ASP.NET web applications offer a number of useful features to the enterprises that want to develop dynamic, customized applications to support their business needs. But, what if the application does not perform up to the mark? Can just ASP.NET web application development take your business to next level?

Answer is NO. Your business doesn’t just need a web application, it requires an application that gives 100% performance.
Performance is a key factor for any business application because, after all, it is this feature of the application that defines its usefulness to the company and how well it could appeal to the customers. Hence, optimizing web application for peak performance is very much necessary for any business that wants to excel.

So, what are the possible ways one can adopt to improve an application’s performance?

There are different ways to optimize a web application’s performance – one is server side optimization, other is client side optimization and last but not the least is caching. In ASP.NET 4.5 framework or MVC 4, bundling and minification features are defined to improve the web application performance. Here bundling and minification work on client side resources to reduce the load on the server.

Bundling and minification are the techniques which when combined together can drastically improve the page loading time for an ASP.NET application thereby contributing to its improved performance. These techniques work to reduce the number of requests made to server and minimize the size of requested CSS and JavaScript library.

What is Bundling and How is it Useful?

Bundling, as the name suggests, is the process that bundles up multiple files into a single file and thus reduces the number of requests made to the server required to display or retrieve the file, web page or the required web asset. It means that if there are fewer files, fewer will be the number of HTTP requests you have to make from your browser to the server in order to get your work done. Now, the user will be able to load a logical group of files with a single HTTP request.Hence, this will surely improve the load performance of your web application.

Provided in System.Web.Optimization library, bundling is accomplished using the gulp-concat plugin which is installed with the Node Package Manager(npm).

What is Minification and How is it Useful?

Minification technique provides a simplified way of removing unnecessary characters like space, tab, newline and comments from the JavaScript and CSS files to reduce their size and thus boosts up the load performance of the ASP.NET application. Minification of the files can be done using tools like JSMin and YUICompressor.

Whether it is bundling or minification technique, each one will work to make web pages load really faster.

How can you implement Bundling and Minification on ASP.NET Web Applications?

• Add Microsoft’s ASP.NET Web Optimization Framework to create minified version of the specified bundles of files.
• Define the bundling of files by creating a XML file.
• Add the bundling code in global.asax page.
• Adding bundle reference to a page.

So, this is how bundling and minification works to improve the ASP.NET web application performance. Of you are looking for experts to develop ASP.NET application that really works fast or whether your to improve the performance of your existing ASP.NET application, then look out for our experts to help. Contact us for free quote.