Hello,

i saved a copy of the home page of my localhost portal (DNN 4.5.3) and found that there were 249 KB of accompanying AXD, JS and CSS files. As you can see below:

- ScriptResource(1).axd - 29 KB

- ScriptResource.axd - 83 KB

- WebResource.axd - 21 KB

- default.css - 16 KB

- portal.css - 2 KB

- skin.css - 4 KB

- dnn.controls.dnnmenu.js - 25 KB

- dnn.dom.positioning.js - 12 KB

- dnn.js - 29 KB

- dnn.xml.js - 8 KB

- dnn.xmlhttp.js - 7 KB

- dnncore.js - 13 KB

Now, I, with basic basic knowledge of CSS can play with CSS files to minimize their size and remove unnecessary functionality. However i would desparately want to reduce the sizes of other JS and AXD files as well. How to do it?

Raghu.

(I feel most other users must also be wanting to do the same so this should be included in the documentation of DNN.)

Hi Brandon thanks for responding...,

My site is not running under debug mode, here is the corresponding line from my web.config-

<compilation debug="false" strict="false">

I have done a fresh installation from 'Install' version of DNN_4.5.3 zip file as a localhost website. i understand that these files will be cached at user's end, but thinking of dial-up users with typical speeds around 30 Kbps, the home page of my site will take about a minute to open (250+ KB of data)!

Is it just me with these heavy files getting downloaded? i've done a pretty standard install so i think lot of other users too must be facing this.

I am still at square 1 : (

Hi John,

I am getting those files downloaded even as an un-authenticated user. Does being on localhost make any difference?

Do we have somewhere, 'Do-It-Yourself' kind of guide to optimize these files? I ask this because the official optimizations will only happen (if at all) in 4.5.4 or later and it feels physical pain to see my application carry all that extra load around Internet.

Thanks.