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 Unfortunately, this service is rather out of date, and besides it makes statements based on synthetic tests, often avoiding errors in assessing the possible speedup.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.

v1.4.1 released

With new version of world-wide known PHP best website accelerator - WEBO Site SpeedUp - we have added a lot of features about correct caching and CMS support.

• This first is an option 'Separate HTTPS cache'. Now you can have 2 HTML caches - for ordinary and secured connections. This is very helpful for large e-stores with a lot of different pages and different connection options (also for CDN usage).
• Added option 'use zlib' for gzipping. This can help in case of mod_deflate absence and buggy PHP buffers support on server-side (i.e. complicated WEBO Site SpeedUp calls).
• Added option to enable performance A/B testing. Now you can simply test WEBO Site SpeedUp efficiency with A/B testing feature (available with Extended Edition). All data is sent to Google Analytics.
• Added support for multiple hosts'/folders' configs. It is another breaking through feature which enables different configuration files for different website hosts and even folders.
• Improved caching.
• Added # to exclude home page from caching/parsing.
• Added Danish localization.
• Update JS minify libraries (YUI Compressor and Google Compiler).
• Joomla! 1.6x added to supported systems.
• Contao added to supported systems.
• Minor fixes.

You can simply update to the latest version or download your package here.

Web Performance Audit

With our new solution for large enterprise companies - WEBO Enterprise SpeedoMeter - we allow corporate customers to gather all available info about client-side performance and overall availability about their websites. This solution had been released last year for internal usage to provide services about client side performance for our clients, now it is available public.

WEBO Enterprise Speedometer consists of 4 major parts. First of all it's page load time counter which is a chunk of client-side code and it gathers statistics about every visitor of the current website. This data is processed to get complete picture about current client-side performance of the given website (based on every visitor perception).

The next part, general website availability, is based on our WEBO Pulsar service, which can test your website uptime and functionality with a lot of options and parameters. With this service we can measure and store all the data about issues with server-side performance and stability. This includes information about any network connection troubles, any HTTP errors, and also about periods with large server response time (which is measured very precisely without network delays).

The next part is a competitive performance analysis. We measure website load time for the given website and its competitors and output comparison charts about actual website place on the market. This is very important is you are going not only be better, but the best player on the market. Because you must now everything about competitors to overcome them!

And the last part is our internal web performance expertise, which is focused on actual website client-side issues and provides advices to resolve them and performance estimations when about these advices follow-up. It seems it is the most useful part of WEBO Enterprise SpeedoMeter for technical specialists.

You can read more info on the WEBO Enteprise SpeedoMeter site or request example report for your company by request to sales@webo.name

Changes in WEBO Site SpeedUp licensing policy

With new WEBO Site SpeedUp v1.4.0 release we made several changes in overal licensing policy. All of them are related to current features distribution between Edition, nothing more. Now there are three Editions - Free, Standard, and Extended.

Free Edition

WEBO Site SpeedUp Free Edition now doesn't have watermark (watermark made optional) and can be used more widely. Also its functionality is enough to slightly speed any website up, of course this functionality is larger than any others free software for website acceleration. This Edition can be used to get familiar with WEBO Site SpeedUp, ot to make a website a bit faster. There is no Server-side caching or CSS Sprites functions inside.

Standard Edition

In many cases WEBO Site SpeedUp Free Edition is not enough, and you can purchase Standard Edition. This Edition doesn't include product installation and tuning (from WEBO Software engineers) but has 2 weeks of technical support for emergency cases (i.e. website is not available).

Speedup services

All WEBO Software (and its official partners) website speedup services (including Fast Website and Turn-key website speedup) are performed on the base of WEBO Site SpeedUp Extended Edition which is not available for a separate purchase (only through official partners or company services). Extended Edition has the following additional features (in comparison with Standard Edition):

• All caching methods' support.
  • Extreme caching for HTML.
  • Many options to exclude dynamic pages from caching: via User Agent, Cookie, GET params.
  • Flush-of-content options.
  • Wide range of caching engines: Memcached, APC, XCache, files.
  • Separate or common cache for browsers.
  • Client-side caching for HTML files.
  • SQL queries caching.
• More options for CDN
  • Resources' distribution for SSL pages.
  • CSS and JS files naming.
• Delayed loading options
  • Load order changing for ads, counters, widgets, frames.
  • Separated load for resources in CSS files or background images
• Load counter via Google Analytics.
• Better support for gzip on different environments.
• More libraries for minify: YUI Compressor, Dean Edwards Packer, Google Closure Compiler.
• JavaScript code chunks merging order setting (by mask).
• More options for CSS Sprites.

v1.4.0 released

After a long winter holidays we are releasing new, amazing version of the best website acceleration software. Main changes:

• Renamed editions: Communitty -> Free, Lite -> Standard, Premium -> Extended. All product features were reordered within Editions to make Free product Edition stable in all cases and Standard Edition useful in most of cases. Extended Edition is aimed to be used in partner / handy optimization only, and it includes all current product features.
• Added Google Compiler (optional). Through java envelope Google Compiler has been added. Also product packages were reduced as all .jar files are downloaded only on Extended Edition activation.
• Improved gzip. A couple of useful fixes to prevent gzip incompatibilities with rare environments were made.
• Added unobtrusive loading for background images. This greatly affects SEO features and allows you to reduce head section of the document at maximum.
• Added mask to include/exclude scripts. Another useful feature to manage scripts' merging order. Now it's mostly in beta (completely working, but logic must be reviewed).
• Improved caching. For the most of supported platforms cache auto clean-up and workflow have been improved.
• Improved JavaScript merging. Added support for some dynamic JS libraries to be merged into a single file correctly.
• Koobi CMS added to supported systems.
• Minor fixes.

Don't wait, update your WEBO Site SpeedUp right now to get even more website speedup.