title: Very Slow Sharepoint (Authentication Problem? - Getting 401 errors on images and styles)
body: <p>I'm currently using Team Foundation Server and WSS 3.0 as the Team Portal. After the installation and configuring, I noticed the application was very slow sometimes, taking minutes to load a page. Then I googled it and found n solutions, none solved my problem.</p>
  
  <p>Using Firebug I noticed I was getting a lot of 401 errors, mostly in _layouts and _themes folders.</p>
  
  <p>Error image: <a href="http://i.stack.imgur.com/SmurI.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://i.stack.imgur.com/SmurI.jpg</a></p>
  
  <p>Authentication method is NTLM</p>
  
  <p>Any clue on what's happening? The page loads, it just takes forever before showing up.</p>
  
  <p><strong>EDIT: Here's fiddler statistics:</strong></p>
  
  <p>Request Count:  161
  Bytes Sent:     144.851 (headers:133249; body:11602)
  Bytes Received: 400.222 (headers:69769; body:330453)</p>
  
  <p><strong>ACTUAL PERFORMANCE</strong></p>
  
  <p>Requests started at:    09:47:55.449
  Responses completed at: 09:50:03.311
  Aggregate Session time: 00:03:11.542
  Sequence (clock) time:  00:02:07.8627850
  TCP/IP Connect time:    239ms</p>
  
  <p><strong>RESPONSE CODES</strong></p>
  
  <p>HTTP/401:   84
  HTTP/200:   74
  HTTP/302:   2
  HTTP/404:   1</p>
  
  <p><strong>RESPONSE BYTES (by Content-Type)</strong></p>
  
  <p>application/x-javascript:   218.048
                 ~headers~:   69.769
                 text/html:   37.837
                 image/gif:   31.467
                  text/css:   27.506
                 image/png:   10.133
                image/jpeg:   3.937
           text/javascript:   1.007
                  text/xml:   518</p>