If you are using Sharepoint then we would recommend you take a look at Aptimize. Their SharePoint website and intranet customers report huge benefits to productivity with a faster intranet enabling better collaboration and completion of online tasks faster - leading to greater efficiencies and time savings.

Some of the benefits they can provide are: Increase the speed of your Sharepoint site First-view load times reduced Repeat view load times reduced Start render reduced (how long people see a blank page before it draws) YSlow Score increased by 2-3 grades Optimizes without any code changes Improve productivity: Tasks are completed faster Create a great user experience

As used by Microsoft themselves

Microsoft is now using Aptimize's Website Accelerator (WAX) to speed up their flagship SharePoint website: SharePoint.Microsoft.com

Ed from Aptimize visited Seattle recently, met with the SharePoint team and demonstrated how SharePoint.Microsoft.com page load speeds could be improved with Aptimize.  The team immediately saw the benefit this would deliver to their customers. Deploying the solution and seeing benefits is a very fast and simple process.

"The improvement in page loading time is tremendous." Tony Tai, Product Manager, Microsoft Corporation.

After downloading, installing and configuring Website Accelerator for the website, here are the results:

• First-view load times reduced 46-64%
• Repeat view load times reduced up to 50%
• Start render reduced more than 50% (how long people see a blank page before it draws)
• YSlow Score increased from E to B

Here are original/Aptimized load time comparisons, using AOL page test from Dulles, VA:

	Original	Aptimized	Reduction in load time
First View	10.6 seconds	5.7 seconds	46%
Repeat view	7.1 seconds	3.3 seconds	53%