An often overlooked feature of IIS6.0 is that it natively supports compression of your web files. The problem is that it isn’t as easy as flipping the 2 check boxes on in the properties page for your site, there’s a bit of manual labor involved, namely manually editing some settings in the IIS metabase.
Here’s how to do it. Just a few minutes of your life, et voila…super speedy page loads (pages on JK.com decreased in size by 60% or more, and almost none of them are over 20kb now). The good news is that it won’t be this tedious in IIS7 (or so I’ve read at least).
Posted
Apr 06 2006, 06:50 PM
by
Jayson Knight