WEBO Site SpeedUp Blog

v1.6.0 released

noreply@blogger.com (Nikolay Matsievsky) — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 09:24:00 +0000

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

noreply@blogger.com (Nikolay Matsievsky) — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 14:56:00 +0000

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

noreply@blogger.com (Nikolay Matsievsky) — Sat, 03 Mar 2012 22:10:00 +0000

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

noreply@blogger.com (Nikolay Matsievsky) — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 13:12:00 +0000

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

noreply@blogger.com (Nikolay Matsievsky) — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 09:04:00 +0000

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

noreply@blogger.com (Nikolay Matsievsky) — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 08:04:00 +0000

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

noreply@blogger.com (Nikolay Matsievsky) — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 06:31:00 +0000

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

noreply@blogger.com (Nikolay Matsievsky) — Sat, 30 Apr 2011 12:45:00 +0000

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

noreply@blogger.com (Nikolay Matsievsky) — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 11:30:00 +0000

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

noreply@blogger.com (Nikolay Matsievsky) — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 14:55:00 +0000

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

noreply@blogger.com (Nikolay Matsievsky) — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 15:24:00 +0000

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.

Xmas 2010 discounts

noreply@blogger.com (Nikolay Matsievsky) — Sat, 25 Dec 2010 21:59:00 +0000

For approximately 2 weeks we have 20% discount for all WEBO Site SpeedUp products (licenses). You can get them here:
WEBO Site SpeedUp Premium Edition (save $70).
WEBO Site SpeedUp Lite Edition (save $18).

UPD: action is closed

v1.3.2 released

noreply@blogger.com (Nikolay Matsievsky) — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 10:51:00 +0000

It's the last public update for the leading web performance product - WEBO Site SpeedUp - this year. It includes a lot of new features and minor fixes.

Improved gzip. There were tested few new gzip-related patterns and WEBO Site SpeedUp support for missed headers, or firewalls, or improper server side configuration, or anything else was improved.
Added charset option. Now with charset option (it is available in System Status - Parameters) Extreme caching mode ic completely safe, and no charset will be broken. Charset is detected automatically on the first install, and can be manually changed.
Added option to choose between files exclusion or inclusion into CSS Sprites. Very useful option if you have only a few images that must be combined to HTML Sprites, then you can easily add them all instead of adding new and new exclusions.
Added option for load time counter (via GA). With this amazing option you can simply count through Google Analytics how many page views you lost with slow website. To perform this you need only to enable WEBO Site SpeedUp with only this counter for a week, and then perform acceleration (with counter enabled). Difference will be clear. All page load time values are being collected into Events (WEBO Site SpeedUp section), and of course you need Google Analytics counter installed on your website.
Improved SEO compatibility. Now all combined .php and cached fiels are closed via nofollow and robots.txt from search engines indexation.
Improved HTML Sprites.
Improved HTML caching.
Drupal 7.x added to supported systems.
Minor fixes

You can update to the last version from the WEBO Site SpeedUp itself or download it from WEBO Software website.

Special Xmas offer from LoadImpact

noreply@blogger.com (Nikolay Matsievsky) — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 08:19:00 +0000

Load Impact makes stress test even easier with 50% Xmas discount. You can get it here:

loadimpact.com/specialoffer.php

Or just use the following campaign code: XMAS

Website stress testing

noreply@blogger.com (Nikolay Matsievsky) — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 12:47:00 +0000

It is important before Xmas season to know more about your website reliability. And of course the exact number of your customers what can you website serve.

Long time there were no tools to perform such an evaluation (except the direct traffic punch) but now you can analyze your website metrics and perform all necessary actions before it go down due to large amount of your clients. One of the best of such tools is Load Impact. Let's look inside this tool and see how simple can be your website bottlenecks analysis.

