Site Optimizer is available as an appliance and as service via the cloud. No matter which implementation you choose, you’ll enjoy the same powerful optimization capabilities:
1. Site Optimizer simplifies large, complex web pages.
Depending on whom you ask, the average web page is 350-675k and contains anywhere between 44 and 78 objects. This means dozens of calls to the server are required to squeeze enormous amounts of content through an inadequate pipeline. There are volumes of coding best practices for reducing the number of server roundtrips and making pages smaller. Site Optimizer automatically applies these best practices across your website or web application, making each page as fast as possible.
2. Site Optimizer recognizes that not all browsers are created equal.
Each browser type has its own preference as to how it renders pages, so Site Optimizer creates a custom template for each browser. Not only does each page need fewer roundtrips to get to your user, but when the content does get there, it loads in the most efficient way possible.
3. Site Optimizer predicts where your visitors are likely to go, and preloads the relevant page elements in their browser to have on standby.
Site Optimizer constantly tracks and analyzes how your visitors use your site. Using this information, it predicts what pages people are most likely to want to see next, based on the page they're currently on, and even based on their previous visits to your site. Site Optimizer pushes the objects for these pages to the visitor’s browser, so that they're waiting on standby before the visitor clicks to see the next page. And when they do click, the result is instantaneous page load.
4. Site Optimizer optimizes your site for repeat visits and flows.
Successful sites attract repeat visitors who visit favorite pages or navigate consistently through the same sets of pages. Yet most websites do not take advantage of this behavior. Site Optimizer serves pages faster by using advanced techniques that optimize repeat views and accelerate targeted page flows through a website. The result: visitors never get the same resource twice and they are never, ever served stale resources.
5. Site Optimizer makes pages start loading faster.
How fast your visitors perceive your page to be is at least as important as how fast it actually is. The sooner a page begins to render in the browser, the faster it seems to your visitors. Site Optimizer starts loading pages faster by using a handful of techniques that create the illusion of faster page load: only showing images the user needs, progressively rendering images so they show up fast and quickly become high quality, and starting page render before the server has finished serving all the page resources.
6. Site Optimizer optimizes third-party content.
A key performance problem in modern websites is the proliferation of third-party tracking pixels, site analytics beacons, display ads, retargeting beacons, and widgets (such as Facebook and Twitter) -- all of which slow down pages. Site Optimizer minimizes the impact of third-party content by deferring and/or parallelizing third-party requests so they don't block key site content.
Not only does Site Optimizer work for you today, it takes care of you tomorrow.
Performance optimization is a neverending task. Our team of elite performance experts never stops reaching for greater and greater heights -- researching, creating and testing the latest bleeding-edge techniques to keep our customers at the front lines of site acceleration.
Want to dive into more technical detail?
Download the Site Optimizer Datasheet. For even more detail, read the Strangeloop Website Optimization Technology Whitepaper.