Whether you're working with a larger site that you want to speed up dramatically, or you're looking for a way to streamline your current, smaller site just that little bit extra, output caching might just be what you're looking for - and DevShed has a good introduction posted today just for you.

Dynamic Web pages take longer to load than static ones, which forces visitors to your site to wait -- and we all know they won't wait for very long. Output caching is a powerful technique you can use to shorten that wait and keep them from leaving.

[...] Now, nearly every page requested puts into action some kind of intermediate process (or many of them) that introduces a noticeable delay when delivering Web pages to the end user.

With output caching, you can take a site (usually only those updated every so often) and speed up the output time by leaps and bounds, serving up static pages as fast as the users can request them...