New SpaceAgent Site Optimizer Dramatically Speeds Web Page Loading

Market Wire, 20050229

Insider Software today announced the immediate availability of SpaceAgent, a Windows and Macintosh utility for webmasters and site designers that typically makes web pages load 50 percent faster. In seconds, SpaceAgent optimizes graphic images and code written by web-page creation utilities, eliminating extraneous information, comments and white space from GIF files, JPEG images, and HTML, XML, XHTML and CSS code. The resulting, smaller pages download faster, render more quickly, save precious bandwidth and reduce web server loads.

Compatible with All Web Creation Tools

Insider SpaceAgent optimizes manually created HMTL code as well as code written by web-page authoring utilities including Microsoft FrontPage, Adobe GoLive, Macromedia DreamWeaver, Allaire HomeSite and others.

"Pages created by WYSIWYG web-page utilities are bloated with white space, tabs, comments, proprietary tags that make the code more readable, but severely lengthen both download and rendering times," said Rio Sabadicci, Insider president. "SpaceAgent is a perfect companion product for these tools, eliminating all their extraneous code and dramatically increasing web site performance."

Simple One-Step Web Site Optimization

To optimize their web sites, users simply drag a web page or a folder into the SpaceAgent window. In seconds, SpaceAgent writes the new optimized code wherever users specify, leaving the original code unmodified. Sabadicci commented, "Using SpaceAgent, it takes just seconds for anyone--designers, webmasters, engineers, even novices--to optimize every page and graphic in a site and create new, lightning-fast pages."

Dramatic Increases in Page Presentation Times

Insider SpaceAgent includes graphics optimizers that typically compress both GIF and JPEG graphics files by 30% without losing detail or changing web-page appearance. Because the pages must be processed by multiple systems, including web servers, networks and users' browsers, SpaceAgent speeds presentation times by even greater percentages.

"I used SpaceAgent and our web site is now noticeably faster, said John Childress Locke. "SpaceAgent's optimized code burns past the old pages in rendering speed. Impressive."

Pricing and Availability

Insider SpaceAgent is available for both Windows and Macintosh platforms and can be downloaded immediately from Insider's web site at www.insidersoftware.com. Users can download a free demo version of SpaceAgent that analyzes their web pages and reports how much more efficient SpaceAgent can make them. The full version of SpaceAgent, $69.95 US, produces the optimized pages, and is available through an introductory offer until August 31 of $49.95 US. SpaceAgent is backed with a 30-day money-back guarantee. For more information, users can send mail to spaceagent@insidersoftware.com or call 1-800-700-6340 or +1-760-804-9900.

System Requirements

Insider SpaceAgent requires four megabytes of memory to run, two megabytes of disk space, plus enough disk space to store optimized web pages as users create them. It is built for PCs running Windows 95, 98, NT and 2000, as well as Power Macintosh and iMac computers running MacOS 7.1 or later.

About Insider Software

Insider Software, founded in 1993 and based in Carlsbad, California, creates web and system management software that makes computers run better. In addition to Insider SpaceAgent, Insider also produces Insider FontAgent, the leading Macintosh font maintenance and repair utility for Macintosh, and Insider UpdateAgent, which updates all the software on a Macintosh in two clicks.

SpaceAgent, UpdateAgent, FontAgent, Insider, and the Insider logo are trademarks of Insider Software. Other products mentioned are trademarks of their respective owners.