Happy Fourth Of July!

For my US readers, that's Independence Day.

For my non-US readers, that's just the fourth day of July.

In both cases, I hope you have a great day.

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Studies have shown that the average internet user will abandon a page that takes more than four seconds to load.

If you are using ASP.NET, and you aren't using asynchronous programming, then you may have a problem.

Success may literally kill your site.

How I Bumbled Into The Problem

I discovered this problem a couple of years ago with a web app I was load testing.

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