Azure Website slow to serve static JS/CSS but not binary

Question

I have an Azure Website/Web App that is incredibly slow to serve static JS and CSS files but seems perfectly fine serving binary.

To test the problem I uploaded two

Answer 1

We had this issue, and was able to resolve this with the help of Azure Support Team. The issue was that the slow files would use TransferEncoding: Chuncked. They suggested that we force static compression to get around this issue.

We had to add the following to :