An interesting article on using Fiddler to tune the performance of your website.
HTTP Performance: An overview
“It’s no secret-- users love fast websites. Users are notoriously impatient, and unless your website has no competitive substitute, users are unlikely to stick around if your site’s performance doesn’t measure up. If your site has visitors from around the world, ensuring your site operates efficiently is even more critical, as international network connections generally suffer from the twin banes of snappy sites: high latency and low bandwidth.
There are many options for improving your site’s performance: compression, caching, geographic load balancing, adding hardware, and so forth. Optimizing the use of compression and caching is often the best place to start, as configuration changes are generally free and can return dramatic benefits.
In this article, we’ll use the Microsoft Fiddler HTTP Debugger to explore HTTP performance, caching and compression.“
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