HELLCAT's Realtime Page Compressor

This is my version of a realtime page compressor.
The idea is based on ShiningArcanine's port of the "Realtime Template Compressor", that is also based on the original concept by Logician, and can be found in this thread:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=83248

But since my version doesn't contain any of his original code anymore (even the regular expressions have been rewritten) and I added a bunch of new features I finally decided to release this one as a speperate thing.

Features:

• Copmresses the final HTML output sent to the browser by ~10% to ~15%
  (see bellow for how this is achived)
• Full controll via AdminCP options
  (you can turn it ON/OFF and choose if, and how the stats should be displayed - see screenshot)
• Stats display can be fully customized via template edit
• Areaes with intentional/wanted whitespace are left untouched
  (So this does not mess up user inputted text, text in [code] blocks and the such....)
• JavaScript blocks are kept intact and functional

What does this exately do?
This plugin strips all unneccesary whitespace, linebreaks and HTML comments out of the final HTML code that vBulletin sends to the browser.
This way the pages get a bit smaller (saving bandwidth) and the browser often renders the pages faster since there's no whitespace it must skip.

Passages that are enclosed by <pre> and <textarea> tags are left untouched completely so text posted in [code], [php] and other bb-tags of that sort are not affected and kept like the user intended them to be.
Passages enclosed in <script> tags are only striped from leading whitspace but not of linebreaks - this way JavaScript (and other) code will remain functional and does not get messed up.


How to install
Couldn't be more easy.
If you have any other page/template complression tool installed -> uninstall it first.

Then go to "AdminCP -> Product Manager -> Add/Import product" and import the .XML you downloaded here.

Now go to the "vBulletin Options" in the AdminCP, under "Help Server Settings and Optimization Options" you will find the "Realtime Page Compressor Options" settings group.
Open the settings, change them to what you want and hit "SAVE"
(It's important that you SAVE the options even when you want to use the defaults! For vB to actually create theese settings in the DB they have to be saved at least once!!!)

Done

More details are in the README.


Have fun!


UPDATE 1.10
Not a day old and here comes the first update

• Added compatibility for the "Any Media BB Code"
  Before the Any Media BB Code was screwed up in IE when the compressor was active -> FIXED
• Raised compresseion ratio another 1 to 3 percent
  "Code comments" (stuff between "/*" and "*/" - used in CSS and JS for example) are now striped as well.

Update 1.20

• Added the option to show the stats display to admins only.
  Go to "AdminCP -> vBulletin Options -> Real Time Compressor Settings" and you will find the new option there.
• Fixed the "uncached template" issue
• Tweaked the RegEx' a bit more
  But they still need quite some optimization/tweaking

Update 1.21

• Added HTML tag to exclude blocks from compression
  Put blocks of HTML source between <nocompress>Your Source</nocompress> tags to have it untouched by the page compression.

[Dennis B]

Great stuff, just waiting for that ACP option to allow only admins to view the results.

[Megareus Rex]

My average savings is ~10%. Thanks for this! Its even easy to configure

PS: I was one of the first 10 to click install last night >.>

[Rich]

Hello,

You did a great job. I too have seen a better compression rate over the other version I was running. I average anywhere from %8 - %18 depending on the page. Great work!

> > Rich clicks install

[thedvs]

INSTALLED!
awesome! thanks you v. much

love the fact you can place the results where you want, especially for the people who use custom skins. very nice.

[ryuji]

you typo'd compress in the description

[Zia]

this one works better then real time template compressor...

i tried using both......
This One ReaLLy RoCkS...

Thanks Again Hellcat

[Totti]

thanks alot hellcat ... uninstalled the old one, using yours ...
but the sourcecode is really messed up now (when you try to bugfix wth), great work

[theFAILURE]

Great work, on average I get 11%

[EricaJoy]

Originally Posted by 99SIVTEC

it's almost a complete rewrite of vbulletin, thousands of file edits, changed templates, etc. We have lots of commented code in various places while we are in development. the site is almost ready for prime time, then i'll post a link (we launch the first beta tomorrow)

i've seen your new site. it looks good. nice work.

[puertoblack2003]

great hack but i have uncached template i seen that one other member had the problem but didn't explain how to fix it.. :ermm:

Note:

Uncached templates: pagecompressor_stats (1)

Admened: not for this instruction what tempalte are you referring..:

If you have choosen the "use HTML-Tag" option for displaying the stats, you have to include a special HTML tag somewhere in one of your templates for the stats to show up.

The tag is: <cmpstat />