v1.6.0 released

New month - new WEBO Site SpeedUp version. We have released all our thoughts about high website speed, fixed minor issues with functionality and performance - and have prepared the next stable version of the best website acceleration solution.

• Improved Enhanced mode for unobtrusive loading. A lot of widgets can now be safely loaded on window.onload (including almost all of advertising blocks), also a lot of logical and functionality fixes around unobtrusive loading. There are widgets - DirectAdvert, Teaser.cc, InetLog - added to Unobtrusive loading.
• Added option Unobtrusive Configuration. Now you can manage Unobtrusive loading even more easily - you can set sequences of any widgets which need to be loaded first and which can be delayed to window.onload. For example you may show 2-3 banners to your visitors first, and the rest of ads can be moved to onload event. No additional knowledge is required here - just the understanding what do you want from your website - high speed or high revenue, or both :)
• Added tool Minify CSS/JavaScript. After several requests from our clients we added one more optimization tool to minify CSS and JavaScript files automatically. This can be dangerous (due to incorrect scripts notation), so please be careful. Minifying engine is taken from website configuration settings (Minify CSS and Minify JavaScript).
• Added tab with PHP info to System Status. Now you can check the system features and modules existence easily with generic PHP info block.
• Improved performance. Some of the product functions have been simplified / rewritten to reduce time of common operations execution. We are going to minimize impact of the product to the website performance (server-side) with significant improvement in its current performance (both client and server side).
• Improved data:URI. New logic has been applied for Regular Expression procedure, also IE7- hack has been modified not to conflict with Google Chrome features.
• Improved WEBO Rocket. More stability added and some bugs fixed.
• Minor fixes

You can upgrade directly from the product (please be careful if 1.5.1- version is used - you need to upgrade to 1.5.2 first (and then to 1.6.0). You can also download the latest packages from our download page.

v1.5.3 released

We are planning major update to the product and even the phylosophy of website acceleration, and the new product version is just a step on this way. We are glad to announce new key functions:

• New update mechanics. First of all you need to update to 1.5.2 before updating to 1.5.3 or upper. We changed update procedure logic to keep product integrity on update, and it's not compatible with the old versions.
• Added options Rocket CSS, Rocket JavaScript. new options add extreme speed for all CSS and JavaScript files and are available from Zero product edition. They are safe to use, but can shring website load time by 20-40% easily! It acts like a magic - just turn these options on and be glad about faster website w/o any damages to design or functionality.
• Added option 'Put styles first'. One more critical for most websites options: styles are being loaded sometimes after scripts, so it's important to put them before automatically with all inline/external files logic and conditional comments. And this is done by the new version of the product.
• Improved HTML Sprites / scaling. There are a lot of new logic around HTML sprites and scaling to improve overall product reliability and don't crash on huge projects.
• Added currency option. Be default all files in HTML cache are named with current currency (to separate different languages / currency in cache). Now you optimize this option by default currency, this will reduce size of HTML files in cache by 30-50%.
• Minor fixes

You can update directly from the product - but please be carefull with 1.5.2-1.5.3 transition. New versions are also available to download from the WEBO Software website.

v1.5.2 released

We have taken a good speed in 2012 year to bring new approaches and new quality standards to website performance optimization. With a new WEBO Site SpeedUp version we made one more step for 1-click faster website.

• Added Zero Edition. With 1.5.2+ versions there will be no Free (or community) Edition of the product. All editions will be commercial. The first one - Zero Edition - will cost about $25 (lifetime license).
• Added welcome letter. After years of customer feedback we have brought together different parts of optimization process and huge amount of user questions in 1 document. Now it's sent right after the installation - to help our users understand website performance better and be more familiar with the product.
• Improved caching performance and stability. Large number of issues have been closed, and now caching is operating much more stable and less files are being created.
• Added update / install integrity check. We released one more integrity level check - of product update files - but it will be completely aailable since 1.6.0 only.
• Updated Google Closure Compiler (to b1741) / YUI Compressor (to 2.4.7) libs.
• Added UMI.CMS module.
• Shop-Script added to supported systems.
• Minor fixes.

