I am testing an intranet site on a POS system. The inital load sometimes takes 30-45 seconds. After the initial load, most pages load in 2-5 seconds, some 9. Is there any explanation for taking so long? This happens when the site was not recompiling. I've even taken off pictures and the banner to time the page loads with text/formatting only. We are using a customized, scaled down version of IE6.

Any advice/insight would be greatly appreciated.

I was aware of the initial re-compile, but this occurs after the site has been visited many times during testing. So, I know the worker process has not been idle long enough to sleep. Keepalive service would be a good suggestion for those times, though.

What performance settings are more efficient? I am using a web farm with file replication services.

Thanks for the link to PageBlaster. It sounds great. Are many people using this successfully? There were no reviews for the 3.3.2 version.