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( xkcd ) I know that compiling nowadays is much faster than it was before. Yet, for me, it seems that compiling and especially running/debugging ASP.NET projects with the Visual Studio Web Development Server is incredibly slow . Since the beginning of last summer, I've been working heavily on ASP.NET MVC projects. Of course, the best way to debug them is by using the web server that comes with Visual Studio. When doing that, I get horrendously slow loading times. Chrome dev tools typically report that loading one of my pages had a 3 minute wait time , followed by a short loading time. I've seen these two questions, but they don't help. While I do most of my debugging work in Chrome, the same happens in IE. Has anyone else had this problem before? If so, any tips? Also, I doubt that the problem lies with the speed of my machine. This computer is really fast running Windows 7 and Visual Studio 2010, so I don't see why ASP.NET debugging should be so slow. UPDATE: In his answer below, Jon Skeet suggested attempting to identify whether the problem is being caused by the environment or by the code itself. I created a brand new MVC project and ran it. The first test appeared to be much faster. However, after testing it a few more times, it's safe to say that the first test was an anomaly - usually, it takes as long as my big project (2 - 3 minutes). Thus, this is a problem with the environment . Thanks in advance for any help!

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