Insider Web Site Optimizer Adds Enhances JavaScript, ASP, And XML Support

Insider Software today announced the release of SpaceAgent 2.5, which enhances the ability to optimize JavaScript, XML, and Active Server Pages (ASP), adding to its powerful arsenal of web site optimizing capabilities. In addition, the new version brings a free full-function demo mode to the SpaceAgent web-page optimizer product family.

New Full-Featured Demo Version

Insider offers a free demo version of SpaceAgent that lets developers optimize a web page at a time to test how SpaceAgent speeds up their sites. After buying the full version, users can simply drop an entire folder onto the SpaceAgent icon and it optimizes every page and image in the folder.

JavaScript, XML, and ASP Optimizer Delivers Compiler Benefits

SpaceAgent 2.5 removes comments, white space and unneeded data from JavaScript, XML, and ASP code. This enables browsers to render web pages faster and allows script language interpreters to parse and run scripts more efficiently. SpaceAgent's new capability brings optimizing-compiler benefits to interpreted scripting languages such as JavaScript and VBScript, and mark-up languages such as HTML and XML. Normally, scripting and markup language processors must do all optimization at runtime, thereby slowing down the rendering process.

Simple One-Step Web Site Optimization

To optimize their web sites, users simply drop a web page or a folder containing a web site onto the SpaceAgent window. In seconds, SpaceAgent writes the new optimized code wherever users specify, leaving the original code unmodified.

"There are web tools that compress graphics and those that compress HTML, but many of them break pages routinely, commented Insider president Rio Sabadicci. "The new SpaceAgent handles whatever web code and images you throw at it. After SpaceAgent optimizes the code and graphics, your pages load over 30% faster."

New Version Supports All Types of Text Files

SpaceAgent 2.5 also adds the ability to optimize any web-page text file, not just those with standard filetype identifiers such as .htm. Therefore, the new version enhances support for .js, .jss, .XML, .rml, .incl, .asp, .txt, .inc, .cfm, and .ssi.

Pricing and Availability

Insider SpaceAgent 2.5 is available for both Windows and Macintosh and can be downloaded immediately from Insider's web site at www.insidersoftware.com. Users can download the free demo version of SpaceAgent that optimizes one web page at a time. The full version of SpaceAgent is $249.95 US, is free to existing SpaceAgent customers, and is backed by a 30-day money-back guarantee. For additional information about SpaceAgent, 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, me, NT and 2000, as well as Power Macintosh and iMac computers running MacOS 7.5.5 or later.

About Insider SpaceAgent

Insider SpaceAgent is a Windows and Macintosh utility for webmasters and site designers that optimizes graphic images and code, eliminating extraneous information from GIF files, JPEG images, and HTML, XML, XHTML and CSS code. It optimizes manually created HTML code as well as code written by Microsoft FrontPage, Adobe GoLive, Macromedia DreamWeaver, Allaire HomeSite and other web-page creation tools. The resulting, smaller pages download and render over 30% faster, save precious bandwidth and reduce web server loads.

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, 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 owne