http://blogs.technet.com/waynemo/archive/2008/03/19/moss-design-considerations.aspxMOSS Design Considerations taken from Optimizing Office SharePoint Server for WAN environments & Optimizing custom Web parts for the WAN and my expereinces Recommendation : Minimize the amount of secured items on a page Reason : When a user authenticates,en-USCommunityServer 2.1 SP1 (Build: 61025.2)