Now you can safely update from your current product or download new package directly from WEBO Site SpeedUp download page.

v1.5.1 released

In the beginning of new 2012 year we are happy to release next version of the best website accelerating software - WEBO Site SpeedUp. New features:

• Added an option to scale HTML images. The most-waiting feature to reduce actual size of website pages with auto-scaling of images which are used with wrong dimensions.
• Added support for web.config (gzip, expires). Work around IIS + php environments gave us ability to add support for such cases. Now web.config if filled automatically with required rules.
• Added option to restrict Sprites dimensions. In some cases this is really required to restrict memory consumption on CSS / HTML Spriters creation.
• Added option to minify inline code within body. Now JS code merging is managed via 6 options - no inline or external code merging, external files merging within head or within body, inline code merging within head or body.
• Community Edition moved to Trial (30 days limit). From v1.5.1 free usage of WEBO Site SpeedUp is limited to 30 days only. If you want to use the product longer - you need to purchase Standard or Extended Edition lifetime license or use version 1.5.0 or below.
• Improved files' merging (NiftyCube).
• Minor fixes

You can update you product or download the newest version from our website.

v1.5.0 released

New powerful version of the best product to accelerate your website - WEBO Site SpeedUp - is here. What's new:

• Added cart caching for e-stores. A lot of new features, including complete support for WordPress digital cart, Joomla! Virtuemart cart, and any custom cart. Now e-stores can work with full page caching (significantly faster!) and all information about customer activity is stored.
• Added option to pre-load resources. Now you can pre-load any CSS/JS files on page to use them lately (trusting browser caching).
• Added option to pre-load URLs. More powerful option to cache all resources on custom web page (to use lately on the whole website or before this page is loaded).
• Added option to include URLs to HTML cache. Now you can not only exclude URLs from HTML caching but also include only given pages to cache.
• Added support for multiple CSS backgrounds.
• Improved data:URI.
• Improved caching.
• Minor fixes.

You can download the latest version here or update you product immediately.

WEBO Scout - new life for webo.name

Recently we have build into WEBO Pulsar a new analytical tool, and in fact a separate product - WEBO Scout. Now you can monitor not only website load time in a browser in real time, but also receive on a regular basis summary of current performance issues and tips on how to improve the situation.

There was a well-known webo.name service which was used directly for this purpose. Unfortunately, this service is rather out of date, and besides it makes statements based on synthetic tests, often avoiding errors in assessing the possible speedup.

To prevent this WEBO Scout was released. It also operates the real parameters of loading of pages in a real browser (now it's only the Internet Explorer 8) and provide information about current issues of the website performance with high accuracy, as well as it counts the possible time of the pages to open in case of the website speedup. To assess the possible acceleration, we apply our module automatically WEBO Site SpeedUp, thus guaranteeing maximum precision of the result.

All you need to get this information - go to Reports in WEBO Pulsar, enter the name of a site or page you want to check and selecting the desired report type, click Create Report. Usually the report will be prepared for a couple of minutes, and it will be available for permanent linking. You can also enable notification by e-mail about reports' creation.

Report Types:

Simple report. A simple website load time test with the calculation of the possible acceleration - quick basic figures for those who want to a few real KPI about their website. Suitable for regular monitoring of the website rate, for example, before and after work to accelerate or change the design of the website. The cost of this report is minimal and is about $0.1.

Basic Report. This report is a bit more complicated, thre is more technical information here: server response time of 4 points without taking into account network delays, the website load waterfall and ranked tips to increase the speed of the site. This report is suitable for more deep study of the website performance issues and it provides a listing of actions to accelerate the website, and all tips are arranged by priority. The cost of the basic report is about $0.6.

There will be added one more type of reports - Advanced one. It will include all the data from the basic report, and it will contain information how to implement the most appropriate advices to accelerate website, as well as lists of files that are affected by these advices. This type of report will be available in September.

Plans for the nearest future

We have a lot of ideas about how to improve WEBO Scout and share with you that a vast experience that we have in the website audit and speedup. We hope that you will wait for WEBO Scout updates with the same passion as we have.

Here we are with WEBO Scout, and we are welcome to any comments on its functionality, or appearance, or usability. Any of your comments are valuable. And of course, we have traditionally encourage all active members of bonus prepaid.

Together, we make websites faster and more reliable!

v1.4.2 released

With new version WEBO Site SpeedUp became even more stable and more efficient:

• Added option 'Delete expired cache files'. With this option HTML files' caching can be made even faster - with less files every moment in caching folder. After HTML content has been pushed to browser expired files are deleted. This can be also helpful in Extreme mode (wtih auto cache clean-up).
• Added DNS prefetching for multiple hosts. Now multiple hosts' distribution is much less painful than before - all new hosts are being requested before any images' are started to download. A bit more speedup for your website.
• Improved files' minify.
• Minor fixes.

We are preparing to a major release with new breaking through features - keep on them. You can update your website accelerator or just download new package.