WEBO Software supports healthy life style

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Website load speed was remarkably increased, and this makes happy both website visitors and editors.

Web portal about health, «Be healthy» (vllv.ru) was launched in spring, 2010. Right after its launch there was decided to speed the website up to make it ready for high traffic and public visitors. This way not only server resources usage should be optimized, but also visitors loyalty increased. Website audience at most consists of megacity residents, and they are accustomed to high website load speed. Therefore there must be applied exceptional measures to increase website quality.

Web portal uses a lot of external widgets (from social networks and Google), so its load speed depends a little from the current CMS (Joomla!) and VPS hosting. To improve the situation there was necessary to use only client side technologies acceleration, and it was the finest hour for WEBO Site SpeedUp.

Unobtrusive JavaScript (delayed loading) modules usage significantly improved current website load speed value (Google Webmasters data showed 2x speedup). And by the web portal management team, “website load speed was remarkably increased, and this makes happy both website visitors and editors.”

You must follow rough technological criteria and quality standards to make website working at maximum. And website load and interaction speed is crucial at this point of view (especially to fit audience expectations). Fast websites not only consume less server resources (CPU and I/O) per visitor, but also provide more comfortable pages surfing and information mining.

WEBO Site SpeedUp, being a complex solution to speed the website up both on server and client sides, allows you to apply tremendous set of technologies easily for your website and combine them on demand. Superior results of application work are proven by thousands of accelerated websites and a lot of satisfied users.

Healthy speed for website about health, WEBO Software says no smoking

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After acceleration we noticed remarkable drop in server load and user session time enlargement.

Health portal "How to stop smoking" (kurenie-yad.org/) appeared in the year 2007. Portal evangelizes healthy lifestyle and smoking cessation, proving for its readers large number of collateral materials. Portal attracts about 60,000 visitors every month, and its load speed significantly influences website quality and its popularity so far.

There are visitors from all over the world on this website. Moreover «How to stop smoking» uses a lot of social widgets (Google Connect, Facebook Connect, etc) to hold audience. This all sets strict requirements to the overall website performance, especially ti its client side. In this case project's VPS hosting plays well and allows us not to implement additional caching layers to speed the website up.
After the first stage of website acceleration (regarding Google Webmasters data) its load speed increased by 30%. Common actions to accelerate the website helped a little, so there was decided to integrate additional WEBO Site SpeedUp modules with delayed social widgets load (Unobtrusive JavaScript). After their implementation website load speed increased almost 3 times (up to 3.1 seconds against 9.1 seconds initially). Vlad Kulikov, project administrator, said that "after acceleration we noticed remarkable drop in server load and user session time enlargement."
High website load speed is required to form a stable users core. In this case the use of embedded communication tools of known social networks only make the client side speed slower, forcing to implement more aggressive methods to change the website load flow, based on the latest research and development in the area.
Website load speed primarily influences the website quality and its ability to target the owner's business goals. Therefore, in conditions of acute competition and the high quality standards it's necessary to implement the most stable, productive and time-tested solution - such as WEBO Site SpeedUp. Practice shows that the acceleration site is worthwhile for a few days, in rare cases a week, but it brings increased profits to the website owner even after a full ROI.

WEBO Software increases efficiency for the website of charity fund "Happy World"

WEBO Site SpeedUp increased efficiency of Russian charity fund - "Happy World".

WEBO Site SpeedUp is a wholesome product to speed up a website. There can be not enough time to tune hosting environment, sometimes you need any solution out of the box - that's about us. And it's much easier to have only one module to optimize website performance than apply handy changes to CMS or web server.

Children's charity fund "Happy World" (www.hworld.ru) was created in 2005. The foundation raises funds and provides assistance to children with serious illnesses. Only the last year 199 children received the necessary treatment at $2.6 million. Wards fund are children from poor families. They want to get well and together with their peers go to kindergarten, to school. Strong, reliable adult hand help to cope with the seemingly insurmountable problems, - says about fund activity Olga, its coordinator.

Geography of the project is quite broad - it covers the whole Russia territory. For this reason site of a charity fund for the last few years changed 6 hosting providers, which were periodically unable to bear the load. And now the website uses a distributed hosting from Media Temple (virtual hosting on the "clouds") with Joomla! + Apache + MySQL.