Configuring a test

Of course most of features are available even with free website test. But to get the maximum details and perfect result you should register and use any of paid plans (they start from $9 per day or $39 per month, it's really cheap). So the first thing is to setup the test. You can use the only website home page URL to get almost all data about its reliability. But can get a bit more.

With Proxy recorder (under Advanced mode -> Load script generation -> Record session) you can setup a set of requests for your website (with various delays); this will completely emulate your visitors' behavior and can tell you how many simultaneous visits your website can serve.

Proxy recorder can be configured in a few steps (you just need to enable a proxy on a given port inside your browser, Firefox in this case), then start recording and go through the target website (to collect all requests, even dynamic and AJAX ones). Then just stop recording and get all these requests in textarea.

Please be sure that proxy is configured correctly and test proxy settings before starting the test.

Before you finish with test setup you should choose amount of visitors to emulate. For a small website 50 visitors will be quite enough.

If you just want to test website reliability for 500-1000 visitors, you can setup step as 100 (not to overload the system and overhead traffic limit).

In the case if you need exact picture of server down due to high load you need to choose 10-20 visitors in step and get complete picture. But this can take several hours to be completed.

Before you can save the test you need to verify it. Usually it is just a formal procedure to be sure that test is correct.

Running a test

After you have created the proper configuration you can run it. Please be aware of long duration of test performance - it can take up to several hours. After test is completed you will get a lot of different charts about pages and resources performance. Let's consider them more.

The main graphics are user load time and accumulated user time. The first will tell you the delay for users before they get HTML page under current amount of simultaneous users online. The second will tell you how website is working under load, how long its pages are being loaded (totally, server and client side), and where is the limit of its reliability (where time becomes more than 10-15 seconds).

Also you can simply compare how different type of resources are being loaded - to find bottlenecks and to fix them properly. For example you can have relatively fast HTML document, but a lot of expenses on dynamic images generation. Or main expenses will be concentrated in HTML latency only. This will appear only after the test is completed.

Resume

Load Impact is a very easy tool to perform such tests, and simple load tests are completely free. So you can quickly check your website reliability and be sure that you are ready for Xmas shopping season :)

Website Availability Issues

noreply@blogger.com (Nikolay Matsievsky) — Thu, 25 Nov 2010 08:20:00 +0000

Availability of the website is a very unpredictable thing. Sometimes from home (or work) your website is accessible, but your friends can't enter it. Also there can be a situation when sometimes your website up and sometimes down (and you can't even prove this). Or website is being loaded very slowly. Solution in each case can be complicated, but let's consider the basic types of such problems:

Unavailability of a large segment of the network. In this case, users from one network segment can't get access to websites in the other segment (eg, due to routing errors). It's easy enough to install special utilities, but you can't usually perform anything in this case. And the problems of this level (global) typically affect hundreds of thousands of sites, and are being solved them quickly.
You can only sit and wait. And hope that your users are in the same boat (in the same segment), which is your website.
Unavailability of a hoster (small segment of the network). In this case, the problems usually lie on the side of the provider (and therefore can be corrected not so fast). Accurately set the frequency and nature of these problems manually is practically impossible, but it is relatively easy with tools for automatic monitoring.
There is necessary in case of any downtime greater than 10-30 minutes to write to support of your ISP: maybe they do not know that something has fallen off?
Great timeout. In this case, in fact, the site works. And open to all users. But not all users can wait for it :)
It is also possible to check (server timeout with WEBO Pulsar, and the total download time with webpagetest.org. If you page generation time on the website is too large, you should apply any of optimization techniques. Otherwise there will be big losses among target users.
HTTP-error on the site. Quite often it happens that due to heavy load (or service provider hardware failures) website starts with an error (500, 502, 503 or similar). Tracking of such things and in-time moving the website to a safer place is also possible, but this of course requires special attention.
WEBO Pulsar would be the best for this purpose (to track when, what time, and with what frequency). With it all unprepossessing "kitchen" ISP come out and you'll know exactly what is happening with your site.
The failure of the site. Sometimes there are minor incidents with the website (due to hardware failure or hosting provider network configuration change), when the availability of the website is not directly affected, but part of the website functionality is broken. For example, database queries are no longer handled. Or debugging messages have been appeared.
Complete knowledge of such situations can only be possible with direct viewing the website (or its basic functionality check). With WEBO Pulsar, you can check how the presence of a specific text on the page, and its absence. This enables the most timely response to the problem.

