAX? Flash? Etc?)

-Darrel