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Why is my IIS hosted site so slow on first load?
The slow reaction on your first request is because IIS only starts/loads a site or application pool on it’s first incoming request. And after a fixed amount of time no new incoming requests arrive at the server IIS stops the site again (app pool recycling). ASP.NET 4.0 has a new feature called auto-start.
Change the title, description, and logo for your SharePoint Server site
- Go to your site.
- In the top right corner, click Settings , or in top left, click Site Actions .
- Click Site Settings.
- Under Look and Feel, click Title, description, and logo.
- Update the Title field.
What should I do if my SharePoint website is slow?
Once you have identified that an issue specific to your site, the recommended way to figure out what is causing poor performance is to eliminate all of the possible causes, like page customizations, and then add them back to the site one by one.
The best way to determine your site’s performance weak points is to set up a completely out-of-the-box site collection in SharePoint Online. This way you can compare all the various aspects of your site with what you would get with no customization on the page.
By taking a value for a baseline site (without customization), it is possible to determine if any given file is taking a long time to load. The example used in Navigation options for SharePoint Online is the main .aspx file.
Why does SharePoint Online take so long to load?
The article Navigation options for SharePoint Online shows an example of using the SPRequestDuration value to determine that the complicated structural navigation was causing the page to take a long time to process on the server.