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10 Steps to Optimizing SharePoint 2007/2010 Performance for IT Administrators

Thu, 11 March 2010 19:29:53 GMT

Thanks to all those who attended our webinar today hosted by Joel Oleson.

Joel provided tips and tricks as well as best practices for optimizing your SharePoint servers in 10 easy steps including methods to optimize your storage, discuss compression options, and tune your worker processes.

Webinar resources: Joel's presentation [PDF], questions and answers, recording below >>

How to Supercharge SharePoint

Sun, 07 March 2010 16:42:36 GMT

Ed was recently interviewed by Hilton Giesenow on The Moss Show about how to supercharge a SharePoint intranet, extranet or public internet website.

Hilton and Ed talk through the fundamentals of website speed optimization for SharePoint and suggest key tips, techniques, and tools you can use to analyse and improve the performance of your website.

If you like to learn more about increasing SharePoint performance the interview is available to listen to online or to download.

Interview by Hilton Giesenow on The Moss Show

WAX for Linux New Release

Mon, 01 March 2010 15:18:11 GMT

The latest release of the Aptimize Website Accelerator (WAX) for Linux v2.0.30301.1611 is available to download.

If you already have an account, login and get the latest version from your 'Downloads' page.

Want to try WAX for Linux for the first time?

Check out the requirements then create an account to access the download.

Here's whats new:

A new, faster, image manipulation library
Significantly faster HTML parser
Several compatibility fixes
More efficient memory usage
Automatic restart via watchdog timer
HTTPS & IPv6 support added
Better support for resources on a CDN

Thanks to Aaron Sinclair, Aptimize Software Development Engineer (Linux), for this update.

How To Improve Your YSlow Score

Tue, 23 February 2010 14:54:08 GMT

Aptimize WAX immediately improves your YSlow compliance by automatically optimizing pages with performance best practices.

Typically, WAX will increase the YSlow score by 20+ and at least two grades.

WAX helps compliance with the following YSlow guidelines:

Guideline	How WAX helps
Minimize HTTP Requests	Merges JS, CSS files into fewer files. Merges images into sprites
Add an Expires or a Cache-Control Header	Automatically adds far-future-expires headers to resources and uses auto URL versioning to ensure cached resources are kept up-to-date
Gzip Components	Components are Gzipped and cached on the server to reduce CPU load
Put Stylesheets at the Top	Stlyesheets are moved to the top of the page
Put Scripts at the Bottom	Scripts can be moved to the bottom (or anywhere) on the page
Reduce DNS Lookups	External resources can be cached and served from the local server
Minify JavaScript and CSS	JS and CSS are minified
Remove Duplicate Scripts	Duplicate JS files, stylesheets and images are removed
Configure ETags	ETags are stripped from the resources
Optimize Images	Images can be resampled, and GIFs converted to PNGs
Optimize CSS Sprites	CSS Sprites are created and organized horizontally
Make favicon.ico Small and Cacheable	Favicon is configured for caching, and inserted if it is missing, removing a 404 condition.

The current YSlow guidelines can be found here: http://developer.yahoo.com/performance/rules.html

10 Steps to Optimizing SharePoint 2007/2010 Performance for IT Administrators

Sun, 14 February 2010 18:11:22 GMT

Default SharePoint configuration is not tuned for your deployment. Did you know by simply planning for it you can easily double the performance of your deployment? This webinar, hosted by Joel Oleson, will focus on tips and tricks as well as best practices around optimizing your SharePoint servers.

Joel will provide 10 easy steps and methods to optimize your storage, discuss compression options, and tune your worker processes. Don’t forget considering performance from client to server optimization. This presentation will include and address SharePoint 2010 Enhancements and techniques. Attendees will walk away with a step by step methodology and tools to get started today!

>> Register for webinar

In this session Joel will walk through:

Storage optimization
Page optimization
Webpart optimization
List optimization
End to end browser optimization
Performance Tools to make your job easier
Caching and more!

>> Register for webinar

Speaker Bio:

Joel Oleson is a senior product manager and SharePoint evangelist at Quest, where he is responsible for product direction and strategy. He is well known in the SharePoint community as an enthusiastic trainer, evangelist and architect, and he maintains a popular blog www.sharepointjoel.com - Joel is a frequent speaker at popular technical conferences, such as Microsoft TechEd, and often presents to local SharePoint user groups. Prior to Quest, Joel worked at Microsoft and was involved in the first Microsoft global deployment of SharePoint. During his Microsoft tenure, Joel helped various customers achieve the critical governance they needed to upgrade and achieve scale with SharePoint 2007. He later designed the extranet and hosted SharePoint deployments.

