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.

[Zia]

ummm
getting 20%..

http://golpo.net/devsite
is our test site........

[Output: 19.15 Kb. compressed to 18.25 Kb. by saving 0.90 Kb. (4.72%)]
[page compression: 16.19 k/18.38 k (11.92%)]

in forum home getting it..

[The Chief]

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%)]

it's up for me...weird that it's doing that to you lizard king...?

[page compression: 76.49 k/89.26 k (14.31%)]

Hellcat, you rock sir. AnyMedia is fixed, and so far I can't find anything that's not as it should be.

[high]* Guest210212002 cheers and mashes the install button with viking-esque fury!
[/high]

One thing that'd be nice to add is a switch in the ACP for "show to admins only" that would toggle the conditional. I'm a total geek about this stuff and I like to see it all, but my members are mostly saying "What the heck is that stuff down below?"

[Zia]

in forum home...only using it

result...is it..
[page compression: 16.06 k/19.15 k (16.16%)]

who is getting the highest compression ??

for sure not the coder himself..hhe he should always get the highest out put

[The Chief]

Originally Posted by Zia

ummm
getting 20%..

http://golpo.net/devsite
is our test site........

[Output: 19.15 Kb. compressed to 18.25 Kb. by saving 0.90 Kb. (4.72%)]
[page compression: 16.19 k/18.38 k (11.92%)]

in forum home getting it..

yup, look at me, I'm getting more in the other pages then forumhome, which I think is normal..

check it out, http://www.myetalk.com/forums

[Lizard King]

Originally Posted by Hellcat

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



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)?

Pm Sent

i've been also doing some checks on my side and i get the same results with Opera , FF 1.5 and IE 6

[Zia]

Originally Posted by gamebgs

yup, look at me, I'm getting more in the other pages then forumhome, which I think is normal..

check it out, http://www.myetalk.com/forums

oh yeah u r getting more compression in forum inside...
[page compression: 66.74 k/75.63 k (11.75%)]

while forum home is ~9.5%

Not bad..its good....

[Zia]

Dear Hellcat

hope not bothering u.....
but asking... this one remove white spcace....
& realtime temp. compressor...compress maybe not remove white space...
can u modify it...bit more........
something similliar two in one....

[XtremeOffroad]

Installed and worked as described Clicks Install.
Thanks Hellcat

[DJ XtAzY]

nice but i like the compression for the first release, the new update one decreases very slightly

its prob because my css is used externally