WEBO CDN on maintenance

noreply@blogger.com (Nikolay Matsievsky) — Thu, 25 Nov 2010 08:14:00 +0000

We are going to upgrade capacities of WEBO CDN to be able to serve more clients in the new year, so from the 1st of December, 2010 WEBO CDN will be on hold due to technical reasons.

We are sorry for any inconvenience.

v1.3.1 released

noreply@blogger.com (Nikolay Matsievsky) — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 11:47:00 +0000

New version of the best website acceleration software - WEBO Site SpeedUp - is here. Main changes:

Added WEBO Nimblizer (image optimization tool). It is based on PHP5 imagepng function with all filters and compression (including GIF2PNG and BMP2PNG functionality) + PCR tool from bolknote. Performance is great (and it works locally instead of smush.it tool), efficiency is also amazing. Now Image optimization becase even simplier.
Cancelled PHP4 back compatibility. There was a blog post about such a decision. Now WEBO Site SpeedUp can be made easy, lighter, and w/o double code. PHP4 users can use 1.3.0- versions - all of them completely support this environment.
Added CSS Minify option. There were a lot of user complaints about broken styles after data:URI application. Now they can be used w/o CSS Tidy library (and it's an value in CSS Minify option).
Separated unobtrusive widgets configuration. One more global change to make product easier to understand and tune. Now you can use Wiki page and config.unobtrusive.php to create your own solution for unblocking JavaScript.
Added option to exclude GET params from URL hash on caching. This is a useful feature for e-commerce websites which widely use different campaign identifiers for the same content pages. Now these identifiers can be excluded from hash, and the same cache entries will be used.
Added unobtrusive support for Affiz ads, Google Translate widget.
Improved server environment detection.
Improved HTML caching (more stability and performance).
Minor fixes.

You can update to WEBO Site SpeedUp v1.3.1 right now - it is ready!

WEBO Pulsar - test your website availability

noreply@blogger.com (Nikolay Matsievsky) — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 10:59:00 +0000

The last month we released new service to check and test your website availability - WEBO Pulsar. With its help you can prove your website uptime and response time (no network delays or transfer time included!).

To start use you just need to pass through quick registration and add your website (or web service). After a little time you will get a chart like the right one.

You can get all data not only with graphic, but also via CSV or HTML import.

You can also select a timeframe on this graphic and get detailed log info about any error (if such an option is enabled).

Features

There are a lot of methods and protocols to test with WEBO Pulsar - you can choose between HTTP and HTTPS, GET, HEAD, and POST. DNS, MySQL, e-mail protocols, and a lot of others are coming.

Also you can send POST data, check tested website or web page for a given phrase or text. And use HTTP basic authorization.

With WEBO Pulsar you can get notification right after your website is not available via e-mail and jabber. Twitter and sms notification have been also scheduled.

Prices and Balance

With WEBO Pulsar you use internal WEBO coins (w) to increase your balance and add websites to testing plan. Average cost of (w) is $0.005, all prices you can get in WEBO Software online store.

On the balance page you will get fees about your availability tests and one-time costs (i.e. detailed log or future sms).

Average month fee per website with 1-minute frequency is $6 only (HEAD method), 10-minute frequency costs 10 times lower.

Test your website availability with WEBO Pulsar!

Finishing with PHP4 compatibility

noreply@blogger.com (Nikolay Matsievsky) — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 15:05:00 +0000

Due to some reasons (inability to support 2 different product / library branches with PHP4 and PHP5, backward compatibility through the whole code base, large size of final package) WEBO Software is going to end with PHP4 support for its products from October 1, 2010.

