Hi today I will talk briefly about performance of moss based WCM sites.

For my project performance is paramount and we are already trying to work out some difficult issues on the page size and other related issues. First and foremost is the size of the aspx pages server by moss, issue here is that some of the js files added to aspx pages to handle the moss related functionality increasing the size of the page by about 300k which is a huge increase if you are talking about an INTERNET facing site and when the requirement is to support millions of users a day and to have a good response time for pages on most types of connections (less than 5 seconds load time). In normal circumstances this is not a very difficult task to achieve but for a site in moss with the js files and lots of images to make the site look interesting this becomes a real challenge. There are two issues here the size of the page and pages being servered from sql server. I found a very interesting blog on how to improve on server side performance using various features built into MOSS 2007 which I will try in next few days and post my findings here. For the size issue I am still trying various approaches like IIS 6 compression etc. and we will see how it goes from here.

 For server side performance here is the link (very interesting read any way)

 https://blogs.msdn.com/ecm/archive/2006/11/08/how-to-make-your-moss-2007-web-site-faster-with-caching.aspx