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.

[Hellcat]

Glad you like it

And there goes the first update already
(read release post above for details)

To Upgrade:
Just import the new .XML and be sure to check the "Allow overwrite" option!

Originally Posted by gamebgs

It would be awesome if you could try something like this for the vB Drupal extension, like an add-on or something

I took a quick look at Drupal....
Seems not perfectly integrated, it didn't even use my customized templates from the style I had running
And it doesn't fire the vB hooks, so no compression there (yet).

But I might look deeper into this when I get the time.

[Zia]

HOLLY SHIT

How Could I have missed it...Damn To me...

Many thanks & Well wishes to HELLCAT'


Its really amagiz thing....


Kliks Install

[99SIVTEC]

Works great. Saved almost 40 percent on some pages of my test site.

[The Chief]

Originally Posted by Hellcat

Glad you like it

And there goes the first update already
(read release post above for details)

To Upgrade:
Just import the new .XML and be sure to check the "Allow overwrite" option!





I took a quick look at Drupal....
Seems not perfectly integrated, it didn't even use my customized templates from the style I had running
And it doesn't fire the vB hooks, so no compression there (yet).

But I might look deeper into this when I get the time.

that's great, thanks Hellcat

[Zia]

Originally Posted by 99SIVTEC

Works great. Saved almost 40 percent on some pages of my test site.

wow man.....

whats ur site????

[Zia]

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

i got allready install Realtime template compressure by ShiningArcanine..

asking again...i must uninstall that? b4 install it?
should both 2 hack compress more?? (may be a fools qus) sorry..but askin..im too curious....

thnx

[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)

Originally Posted by Zia

wow man.....

whats ur site????

[Lizard King]

I dont know what you changed in the new version but the new version is way worse then the old one. The compression level is down to 1%

forumhome : [page compression: 87.79 k/89.21 k (1.59%)]
forumdisplay : [page compression: 115.41 k/116.54 k (0.97%)]
showthread : [page compression: 168.07 k/169.85 k (1.05%)]

[Zia]

im using both 2 hack...
realtime template compressor & this one in testsite

[Output: 60.98 Kb. compressed to 55.97 Kb. by saving 5.01 Kb. (8.22%)]
[page compression: 52.74 k/56.09 k (5.98%)]

result is it.........ummm

what abt using both together? i dont know abt it using both...creating probs or not

want xperts opinion ..

[Hellcat]

Originally Posted by Zia

i got allready install Realtime template compressure by ShiningArcanine..

asking again...i must uninstall that? b4 install it?
should both 2 hack compress more?? (may be a fools qus) sorry..but askin..im too curious....

thnx

They might interfere with each other, so better only use one at a time, not both simultaniously....

Originally Posted by Lizard King

I dont know what you changed in the new version but the new version is way worse then the old one. The compression level is down to 1%

forumhome : [page compression: 87.79 k/89.21 k (1.59%)]
forumdisplay : [page compression: 115.41 k/116.54 k (0.97%)]
showthread : [page compression: 168.07 k/169.85 k (1.05%)]

This is weird....
I'm getting almost ~20% on my test install.
Can you take a look at the generated source code and see if there's any comments left or something?
Maybe even send me a copy of that HTML page (the source of it)?