Slow Execution of an ASP.NET Web Page

Question

I have a web page which brings 13K+ records in 20 seconds. There is a menu on the page, clicking on which navigates me to another page which is very lightweight. Displaying the data (13K+) took only 20 seconds whereas navigating from that page took much longer, more than 2 mins. Can you tell me why is the latter taking so much of time. I've stopped the page_load code execution on click of the menu.

I've disabled the viewstate for that page as well.

Answer 1

I am stopping the page load when menu is clicked by finding out what triggered the postback, if it is the menu item then the code is not executed.

if(!IsPostBack || (IsPostBack && request.params["Event_Target"].Contains("TreeView1"))) { //Code goes here.. }

I am using IE 6.0. Only after the first page finishes loading, I'll be able to scroll through the page. Second page loads few labels and text boxes, no processing on page_load.

I am not sure where exactly the time is spent because if i move between two light pages, then its pretty fast, but if i load a huge resultset on a page and then i try to move to some other page, it takes unusually long.

Answer 2

I just placed ajax update panel on my page and what a difference. Navigating to the other page takes less than 2 seconds.