Kurt Shintaku's Blog

This is a blatant repost of just the intro to a very interesting article from the folks that manage http://sharepoint.microsoft.com. 

How we did it: Speeding up SharePoint.Microsoft.com

SharePoint.Microsoft.com is a critical communications channel for SharePoint. We wanted to provide visitors with a rich and helpful experience and at the same time educate them on what SharePoint can do for their businesses. The site leverages our industry-leading web content management platform, and provides useful content and resources to the visitors. In addition, we also recognized that there were fundamental Internet challenges that needed to be overcome in order to improve page loading time, especially for our global visitors. We teamed up with Aptimize Software to optimize SharePoint.Microsoft.com for high performance.

Today’s guest post is by Ed Robinson, Chief Executive Officer of Aptimize Software. This post will review how we did it and the underlying performance techniques that improved the page loading speed of the SharePoint marketing website. We hope you can leverage the same process to optimize performance for other websites.

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Read the rest of the article at:
http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2009/09/28/how-we-did-it-speeding-up-sharepoint-microsoft-com.aspx