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Aptimize Website Accelerator

Windows This is a Community Contributed Download

CategoryImprove Performance
LicenseCommercial
Supported byEmail, Phone, Knowledge base
Works WithIIS 6, IIS 7, IIS 7.5
DocumentationAptimize Website Accelerator Documentation
Updated onApril 16, 2010
Uploaded byaptimize

Overview

The world’s biggest companies trust Aptimize to accelerate their websites and intranets. Aptimize Website Accelerator is an ISAPI filter for Microsoft IIS that automates performance tuning by dynamically optimizing web pages for high performance at runtime – just before a page is sent from web server to browser. Aptimize helps you reduce page load times by up to 75%.

Features

Aptimize makes SPEED automatic by applying the following features; JAVASCRIPT • Merge JavaScript files into fewer files • File shrinking (whitespace, comment removal) • Gzip compression • Far-future-expires headers for faster repeat views • Automatic refresh of Far-future-expires cache with auto URL versioning • Strip missing Script references from HTML • Asynchronous Script loading (Dynoding) • Script placement optimization in HTML • Duplicate script removal • Cache external scripts locally STYLESHEETS • Merge StyleSheet files into fewer files • File shrinking (whitespace, comment removal) • Gzip compression • Far-future-expires headers for faster repeat views • Automatic refresh of Far-future-expires cache with auto URL versioning • Optimize StyleSheet placement in HTML • Strip missing StyleSheet references from HTML IMAGES • Merge HTML images into CSS Sprites • Background image CSS inlining • Image resampling and JPEG metadata removal • Far-future-expires headers for faster repeat views • Automatic refresh of far-future-expires cache with auto URL versioning • FavIco generation if file missing • Strip missing image references from HTML OTHER • Wizard for configuration • Browser aware optimizations • Load balanced server support • SSL Enabled • “Do no harm” CPU throttle • Granular control of caching rules • Client script API

Benefits

• Reduces page load times by up to 75% • Increases server throughput by 40% • Increases YSlow performance grade • Automatic tuning with optional ‘expert’ mode • Reduces data traffic by up to 40%

Requirements

Supported websites: Microsoft SharePoint 2003/2007/2010. Microsoft ASP.NET 2.0+, ASP Classic, DotNetNuke, or any Microsoft IIS based intranet or website. IIS versions: 6, 7 and above Operating System: Microsoft Windows 2003 Server, Microsoft Windows 2008 Server, Microsoft Windows Vista or Microsoft Windows 7. Hardware specifications: x86 or x64 processor 1GHz or better, 256MB free memory, 100MB free disk space. Server environment: Supports both single server and load balanced server environments. SSL support: Supports SSL and non-SSL web pages.