Professional SharePoint® 2007 Web Content Management Development: Building Publishing Sites with Office SharePoint Server 2007

19.5. Summary

This chapter has covered a few of the options available to site administrators and developers in getting the best performance out of their Publishing sites. In addition to the topics discussed here, other non-SharePoint-specific Web development techniques and guidelines should be followed when writing custom code for a Publishing site or any SharePoint site.

This chapter focused on improving performance in three ways: limiting the round-trips to the SharePoint content databases, minimizing the memory footprint on the SharePoint WFE servers, and minimizing the payload size of the page delivered to the end user. Other techniques not discussed here include leveraging AJAX callbacks, which avoids retransmitting the entire page across the wire.