All old releases will work for PHP4 environments with listed requirements. WEBO Site SpeedUp (starting from v1.3.1), WEBO CDN, WEBO Server SpeedUp, WEBO Site InSight, and all the future products will work only with PHP5.

Please take this into consideration when you are installing or updating current WEBO Software products. We are sorry about websites based on PHP4, you can use all our current builds to conduct website performance optimization, and you will be able to do so with them forever.

v1.3.0 released

noreply@blogger.com (Nikolay Matsievsky) — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 10:42:00 +0000

After long summer vacations we are releasing new stable WEBO Site SpeedUp build - 1.3.0. Some of the new features:

Improved HTML caching (especially for Joomla! 1.5x). A lot of minr fixes and general performance improvements, now caching for Joomla! and WordPress are really the fastest in the world. You have all supported engines and systems here - starting from simple disk caching and extreme mode (w/o any access to CMS core) to Memcached, and APC, and X-Cache. All in one package.
Added unobtrusive support for Unruly Media, GoViral Network, Exoclick, Carpediem, and new OpenX format. 5 more unobtrusive patterns are now supported, which makes your website really faster to your visitors.
Improved files merging. Added scriptaculous auto loader detection to reduce number of JavaScript files. Also a few tine improvements.
Added support for RackSpaceCloud CDN. Now all CSS/JS files can be easily uploaded to RackSpaceCloud automatically on creation. You just need to set [user]:[key]@RSC into FTP credentials option inside CDN settings and enjoy this synchronization feature.
Added 'nosprites' magic word. You can simply skip auto Sprites creation if use nosprites in class, ID, image names inside HTML or CSS code.
Reformed product structure (less files). Package over 2 Mb and over 80 files creates some difficulties to install it (due to default server timeouts / restrictions). We performed some structure changes to reduce overall package size and number of files. The next pack of changes is going to be applied in upcoming builds.
Improved configuration wizard. Wizard has been tested over 4 major browsers and over dozens of websites / configurations. Now it works stable in IE8+ / Firefox 3.5+. In Opera / Webkit-based browsers there are bugs with JavaScript errors detection (general inability to perform this in mentioned browsers), so Wizard works not so good.
Improved chained optimization.
Added rollback to custom version (1.2.0+).
Minor fixes (including a lot of compatibility changes for all supported systems).

You can download the latest version or just update your WEBO Site SpeedUp.

WEBO Software support level changes

noreply@blogger.com (Nikolay Matsievsky) — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 18:03:00 +0000

We are continuing reformation of WEBO Software products / services to make them more market-friendly. We have started with licensing policy this month, but the last days we have changed support level agreement, made it clearer and added some new services.

WEBO products support

All corporate support levels can be found here, but let's describe them a bit deeper.

First of all we separated all support actions to e-mail support (basically it's enough for most of requests - just to be sure about WEBO Site SpeedUp product features), installation and configuration support.
Now all manual actions on customer websites are gathered under 'installation support', which can be very tricky, and its difficulty highly depends on current server side environment (we have dozens of cases when we had to add some fixes to the product / environment detection due to incorrect server side setup).
Also configuration support is moved to a separate instance, and you can request WEBO Site SpeedUp tuning at any moment - there is such an option now.
As far as some of speedup projects require a complete report about website load speed before and after acceleration - now we are offering such a service. You can request this report and accelerate your website with your own technical team - just with WEBO Software expertize and experience.
For corporate support we have added one more option - online support, which means 24/7 availability and personal support manager (with skype account).

Also all support is now available annually or until included support cases have not been completely used. Check all support options. All of these levels cover all WEBO Software products, including WEBO Site SpeedUp, WEBO Server SpeedUp, and WEBO CDN.

