Tips For Speeding Up Your SharePoint Site

Here are a few things to try if you SharePoint pages are loading slowly.

1) Configure your Site Collection Output Cache.

   a) Click on "Site Actions -> Site Settings".

   b) In the Site Collection Administration section, click on "Site collection output cache".

   c) Click on the "Enable output cache" checkbox.

   d) For "Authentication Cache Profile", choose "Intranet (Collaboration Site)".

   e) For "Output Cache Policy:, check both "Publishing sites" and "Page layouts".

   f) Uncheck the "Enable debug cache" checkbox.

   g) Click "OK".

2) Resize large images to be smaller.

   a) Using a program like "MS Paint", reduce the image size and replace the site image with the smaller one.

   b) Changing the image type to a .GIF or .JPG can also reduce the size since it is more compressed.

3) Resize large documents.

   a) PDFs can be reduced by opening the file in Adobe Acrobat, and clicking on "File -> Save As -> Reduced size PDF".

4) Check if there are any hidden, unused web parts on the page and remove them.

Cheers!
Leo