This is good info and actually the first time that someone EVER (between the lines) told me that you actually have to take a possible network latency in consideration when you see this problem. At the TechED,Barcelona I asked Wade Elmo who is Program manager on IIS7 and he told me that the answer to...

Indeed true about the long running pages. But at one customers site we have a phenomenon that cannot possibly be something serverside. What we see are clients issuing GET's where amongst those some of them are for a .gif. Now that .gif is only 57kb in size and nothing is actually "processed"...

Is is possible that you sometimes can see a reflection of network latency into the time-taken field? At the Tech-ED 2007 I asked one of the IIS guys and he replied it was a long and very technical answer (that I never got) - and that many people had asked about it. Nevertheless I got the impression that...