This article describes techniques you can employ to speed up the execution time of your ASP scripts.
Web surfers are impatient people.
This is one reason why ASP scripts should be optimized for speed. Another more important reason, is that when you have multiple people hitting your server, the less time it takes to server one ASP file the better, so you are not overburdening the webserver. ServerVariables collection four or five times on one page. Rather than referring to it as Request. The reason behind this is because it is quicker to access a local variable than to have to perform lookup processing in the collection for each and every reference.