Maximum number of web sites and Sub sites in MOSS (SharePoint) site collection

The total number of web sites and sub sites together in one site collection should be 2, 50,000. Web sites which are actually the first sub sites under a site collection, and sub sites are the sites under the web sites.
So if you've got fewer web sites, you can have more sub sites. But for better performance use not more than 2000 sub sites per web site.

MOSS 2007 Performance guidelines for number of sites
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Guidelines for acceptable performance for number of sites
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Caching the first load times in SharePoint (Improving the performance of MOSS site at first load)

Generally the first time page load takes a huge time after doing IISReset. But by doing the below settings, the performance on first load will be faster.
To improve the performance of the SharePoint pages after we do an IISReset.
· Object cache size: 350 (http://servername/_Layouts/objectcachesettings.aspx)
· Site Collection Output Cache: enabled w/ modified Intranet profile:










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