ASP.NET MVC - compression + caching

Question

I've seen a number of options for adding GZIP/DEFLATE compression to ASP.Net MVC output, but they all seem to apply the compression on-the-fly.. thus do not take advange of caching the compressed content.

Any solutions for enabling caching of the compressed page output? Preferably in the code, so that the MVC code can check if the page has changed, and ship out the precompressed cached content if not.

This question really could apply to regular asp.net as well.

Answer 1

[Compress]
[OutputCache(Duration = 600, VaryByParam = "*", VaryByContentEncoding="gzip;deflate")]
public ActionResult Index()
{
    return View();
}

Answer 2

Use caching options using attributes (for MVC), and do not think about compression since IIS/IISExpress automatically compresses your output if you enable it.

the way it works, mvc does not enable caching of individual fragments or parts of output (partial content caching). if you want this, consider using a service like CloudFlare (is there any other like CF?). it automatically caches your output and caches fragments of your output and provides many other performance and security improvements, all without a change in your code.

If this is not an option for you, then you still may use IISpeed (it is a IIS port of Google's mod_pagespeed). It provides some interesting settings like whitespace removal, inline css and js compression, js file merge and many other.

Both CF and IISpeed does not care how your site is built, they work on http/html level, so they both work on MVC, Classic ASP.NET, php or even raw html files.