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Ask HN: Why do ASP websites load so damn slow?
Does it have to do with the VIEWSTATE and STATEHANDLER crap that is supposed to maintain page state between page loads?
Reason I ask is that I have been writing screeb scrapers for websites of which several are ASP ones and these scrapers are so damn slow compared to some of the other websites I've dealt with.
- benologist 15y agoIn addition to the myriad of reasons a page / site can be slow, with .NET if the site has to do a cold start, aka nobody's accessed it in a while (by default 20 minutes), it can take a significant amount of time to load it all up depending on various factors. If you know you're scraping a .NET site you could do a simple request a few minutes earlier so it shouldn't have to do a cold start.
- cancelbubble 15y agoASP = A Slow Page.