I'm new to NopCommerce and I'm trying to evaluate the platform for potential clients. For the most part, it looks very clean but there seems to be some performance issues. When viewed the site with the assistance of FireBug/Net feature, I notice that resources (e.g. css, js, images) come through the browsers in wave ... with near perfect 1 second delay between each wave. For example, if the page has a total of 10 resources, 5 would come in exactly after one second, then nothing happens for the entire second, then another 5 comes at exactly after 2 seconds.
It suggests there is some sort of throttling logic within NopCommerce. Has anyone else experience this?
It turned out that the throttling comes from Google DNS translating "localhost". Once I added "127.0.0.1 localhost" to the hosts file, the 1-second delay went away.