I just received my MSDN magazine today and noticed a cool little utility from Microsoft that could be used by developers that use Infragistics ASP.NET products. The utility is called Visual Roundtrip Analyzer. It's a web page performance visualizer and analyzer. The results it builds create charts and also summarizes what parts of the web page could be improved for better performance.
Just for kicks I tested the ASP.NET samples page from Infragistics and Telerik. Infragistics received an D grade, and toward the top of the report said that the site needs further improvement. Telerik received a C grade, and the top of the report said this site performs moderately.
So Infragistics....let's fix that up and kick Telerik's butt! ;)
I think I heard about YSlow while listening to the pixel8 podcast recently, or another one, I download too many to notice!
Playing with that analyzer gave me a few ideas for the webserver we have at work. For some reason we didn't have compression enabled and that alone improved the speed of transfer for a few clients we host.
Ha! Nice! I haven't gotten a D since 7th grade history class, so it's been a while.
Thanks for the link, I saw that article too. We have done some great stuff in Aikido, and are now fine tuning every bit or HTML and JavaScript that crosses the wire. So stay tuned to even better performance as we continue to create the best web grid on the market!
Another good tool for analyzing bits in the wire is Fiddler:
http://www.fiddlertool.com/fiddler/, as well as YSlow:
http://developer.yahoo.com/yslow/
I'll loop Taz in on this thread as well, he is the PM on our ASP.NET product and is very close to the code for everything we are doing.
Thanks
Jason