SharePoint 2013 - Time to first byte very slow

Hi all,

Below is a typical page load time for my SharePoint 2013 site.

I've looked at lots of different things, caching, distributed cached. Confirmed that all servers meet hardware requirements, etc. I'm just not sure what to do...

August 5th, 2013 8:27pm

Is this immediately after an Application Pool recycle or iisreset?  Sounds like the Web App is JIT'ing.
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August 5th, 2013 8:35pm

Sorry no, this is all the time.
August 5th, 2013 9:17pm

Have you looked into warm scripts? Initial page load is always slow.

http://sprickyrick.blogspot.com/2013/05/sharepoint-best-warm-up-script.html

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August 5th, 2013 10:21pm

  1. What's on that ASPX page?
  2. Do you get the same sort of load times for a clean team site?
  3. Are the page load times similar for other pages such as Site Settings?

For that sort of speed you've nearly always got either IIS Resets going on or a very badly written bit of custom code.

August 5th, 2013 10:43pm

1) Nothing a blank page

2) It is a clean team site, but with a blank page, other than Sams Test written on it

3) Yes

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August 5th, 2013 10:46pm

It doesn't look like lag based on the other two items but to confirm, are you connecting locally?

Are you getting any errors or resource spikes on the servers?

Can you enable the SharePoint dashboard and post us a screenshot of the load process?

I'm guessing there's no Web Application or farm scoped features in place either?
August 5th, 2013 10:55pm

Connecting locally.

No errors or spikes.

I believe it could be SQL underperforming.

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August 6th, 2013 9:43am

Can you run SQL Profiler while making the request?
August 6th, 2013 10:12pm

Have done any customization? try to run developer dashboard and analyse the result. Also check CPU utilization and RAM on the server
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August 7th, 2013 2:48am

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