Performance tuning continues to be one of the top requests from customers. When looking at performance from a client side perspective I will often use Fiddler (www.fiddlertool.com) to inspect HTTP traffic as the CRM pages are being loaded. Below is a screenshot that shows what the application looks like and then some of the top features I use.
This tool has many features that give you good insight into what is happening during the page load. The data I use most often is:
Total number of requests and request size to pull up a page.
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