Evaluation and improvement of active server pages performance

The main objective of this thesis is to explore techniques of improving the ASP performance and to give an evaluation for the different solutions based on comparison of performance testing results. The research aims at the optimization of the data communication in web applications that may help in the decision of choosing ASP techniques in the future development of web applications.

Performance improvement can be achieved by using the optimized data connection for the defined environment. The whole performance of the application will be enhanced therefore since the processing of client-server communication is a timeconsuming work while the programming strategies are not considered. ASP performance can also be increased by using connection pooling, choosing optimized cursors and applying stored procedure.

The research concentrates on experimentation and comparison of several techniques for ASP performance improvement, which involved data-connection, connection pooling and server cursors. A methodology is given for the performance measurement of ASP techniques. Testing techniques for ASP performance are presented. A set of ASP applications is developed for the experimentation following the methodology and using the given testing techniques. Multiple testing cases are executed for each experiment scenario of a technique. Based on the extent of the performance improvement, evaluations are presented for defined situations. The research gives a quantitative description for performance improvement of ASP techniques in web applications using discussed techniques. Future expectation for ASP performance improvement will be stated finally.