I am building an ASP.NET application. I'm experiencing some slow load times so I checked out the traffic using Fiddler. It seems that the page itself is loading in around 3 seconds.
OK, it's kind of slow, but what baffles me is how long the js, css, and image assets take to load, even when they're being cached. It is taking the HTTP request 3 seconds before it responds with a 304. Now, I've done my share of web development, and my understanding is that a 304 response should not take 3 seconds.
My suspicion is that the server that the app is hosted is too weak. It is a VM running Windows Server 2K8 SP2 with about 2GB of memory, and the physical machine has at least one other VM running concurrently. Before I go and get myself a new server, does the lack of power in the machine sound like a possible cause of this problem?
Note: Latency should not be a problem; I'm accessing it through an intranet.