ASP.NET MVC is a Microsoft Technology solution used for web development that provides a Model View Controller architecture. ASP.net MVC is seen as an alternative to ASP.net web forms for building web applications. Here are five different ways to step up the speed of your ASP.net MVC application to deliver high-end ASP.NET development solutions for complex business structures.

1. Application Caching

Caching is one of the last resort programming techniques that speed up your application if used properly. One of the best places use application caching is when you make a database call to retrieve records. For example, somebody requests a blog on your website and you place it in the cache. When another person requests the same post the application finds it from the cache and returns it without hitting the database. This saves the pricey access of a call to the database.

2. Image Optimization

Images are content assets especially for search engine optimization efforts but you need to reduce its size to make the webpages load faster. The Image Optimizer Add-on in Visual Studio is a good one. Choose the image you wish to optimize, pick Lossless or Lossy image optimization, and the images will be optimized with a portion of the savings for each image. Moreover, once you have mastered the front-end client-side tools like Grunt or Gulp, you can automatically have your images optimized when you build or deploy.

3. Apply Sprites

Images in a website are a necessity. But what happens if your website is littered with small images. If you have 20 small images, that makes to upto 20 requests to retrieve each image. In such cases, sprites can be best used.

Sprites are smaller images inside a larger image. When a browser requests one large image file and you employ CSS to fetch the images and display them on the webpage. 

4. ETags

ETags are used for web cache validation which permits conditional client request. It is a way for the browser to recognize when an asset would be required and will not place a request to the server to pull any of it and thus minimizing requests.

5. Bundle/ Minify JavaScript/CSS

Bundling and minification have been there for some time now. Bundling is the process of wrapping all your JavaScript and CSS and packaging it up into one JavaScript or CSS file. It is closely like the sprite technique, but only with JavaScript and CSS files.

Minification is the process of deleting spaces from a JavaScript or CSS file. Bundling/minification for JavaScript and CSS files is defined inside the BundleConfig.cs in the App Start folder of the ASP.NET MVC project.

The above are possible suggestions for ASP.NET MVC development companies to produce highly functional, feature-rich and user-friendly and high-performance applications across devices.