The IIS "Go Fast" button

As a group of young IT developers in Sydney, we used to joke about hitting the "go fast button" to increase an applications performance. I was stunned to find such a beastie in IIS 6 and overjoyed to reap the benefits of HTTP Compression.

 

HTTP compression provides faster transmission time between compression-enabled browsers and IIS. You can configure your system to provide compression for almost any type of file, static or dynamic i.e. ASP, JSP, PHP, HTM, CSS, JS etc.
By adding HTTP compression, you can significantly boost your web site performance.

Instruction on how to configure IIS to use HTTP compression are found here:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/WindowsServer2003/Library/IIS/d52ff289-94d3-4085-bc4e-24eb4f312e0e.mspx?mfr=true

To assess whether your site is already using compression, check out the Real-Time Acceleration Report at http://www.pipeboost.com

 


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