YSlow and ASP.Net Sites

[ediguy]

Hi all,

I am putting together a site that so far has a score of 87 in Yslow. There's no way I am going to use a CDN so that stays as an F, and likewise it is pointless for this site to use gzip. I'm hosting on IIS 5 for testing and 6 for production.

Three areas, though, I am hoping to figure out how to improve.

1) Add expires headers.
This worked on everything except favicon.ico. Any way to get that to keep the content expiration property value?

2) Configure Entity tags
I can't get this to go away. I thought adding this into the system.webServer area of the web.config would work but it's not helping:

    
<httpProtocol>
      <customHeaders>
        <clear/>
        <add name="ETag" value=" "/>
      </customHeaders>
    </httpProtocol>

3) Minify Javascript and CSS
This is the most frustrating. There are no CSS files being displayed in the results. The javascript files are the WebResource.axd?... files generated by the code itself dynamically. How do I get THOSE scripts compressed or do I just have to live with my score of 87?

Thanks,
J

[gep13]

Hey,

This seems to be a useful site:

http://www.karpach.com/yslow-and-asp...ts-a-grade.htm

Gary