Average load on www.hworld.ru is about 20k unique visitors a month. But during the fund-raising campaigns it can increase several times. Once a campaign to raise funds for the treatment of one of our wards began, - says Michael, a fund technical specialist - and there were more than 8 000 unique visitors per day. It was necessary to accelerate the website load time for visitors and fit a dedicated hoster power. Due to the rapid increase in attendance it urgently needed to optimize Joomla! CMS. There was chosen the product for the universal website acceleration to achieve this goal - WEBO Site SpeedUp.

As Michael says, after the installation WEBO Site SpeedUp reduced consumption of GPU (unit of measurement of power consumption which is used in Media Temple). This allowed to fit the provided power and not to overpay for a non-optimized site. There have been indications that the site was being loaded faster. Both the first and returned visits were speeded up with competent caching. Latter is extremely important for the fund - there are a lot of regular visitors, and it is a huge benefit for them - fast website load speed and website stability.

What is the most important thing - in the most tense moments for the host when a child's life hangs in the balance, and is going active raising for medical treatment, we are confident that the site is working as quickly as possible, saving the lives of children - concludes Michael.

Website load speed is connected not only with the robust website performance, but also with the confidence of visitors to the website information. For charity fund the last fact leads the priorities list. And if there is any possibility to increase confidence of visitors to the charity - you need to do it now, do not fish or cut bait. Because the child's life depends on the decision about donation.

WEBO Site SpeedUp v0.9.5

Today we have released the first (official) version of new WEBO Site SpeedUp. Its general state is beta (release candidate), but all unstable issues are related to UI only. Main core stability is improved (since version 0.6.7) and some new features were added.

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Before public 1.0 release we are going to review and improve current user interface (in terms of usability and response times). Also it seems support for punypng optimization will be added to 1.0 (since they have API get up).

Feel free to submit any bugs here, we appreciate your help in improving this awesome software package.

You can also check public demo of WEBO Site SpeedUp.

WEBO Site SpeedUp - configuration sets & debugging

In the coming new version of WEBO Site SpeedUp we prepared a lot of technical innovations and UI enhancements. One of them is sets of configuration - now you can simply choose one of the predefined settings' sets, or create your own based on one of them.

Configuration sets

As you can see from the upper screenshot there can be unlimited sets of configuration with 3 predefined - safe (which is completely safe for all environments, but doesn't provide a lot of acceleration), optimal (balanced one), and extreme (which should be re-configurated before it can be used for a live website).

Application debugging

We new concept of debug / live mode for WEBO Site SpeedUp application you can simply tune / debug current configuration set and save it. There a lot of options to configure, so basic process can be a bit hard for newbies.

But we prepared a lot of hints through the user interface - they should help you to speedup your website with WEBO Site SpeedUp.

Configuration export / import

After basic configuration is ready you can prepare one-two more configuration sets (if you have time, or just on a test website). And copy them to the live website. After this you can apply any of available sets 'on fly' painless (also in debug mode to be re-sure that all is OK with your website).

With new dashboard cache refresh and debugging application is much easier. Your just need to press 'Enable' or 'Refresh cache' - all the other actions wll be performed automatically.

Get WEBO Site SpeedUp

All these options are avilable in the latest alpha version - http://code.google.com/p/web-optimizator/downloads/detail?name=webo.site.speedup.v0.9.1b.zip. It already has update-to-beta procedure (you just need to go to "System Status -> Updates" and check 'Show information about beta versions'. After this just press 'Install' (below current beta version change log) - all files will be downloaded from beta repository and applied automatically.

WEBO Site SpeedUp alpha version

Actually in Xmas eve we prepared alpha preview of WEBO Site SpeedUp (formerly Web Optimizer). You can get it from official repository here (link updated to alpha2): http://code.google.com/p/web-optimizator/downloads/detail?name=webo.site.speedup.v0.9.1b.zip. Main feature is new interface and a few more tools + improved overall stability. Some screenshots:

Control Panel

Here are all important blocks which should help you to increase load speed of your website - Settings overview, System status, Cache, Load speed, optimization tools, Updates, News, etc.

Cache

On cache screen you can refresh overall cache and get all information about actual files.

On cache reload you see all performed actions.

System status

Here are listed all warnings / troubles with server environment, also some useful information about application.

Optimization tools

Optimization tools (static gzip and image optimization) allow you to compress your files in interactive mode. Image optimization will be performed via smush.it / punypng.com services (in alpha only former is available).

Get alpha2 version http://code.google.com/p/web-optimizator/downloads/detail?name=webo.site.speedup.v0.9.1b.zip and leave your feedback.

Any issues can be also submitted to issue tracker.