• What is Aptimize?
• What are the requirements?
• Why is it better than just developing my own solution?
• My website is highly customized. Can I use Aptimize?
• We use a CDN already, can Aptimize help?
• I'm not technical, can I use Aptimize?
• Can I trial first?

What is Aptimize?

Aptimize is a software component that post-processes HTML pages at runtime to optimize the resource references external to the page. Faster time to last byte is achieved by combining and compressing resources, and ensuring that cache headers for all resources are set to values that result in persistent caching by browser clients.

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What are the requirements?

Windows:

Supported websites: Microsoft SharePoint 2007, Microsoft ASP.NET 2.0+, ASP Classic, or any Microsoft IIS based intranet or website. e.g. SharePoint, EPiServer, DotNetNuke.

IIS versions: 6, 7 and 7.5

Operating System: Microsoft Windows 2003 Server, Microsoft Windows 2008 Server, Microsoft Windows Vista or Microsoft Windows 7.

Hardware specifications: x86 or x64 processor 1GHz or better, 128MB free memory, 100MB free disk space.

Server environment: Supports both single server and load balanced server environments.

SSL support: Supports SSL and non-SSL web pages.

Linux Apache

Supported websites: Static HTML, PHP/MySQL e.g. Joomla, Invision Power Board.

Apache versions: 2.2 and above

Operating System: Ubuntu 7.10, Debian 5, Fedora Core 5, RHEL 5, CentOS 5.3, Glibc 2.5+

Hardware specifications: 150MB RAM (50MB for high load + 100MB for memory cache (configurable). 32/64 bit supported.

Server environment: Supports single server, supports Name-Based Virtual Hosting.

SSL support: Supports SSL & non-SSL web pages.

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Why is it better than just developing my own solution?

As a developer, Aptimize lets you organize your source code assets in the most convenient fashion for encapsulation, reuse and maintainability, and still offer your users great runtime performance without the need to optimize the application by hand at build or deployment time. It also means that the optimization settings of your site are more portable between servers since no web server configuration is required.

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My website is highly customized. Can I use Aptimize?

Yes, most of our customer websites are highly customized. Our experienced web performance engineers will work closely with you to ensure the optimal setup for your environment.

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We use a CDN already, can Aptimize help?

Yes. Aptimize improves Content Delivery Networks (CDN) performance.  A CDN accelerates a web application by optimizing network connections, and caching web page resources closer to the end user.

Aptimize complements and improves performance on top of any improvements from a CDN, delivering the following capabilities

• Reduction in data traffic costs: Aptimize shrinks and compresses resources, and increases client-side caching, reducing CDN data traffic costs significantly
• Speed improvements. Page load times are reduced by merging the page JS, CSS and image resources into fewer files
• Optimization of external resources. Most CDNs do not accelerate resources referenced from external sites (like images and analytics scripts). Aptimize can automatically cache these resources locally and include them for CDN acceleration.
• Optimize HTML for faster rendering. Aptimize reorders page resources in the HTML for the fastest render times
• Versioning issues solved. Many CDNs perform only periodic version checking – meaning pages can be served with out-of-date resources.  Aptimize actively detects version changes and ensures pages stay up-to-date, with a unique auto-URL versioning mechanism and aggressive caching of resources on the browser.

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I'm not technical, can I use Aptimize?

Yes! We help you install Aptimize and configure it so it suits your unique settings. We don't expect you to go it alone. However...your website must be hosted on a dedicated server running on Microsoft Sharepoint 2007, ASP.NET or Linux/Apache.

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Can I trial first?

Yes. Request a trial.

The trial is fully functional. In trial mode the Aptimize watermark will appear in the top left of the screen. Once a license key is purchased and entered our watermark will disappear. Most customers trial on their pre-production/testing server.

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