Loads quickly for me.

The reason why it loaded quickly for you is because the site was still in memory. By default, ASP.Net apps will stay in mem for 20 mins. I question is there a way to always keep the site in memory?

Actually it is not that. The very first hit takes time. From then onwards performance would be good, until you refresh your webserver.

Do you know what can be done about it??

Pre-compile everything....

what do you mean by "pre-compile"? Could you give me an example?

Paul Wilson has developed a pre-compile app, but I have not tried it yet:
http://aspalliance.com/PaulWilson/Articles/?id=9
I downloaded it. There is very little code to it. You can add the code yourself or use his own assembly.

Thanks alot!!

You could use .dll's in the GAC. The .dll don't need to use the JIT. I haven't used that technique, but I do recall the subject and that it would really increase load speed. I will go back and find where it was referenced and give you that information, book, chapt, author etc.

Yep. You are right. We did that in our current project. We have developed our own framework, which actually serializes the UI completely and then the same serialized UI Data is used for various by-apps and other apps. Initially we did put that one local. The we thought, why can't we push it to GAC, so it would be shared among the applications and thence loading multiple copies of the same, when all the apps are hosted on the same box and running on top of same runtime. This framework comprises UI, security and some XML stuff used to serialize the UI and security roles. Then really the app started performing very well and loads faster.

Could u post a link

Wait for a week, once our system goes into production, I could post the framework design and code here. :-)