WebClient is very slow

Question

I have problem with Webclient.

It is very slow. It takes about 3-5 seconds to downloadString from one website. I don\'t have any network problems.

This is my

Answer 1

Maybe it will help somebody. Some web services support compression (gzip or other). So you can add Accept-Encoding header for your requests and then enable automatic decompression for web client instance. Chrome works in that way.