One of the main culprits when it comes to ASP.NET concurrency is caused by the fact that default sesion state has been implemented using a pessimistic locking pattern. Basically, any standard handler, whether that be an ASPX page, a generic handler or an ASMX web service, goes through the following steps:

One of the best way to improve performance of any website is to reduce the load from clients by allowing them to cache resources. There are various ways to ensure we utilize client side caching to the fullest extent, an often overlooked parameter however, is the actual URL for the resource we want to cache.