Sharepoint Web performance optimization

Question

We are running on SSL on following server topology:

1 ISA (SSL Terminate/cache/proxy+AD authentication)

1 Sharepoint

1 IBM DB2 Database as enterprise/corporate DB

1 MS SQL Server as local DB

We have recently optimized the caching, compression, minification, and other ASP.net best practices such as viewstate and cookie sizes, minimizing round trips, parallel connections/domain sharding and a lot more....

Now we are not convinced that the we are in an optimized position as the network resources i.e. bandwidth and especially latency are out of our control!!

The client/browser to server/sharepoint is trans-Atlantic i.e. (ASIA, USA, EUROPE).

As of my understanding the only ways to improve the network (latency) are: - TCP/SSL optimization - hardware/software? - CDNs - cloud or our own ?

Your opinion and insights would be much appreciated Best regards Hertzel

Answer 1

Thats not easy to answer..

1. Do you have high traffic volumes, e.g. how many concurrent users?
2. What -is- your latency? Ping times?
3. What bandwith is available to your server?
4. What bandwith is available to your clients?

Answer 2

Many factors impact the performance, Joel Oleson has written a post on this: http://www.slideshare.net/joeloleson/sharepoint-performance-optimization-in-10-steps-for-the-it-professional

You can try the commercial product "Aptimize", which optimizes your HTML/CSS/JS-code, reduces the load on your servers. aptimize.com/