How do I improve ASP NET MVC application performance

Question

How do you improve your ASP NET MVC application performance

User · Answer

I did all the answers above and it just didn't solve my problem.

Finally, I solved my slow site loading problem with setting PrecompileBeforePublish in Publish Profile to true. If you want to use msbuild you can use this argument:

 /p:PrecompileBeforePublish=true

It really help a lot. Now my MVC ASP.NET loads 10 times faster.

User · Answer

Implement Gzip  Use asynchronous rendering for partial views  Minimize database hits  Use a compiled query  Run a profiler and find out unnecessary hits  Optimize all stored procedures which are taking more than 1 second to return a response  Use caching  Use bundling minification optimization  Use HTML 5 utilities like session cache and local storage for readonly contents

User · Answer

I will also add    Use Sprites  Sprites are a great thing to reduce a request  You merge all your images into a single one and use CSS to get to good part of the sprite  Microsoft provides a good library to do it  Sprite and Image Optimization Preview 4  Cache Your server object  If you have some references lists or data which will change rarely  you can cache them into memory instead of querying database every time  Use ADO NET instead of Entity Framework  EF4 or EF5 are great to reduce development time  but it will be painful to optimize  It s more simple to optimize a stored procedure than Entity Framework  So you should use store procedures as much as possible  Dapper provides a simple way to query and map SQL with very good performance  Cache Page or partial page  MVC provides some easy filter to cache page according to some parameters  so use it  Reduce Database calls  You can create a unique database request that returns multiple objects  Check on Dapper website  Always have a clean architecture  Have a clean n-tiers architecture  even on a small project  It will help you to keep your code clean  and it will be easier to optimize it if needed  You can take a look at this template  Neos-SDI MVC Template  which will create a clean architecture for you with lots of performance improvements by default  check MvcTemplate website

User · Answer

Code Climber and this blog entry provide detailed ways of increasing application s performance    Compiled query will increase performance of your application  but it has nothing in common with ASP NET MVC  It will speed up every db application  so it is not really about MVC

User · Answer

Not an earth-shattering optimization  but I thought I d throw this out there - Use CDN s for jQuery  etc    Quote from ScottGu himself  The Microsoft Ajax CDN enables you to significantly improve the performance of ASP NET Web Forms and ASP NET MVC applications that use ASP NET AJAX or jQuery  The service is available for free  does not require any registration  and can be used for both commercial and non-commercial purposes   We even use the CDN for our webparts in Moss that use jQuery

User · Answer

1  Get Timings  Until you know where the slowdown is  the question is too broad to answer  A project I m working on has this precise problem  There s no logging to even know how long certain things take  we can only guess as to the slow parts of the app until we add timings to the project   2  If you have sequential operations  Don t be afraid to lightly multithread  ESPECIALLY if blocking operations are involved  PLINQ is your friend here   3  Pregenerate your MVC Views when Publishing    That will help with some of the  first page hit   4  Some argue for the stored procedure ADO advantages of speed  Others argue for speed of development of EF and a more clear seprataion of tiers and their purpose  I ve seen really slow designs when SQL and the workarounds to use Sprocs Views for data retrieval and storage  Also  your difficulty to test goes up  Our current codebase that we are converting from ADO to EF is not performing any worse  and in some cases better  than the old Hand-Rolled model   5  That said  Think about application Warmup  Part of what we do to help eliminate most of our EF performance woes was to add a special warmup method  It doesn t precompile any queries or anything  but it helps with much of the metadata loading generation  This can be even more important when dealing with Code First models   6  As others have said  Don t use Session state or ViewState if possible  They are not necessarily performance optimizations that developers think about  but once you start writing more complex web applications  you want responsiveness  Session state precludes this  Imagine a long running query  You decide to open a new window and try a less complex one  Well  you may as well have waited with session state on  because the server will wait until the first request is done before moving to the next one for that session   7  Minimize round trips to the database  Save stuff that you frequently use but will not realistically change to your  Net Cache  Try to batch your inserts updates where possible   7 1  Avoid Data Access code in your Razor views without a damn good reason  I wouldn t be saying this if I hadn t seen it  They were already accessing their data when putting the model together  why the hell weren t they including it in the model

User · Answer

In your clamour to optimize the client side  don t forget about the database layer  We had an application that went from 5 seconds to load up to 50 seconds overnight   On inspection  we d made a whole bunch of schema changes  Once we refreshed the statistics  it suddenly became as responsive as before

User · Answer

If you are running your ASP NET MVC application on Microsoft Azure  IaaS or PaaS   then do the following at least at before the first deployment    Scan your code with static code analyzer for any type of code debt  duplication  complexity and for security  Always enable the Application Insight  and monitor the performance  browsers  and analytics frequently to find the real-time issues in the application  Implement Azure Redis Cache for static and less frequent change data like Images  assets  common layouts etc  Always rely on APM  Application Performance Management  tools provided by Azure  See application map frequently to investigate the communication performance between internal parts of the application  Monitor Database VM performance too  Use Load Balancer  Horizontal Scale  if required and within the budget  If your application has the target audience all over the globe  then use Azure Trafic Manager to automatically handle the incoming request and divert it to the most available application instance  Try to automate the performance monitoring by writing the alerts based on low performance

User · Answer

When accessing data via LINQ rely on IQueryable      Why use AsQueryable   instead of List         and leverge a good Repository pattern   Loading Subrecords in the Repository Pattern  This will optimize data access to ensure only the data needed is loaded and when only it is needed

User · Answer

Using Bundling and Minification also helps you improve the performance  It basically reduces the page loading time

