Is ASP fast??

[But_Why]

No i'm not wanting to start a flame war and i have posted this in the ASP part of this place, but the general forum is much better for getting a respone. More people look in it and reply quicker.
i am just curious as to what affects the speed of an ASP page. Ie connection obviously and speed of server i guess. i am looking at making an asp page, and i have only really used two sites that use asp, and both of them were slow.
And opinions would be appreciated.
BW
PS are there any limitations with it? i.e. older browsers, only works in ie, not netscape? things like that.
Cheers

[HarryW]

Connection will only affect the time it takes once the ASP page has finished being converted to HTML by the ASP interpreter on the server. If you find ASP pages in particular are slow then the culprit will almost certainly be the server running slowly. You can help this by optimising your code - eg. using large databases can take a long time, so index the relevant fields if you can.