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Best Practices to Improve ASP.Net Web Application Performance. Part -1

Performance tuning can be tricky. It's especially tough in Internet-related projects with lots of components running
around, like HTML client, HTTP network, Web server, middle-tier components, database components, resourcemanagement components, TCP/IP networks, and database servers. Performance tuning depends on a lot of parameters and sometimes, by changing a single parameter, performance can increase drastically.

Introduction
This document lists out some tips for optimizing ASP.Net Web applications and many traps and pitfalls are discussed as follows :

Tips For Web Application
1) Turn off Tracing unless until required
Tracing is one of the wonderful features which enable us to track the application's trace and the sequences. However,
again it is useful only for developers and you can set this to "false" unless you require to monitor the trace logging.
How it affects performance:
Enabling tracing adds performance overhead and might expose private information, so it should be enabled only while
an application is being actively analyzed.
Solution:
When not needed, tracing can be turned off using


2) Turn off Session State, if not required
One extremely powerful feature of ASP.NET is its ability to store session state for users, such as a shopping cart on an e-commerce site or a browser history. How it affects performance: Since ASP.NET Manages session state by default, you pay the cost in memory even if you don't use it. I.e. whether you
store your data in in-process or on state server or in a Sql Database, session state requires memory and it's also time consuming when you store or retrieve data from it.
Solution:
You may not require session state when your pages are static or when you do not need to store information captured in the page. In such cases where you need not use session state, disable it on your web form using the directive,
<@%Page EnableSessionState="false"%>
In case you use the session state only to retrieve data from it and not to update it, make the session state read only by
using the directive,
<@%Page EnableSessionState ="ReadOnly"%>

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