User · Answer

In addition to all the great information on optimising your application on the server side I d say you should take a look at YSlow  It s a superb resource for improving site performance on the client side   This applies to all sites  not just ASP NET MVC

User · Answer

The basic suggestion is to follow REST principles and the following points ties some of these principals to the ASP NET MVC framework    Make your controllers stateless - this is more of a  Web performance   scalability  suggestion  as opposed to micro machine level performance  and a major design decision that would affect your applications future - especially in case it becomes popular or if you need some fault tolerance for example    Do not use Sessions Do not use tempdata - which uses sessions Do not try to  cache  everything  prematurely    Use Forms Authentication   Keep your frequently accessed sensitive data in the authentication ticket  Use cookies for frequently accessed non sensitive information Make your resources cachable on the web   Utilize ETags Use expiration Write your custom ActionResult classes if necessary Utilize reverse proxies  Compile your JavaScript  There is Closure compiler library to do it as well  sure there are others  just search for  JavaScript compiler  too  Use CDNs  Content Delivery Network  - especially for your large media files and so on  Consider different types of storage for your data  for example  files  key value stores  etc  - not only SQL Server Last but not least  test your web site for performance

User · Answer

Also if you use NHibernate you can turn on and setup second level cache for queries and add to queries scope and timeout  And there is kick ass profiler for EF  L2S and NHibernate - http   hibernatingrhinos com products UberProf  It will help to tune your queries

User · Answer

Following are things to do    Kernel mode Cache Pipeline mode  Remove unused modules runAllManagedModulesForAllRequests Don t write in wwwroot Remove unused view engines and language

User · Answer

This may seem obvious  but run your site in Release mode  not Debug mode  when in production  and also during performance profiling  Release mode is much faster  Debug mode can hide performance problems in your own code

User · Answer

One super easy thing to do is to think asynchronously when accessing the data you want for the page   Whether reading from a web service  file  data base or something else   use the async model as much as possible   While it won t necessarily help any one page be faster it will help your server perform better overall

User · Answer

A compiled list of possible sources of improvement are below   General   Make use of a profiler to discover memory leaks and performance problems in your application  personally I suggest dotTrace Run your site in Release mode  not Debug mode  when in production  and also during performance profiling  Release mode is much faster  Debug mode can hide performance problems in your own code    Caching     Use CompiledQuery Compile   recursively  avoiding recompilation of your query expressions Cache not-prone-to-change content using OutputCacheAttribute to save unnecessary and action executions Use cookies for frequently accessed non sensitive information Utilize ETags and expiration - Write your custom ActionResult methods if necessary Consider using the RouteName to organize your routes and then use it to generate your links  and try not to use the expression tree based ActionLink method   Consider implementing a route resolution caching strategy Put repetitive code inside your PartialViews  avoid render it xxxx times  if you end up calling the same partial 300 times in the same view  probably there is something wrong with that  Explanation And Benchmarks   Routing   Use Url RouteUrl  User   new   username    joeuser     to specify routes  ASP NET MVC Perfomance by Rudi Benkovic Cache route resolving using this helper UrlHelperCached ASP NET MVC Perfomance by Rudi Benkovic   Security   Use Forms Authentication  Keep your frequently accessed sensitive data in the  authentication ticket   DAL   When accessing data via LINQ rely on IQueryable Leverage the Repository pattern Profile your queries i e  Uber Profiler Consider second level cache for your queries and add them an scope and a timeout i e  NHibernate Second Cache    Load balancing   Utilize reverse proxies  to spread the client load across your app instance   Stack Overflow uses HAProxy  MSDN   Use Asynchronous Controllers to implement actions that depend on external resources processing    Client side   Optimize your client side  use a tool like YSlow for suggestions to improve performance Use AJAX to update components of your UI  avoid a whole page update when possible  Consider implement a pub-sub architecture -i e  Comet- for content delivery against reload based in timeouts  Move charting and graph generation logic to the client side if possible  Graph generation is a expensive activity  Deferring to the client side your server from an unnecessary burden  and allows you to work with graphs locally without make a new request  i e  Flex charting  jqbargraph  MoreJqueryCharts   Use CDN s for scripts and media content  to improve loading on the client side  i e  Google CDN  Minify -Compile- your JavaScript in order to improve your script size Keep cookie size small  since cookies are sent to the server on every request  Consider using DNS and Link Prefetching when possible    Global configuration   If you use Razor  add the following code in your global asax cs  by default  Asp Net MVC renders with an aspx engine and a razor engine  This only uses the RazorViewEngine    ViewEngines Engines Clear    ViewEngines Engines Add new RazorViewEngine     Add gzip  HTTP compression  and static cache  images  css       in your web config   lt system webServer gt       lt urlCompression doDynamicCompression  true  doStaticCompression  true  dynamicCompressionBeforeCache  true   gt    lt  system webServer gt  Remove unused HTTP Modules Flush your HTML as soon as it is generated  in your web config  and disable viewstate if you are not using it  lt pages buffer  true  enableViewState  false  gt

User · Answer

Just wanted to add my 2 cents  The MOST effective way to optimize the URL route generation in an MVC application is    not generate them at all   Most of us more or less know how URLs are generated in our apps anyway  so simply using static Url Content    Blahblah   instead of Url Action   or Url RouteUrl   where possible  beats all other methods by almost 20 times and even more   PS  I ve ran a benchmark of couple of thousand iterations and posted results on my blog if interested

User · Answer

Use the latest version of Task Parallel Library  TPL   according to  Net version  Have to choose the correct modules of TPL for different purposes

[.net] How do I improve ASP.NET MVC application performance?

Examples related to .net

Examples related to asp.net-mvc

Examples related to performance

Examples related to iis