Hello, All of the end users that are utilizing SharePoint in my organization are experiencing slowness when loading the main homepage of the site collection. I've seen other topics mention that this is an issue to some users when they first access the site during the day, but this is not the case in my scenerio. Every time a user hits the homepage, it takes 20-30 seconds to load. If they navigate to any other pages in the collection, there is no slowness. Has anyone experienced this before and point me in the direction of a solution? Thanks!

Hello Chroma914, This first page do they have connections to databases? or webpart with charts? are you using custom develomp on your homepage, that use spweb and spsite that can make some timeout or memory leak? How many webpart you have on your homepage "verify if you have close webpart" use the maintenance page to verify if you have closed webparts, if this is true can be a cause for taking to long..., the page will only render untill all webpart page are load, you can have some timmout or other problem acessing to files. Can recomend use fiddler to verify the call of files and how big is your html source and the traffic of stream, other thing you can do is active the httpcompreesion, but allways recomend verify and make efficiente the code.Andr Lage Microsoft SharePoint, CRM and Sybase Consultant Blog:http://aaclage.blogspot.com Codeplex:http://spupload.codeplex.com/http://simplecamlsearch.codeplex.com/

Also I would like to add here if the home page has got loads of static content? For improving the performance you can go for object caching, output caching and also blob caching.. which can improve the performance. For more information, you can have a look at the link below. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc298466(office.12).aspx

On our homepage, we have a few static list webparts, and a news article webpart (custom WP) that displays the latest article as a picture, and lists to the side, the last 5 news articles from our news center site. We also have a custom webpart that displays the last 10 files a user has accessed in the site collection. We don't have any caching enabled. Do you think that will help, even with the webparts we have?

yes output caching can help, if you have the publishing features active, will help but this for me is allways the last thing, verify how do you calling the list and making the querys on Lists. White paper: Working with large lists in Office SharePoint Server 2007 and verify how are you using to list the listitem dont use the foreach and use the for cycle on listitem...Andr Lage Microsoft SharePoint, CRM and Sybase Consultant Blog:http://aaclage.blogspot.com Codeplex:http://spupload.codeplex.com/http://simplecamlsearch.codeplex.com/

I set up output caching on our site collection and it didn't seem to help at all. Another end user commented that it actually took longer than usual. The strange thing is that I also set up the same output caching on our dev instance, which mirrors our production instance, and there was a noticeable increase in speed on the dev homepage.

Do you have IIS7 or IIS6, you can active the httpcompression or use the blobcache. Here a link you can use to improve performance "How to Optimize a SharePoint Server 2007 Web Content Management Site for Performance" http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb727371(office.12).aspx Another thing what type of page are you using "Webpart Page" or "PublishingLayoutPage" on homepage? <%@ Page language="C#" Inherits="Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing.PublishingLayoutPage, Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing, Version=12.0.0.0,Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c" %> If you dont use the PublishingLayoutPage the output cache is not very eficient... André Lage Microsoft SharePoint, CRM and Sybase Consultant Blog:http://aaclage.blogspot.com Codeplex:http://spupload.codeplex.com/http://simplecamlsearch.codeplex.com/