Performance Issues with initial connection to server

[PublicMike]

I am having performance issues with connecting to our project server. Each
time I open the main page for the first time, there is a large lag while the
page displays. This also happened in our test environment, but I assumed it
was because we were running the application and database on the same server,
but since reinstalling and distributing across separate server the lag still
exists.

The servers exceed the published specs for the PS. Any ideas what could be
causing the slow initial connection?

Thanks,

Mike

 

[Chris Slowinski]

In our case, this was due to the IIS cache getting emptied each night (a
"SharePoint-ism"). We implemented IIS pre-caching (IIS goes through the site
early in the morning and preloads the pages into its cache) which will speed
up first-time access of the day.

Sounds like this might be what you're experiencing.