How to track IIS server performance

Question

I have a reoccurring issue where a customer calls up and complains that the web site is too slow. Specifically, if they are inactive for a short period of time, then go bac

Answer 1

For your particular case, you need to increase the idle-timeout option in IIS because that delay is due to ASP.NET loading the binaries and starting your application. The default is 20 minutes, so if nobody accesses the site for 20 minutes, IIS will shut down the process and the next request will take a long time to start up.