Comments by FrancoisViljoen (Top 3 by date)

Obviously I do not have a complete view of your whole application, but what you can possibly look at doing is to compress the response using a gzip stream and sending it over as a byte[]. The downside to this is that the consumer has to know what the byte[] actually contains and also how to unzip the information.

I think if you shut down the system in Task Manager then no more code will execute so you will see the effect that you are seeing. I would recommend storing a global variable with view count and updating the value in the database periodically (when the App Server is quiet). then if the service crashes (or gets killed) then you will at least have some indication of page count (albeit not 100% correct). Without getting too complex, this is probably what I would do.