Before Joel joined Microsoft, he worked for a large telecom organization where he architected multi-tiered web applications and multi-staged extranet deployments.

>> Register for webinar

SharePoint 2010 On Full Throttle!

Thu, 11 February 2010 15:43:27 GMT

www.wssdemo.com is a popular SharePoint 2010 community site. It is hosted in New Zealand, and the distance impacts load times from around the world.

WSSDemo installed WAX yesterday, and the results are very impressive. This is our first deployment to a SharePoint 2010 website, so we’re very happy with the acceleration.

Improvements From the East Coast USA:

First view load time reduced 37% from 21.8 seconds to 13.8 seconds
Repeat view load time reduced 54% from 9.0 seconds to 4.1 seconds

SharePoint 2010 has some performance improvements over SharePoint 2007, and we’ve enhanced WAX to take advantage of these, and the acceleration results are great!

Here are the raw page test results:

Original: http://www.webpagetest.org/result/100208_4ZZR/

Aptimized: http://www.webpagetest.org/result/100211_52HK/

Google Experiments With Fast Web

Wed, 10 February 2010 14:28:10 GMT

In it's latest move to make the Internet experience faster Google have announced plans to build and test ultra high-speed broadband networks in a small number of trial locations across the United States.

The experiment 'Think Big With A Gig' aims to deliver Internet speeds more than 100 times faster than what most Americans have access to today with 1 gigabit per second, fiber-to-the-home connections; offering the service to at least 50,000 and potentially up to 500,000 people.

The project also intends to provide a platform for outside developers to create and try out cutting-edge applications that will require far more bandwidth than today's networks offer.

Google has invited communities, cities, and individuals interested in joining the experiment to apply by March 26 with a view to eventually building the network in a number of US locations.

WAX 2.1 Now Available to Download

Tue, 02 February 2010 22:39:49 GMT

The latest version of our Website Accelerator - WAX (2.1) is now available. If you already have an account you can get the latest version from your 'Downloads' page. If you want to try WAX for the first time just create an account for access to the download.

How to upgrade instructions are available and please contact us if you have any questions.

Here's whats new:

Log viewer for all WAX specific log files
Improved logging of performance information
Transformations engine to allow content to be modified as it passes through the optimizer
Cache viewer in configuration tool to help analyze cache usage
Script configuration tasks from command line (install, upgrade, uninstall)
Acceleration support for known search engine crawlers

Getting a faster website just got easier.

Got a question? Contact us.

Website Speed Key To Evolving Mobile Market

Thu, 21 January 2010 20:58:16 GMT

Interview with Michael Martin of ResourceNation - Android’s impact on the mobile market makes website speed even more important as the amount of people that will make purchasing decisions and do business using them is about to accelerate in 2010.

“… a micro millisecond difference, but that’s gonna be part of the factors of 2010.”

New Ways To Get In Touch

Sun, 17 January 2010 17:44:30 GMT

We revamped our website last week and added a few new ways to get in touch.

Live chat

Live Chat opens a browser window and you can chat with our team. We think it’s important you’re talking to our company – not an anonymous call center, so when you start a chat you’ll be talking to a developer, business manager or even the CEO. Ask anything you want.

Phone support

Use the USA toll-free number to speak to a USA business manager, or dial the international number to talk to our HQ in New Zealand.

24-7 phone support

We are also now offering a 24-7 technical support service with 60 minute response time, chat or phone us for pricing details of this service.

As always, you can email us.

Blog

10 Steps to Optimizing SharePoint 2007/2010 Performance for IT Administrators

How to Supercharge SharePoint

Interview by Hilton Giesenow on The Moss Show

WAX for Linux New Release

Here's whats new:

How To Improve Your YSlow Score

Guideline

How WAX helps

10 Steps to Optimizing SharePoint 2007/2010 Performance for IT Administrators

Speaker Bio:

SharePoint 2010 On Full Throttle!

Improvements From the East Coast USA:

Here are the raw page test results:

Google Experiments With Fast Web

WAX 2.1 Now Available to Download

Here's whats new:

Website Speed Key To Evolving Mobile Market

New Ways To Get In Touch

Live chat

Phone support

24-7 phone support