In the Maching.config file, there is a "deployment" element that you can add and set that will help in this area. Once set, this element will tell the ASP.NET process ignore several security and performance related settings that may have been left enabled inadvertently in the web.config and deployed...

GZip/Deflate compression will compress the response payload from the IIS web server to the browser. Pages that seem to run fast on the server but run slow over the network will see a big speed increase. I typically see around a 60% to 70% reduction in network traffic with GZip enabled. This could mean...