Strangeloop Boosts Website Performance

According to Strangeloop Networks president Joshua Bixby, the growing complexity of the Web and rise of “borderless applications” where various components of a Web application are actually running on different sites, IT organizations are struggling with applications that appear to be getting slower with each successive generation.

While IT organizations could opt to improve performance by rewriting Web applications using modern HTML5 tools, Bixby says that most Web applications could run a whole lot faster if they were simply tuned properly.

Site Optimizer builds a knowledge base of the characteristics of various browsers. It then caches images and objects that are commonly used on a site in a container. Those images are then accessed as a group each time one of those images is called, which serves to substantially reduce the number of requests being made between the browser and the server.

Bixby, who has compiled a library of reference material on optimizing website performance, says that as search engine companies such as Google start to factor website performance into their page ranking systems, most IT organizations are going to come under pressure to optimize their website performance. Bixby says Site Optimizer can help those organizations by accelerating load times by as much as 50 percent.

Site Optimizer can be deployed on a virtual appliance in the cloud, or on premise of a dedicated appliance.