Very, very simple asp.net page takes forever to load

Time to turn on Failed IIS Request Tracing!

I realise that the request is actually not failing, but you should be able to set Status 200 on the trace to track successful requests as well. There is a tutorial on iis.net that tells you to use failed request tracing for tracing successful requests, so I assume it should work.

Just a quick note what happend in my case:

Neither Process Monitor nor Failed Request Tracing was of any help. The website simply loaded (nearly) forever.

Finally, after waiting for several minutes an error occurred stating that it "cannot locate the network path".

The reason was that I entered a connection string to a non-existing SQL Server instance, so it somehow keept searching for the server. Finally, a timeout occured.

The solution was to simply specify the correct SQL Server in the connection string inside Web.Config.