ASP.Net application slow to load - VS2008

Question

This is my set up on a stage server

compiled my web application

published website

copied the output directory from my machine to stage server

created domain account

created virtual site on a static IP

website runs under domain account created

impersonate set too true as windows integrated authentication is used with sql server

Now first time i hit my stage site, the page is slow to load which i understand, but subsequent request do take a while for the page to load.

planning to run wire shark to see what the traffic is. is there anything else that i should look for?

Note: My IIS and SQL are on the same machine.

Answer 1

What browser are you using? For me, if I use Firefox with firebug all my web apps load very slow, all the time! If you're using Firefox, try IE or Chrome to check if that's the case.

Answer 2

You should run it through a profiler to see what it is spending so much time on. SQL Server includes it's own nice query profiler, and if you want a free profiler for .net, there's nprof. If you want to pay for a profiler for .Net, and it's probably worth it in the long run, there's lots of good offerings available.

Answer 3

Am using IE. Will try and run with nprof.

Answer 4

Kibbee, So i downloaded the latest version of nprof. i tried to attach it to my web app and when i click on the 'file' menu of nprof, it gives me no option of attaching to my web site

Answer 5

Can you define slow? how many seconds?

Definitely check the queries to sql server to see what they are doing.

There is always task manager and take a look at cpu/memory. It is not hard to peg a single cpu for example. Anything else on the server?

When having problems I always like to have an empty aspx page just to eliminate other issues.