Optimizing the outgoing data for your Microsoft IIS based websites, on platforms such as SharePoint 2007 or ASP.NET, could help effectively reduce page load times by 33-75%.

This high performance can be achieved with ease and configurability using our server side component - Aptimize.

Aptimize loads seamlessly as an ISAPI filter, or alternatively an ASP.NET module for your IIS based web server.  An installation script takes just minutes, and an easy to use graphical interface will guide you through the preconfigured optimizations.

Once installed there are several ways Aptimize will increase server performance. The number of http requests to your IIS based web server reduces drastically through optimizations such as JavaScript and CSS combining. Aptimize optimizes your web page by combining multiple image files into one CSS sprite sheet. Add in Gzip compression technology supported by most modern browsers and you are able to make impressive improvements in your IIS performance by shrinking the size of your web page by up to 75%. This is all achieved without making any changes to your existing website code.

Aptimize supports many of the most common JavaScript frameworks, and will automatically set optimizations based on browser capability.

Page load times are further decreased for the website visitor through the Aptimize caching system. Saving updated copies of pages once they’ve been optimized allows for even faster serving, and decreases server stress under heavy traffic. Aptimize will automatically detect and save a new copy of any page that has been updated; this feature can easily be disabled for those pages you may not wish to cache.

Prerequisites

1. Windows 2003 Server, Windows 2008 Server, or Windows Vista 32bit or 64 bit
2. IIS 6, IIS 7 or IIS 7.5 (supports both Integrated and classic modes)
3. Any ASP classic, ASP.NET 2.0, SharePoint, PHP based intranet or internet site (the Website Accelerator does not support ASP.NET 1.1)
4. 192MB of free RAM (92 MB for the Website Accelerator and 100 MB for the memory cache)
5. Supports either single server or load balanced environment

Aptimize is a powerful, yet simple solution for your single or load-balanced IIS servers. Easy configuration allows for ultimate flexibility when it comes to fine tuning the optimizations to meet your needs.

Page load time is the first impression a visitor to your web site receives, it makes sense to ensure your web performance is as fast as possible. To see similar results with manual changes to your web server would take hours, however Aptimize automates the optimization process increasing IIS performance by accelerating page load times ensuring you capture and retain every visitor to your website.