WEBO Site SpeedUp installation

Also we have cleared corporate website acceleration packages - now there is Basic, Advanced, and Corporate WEBO Site SpeedUp products, each of them means different level of technical support during / after acceleration process. Check WEBO Site SpeedUp installation services comparison.

Now you can simply choose required website acceleration level of services, or even create your own custom one.

Changes in licensing policy

noreply@blogger.com (Nikolay Matsievsky) — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 11:31:00 +0000

There are several significant changes in licensing policy with our last 1.2.2 release. Let's review them in details.

First of all Lite Edition functionality has been expanded almost to Premium Edition (in basic optimization features). So now you can get notable speedup even with WEBO Site SpeedUp Lite Edition. Complete functions comparison. Community Edition can be used for non-commercial websites only.

WEBO Site SpeedUp Premium Edition still have some vital functions for SMB and enterprise websites. I.e. all optimization tools (Static Gzip, Image Optimization, CDN Synchronization, more coming) are available only in this edition. Also all cutting-egde Unobtrusive JavaScript functions (about social widgets and ads delayed load) are included only into Premium Edition (also with possibility to use HTTPS for CDN and restrict URLs from processing).

Secondly all time-limited functionality has been left to SaaS Edition only. Now all classic WEBO Site SpeedUp editions (Community, Lite, and Premium one) are distributed with lifetime license. All previous 1-year licenses have been automatically upgraded to lifetime ones (but the price of lifetime licenses have become greater, $89.99 for Lite Edition and $349 for Premium Edition). All customers with recently purchased lifetime licenses will get free Premium Support or additional licenses (to cover price difference).

Now all WEBO Site SpeedUp paid Editions (except SaaS one) include support. Lite Edtition includes 2 weeks of WEBO Software Premium Support, Premium Edition - 6 months.

All product updates will remain free. Forever.

We hope all these news are great to fans of high speed for their websites. And we are going to improve WEBO Site SpeedUp quality and interfaces to make '1-click acceleration' not a dream but reality.

v1.2.2 released

noreply@blogger.com (Nikolay Matsievsky) — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 22:09:00 +0000

With new version website acceleration becomes even easier!

Added Configuration Wizard. Configuration Wizard allows you to automatically check all website features and tune all WEBO Site SpeedUp options in completely automated mode. It's available from welcome screen.
Changed licensing policy. Now Community Edition is completely equal to Lite Edition and almost equal to Premium Edition (by main features). Also all current keys have been converted to lifetime, all lifetime keys have received extended Premium Support.
Added SQL caching. There is SQL caching possibility for WordPress and Joomla! extensions - all CPU expensive queries (via another driver) can be cached successfully, what reduce HTML pages generation time. We are adding this feature for all the other native CMS extensions.
X-Cache added to supported systems.
Added native support for NetCat.
Improved HTML caching.
Added Italian localization.
Added support for base tag / header.
Improved PHP proxy library.
Minor fixes.

Download or update to the latest version.

v1.2.1 released

noreply@blogger.com (Nikolay Matsievsky) — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 15:58:00 +0000

The next bunch of new features, improvements, and fixes with 1.2.1 version.

Added option 'Cache engine'. With this option you can choose between files / Memcached / APC and some other caching engines to completely speed HTML files caching.
Memcached and APC added to supported engines. There are not so many caching subsystems available, and we are going to cover them all this summer.
Added CDN sync tool (via FTP). Now you can simply synchronize all static resources via FTP with your CDN server (and check their status).
Added warning about huge resources consumption. A number of new messages (after some user reports) were added - now you can see how efficiently WEBO Site SpeedUp works for your website, and what possible troubles can occur with its performance on optimization.
Improved data:URI behavior.
Improved server side caching.
Improved support for Windows Server / IIS.
Improved files' merging.
Added native support for Magento.
Added Urdu localization.
Minor fixes.

You can update your WEBO Site SpeedUp right now or download the latest package (also for corporate users).