#RequestReduce RequestReduce Makes your website faster - sometimes much faster - with almost no effort
- Auto generates sprites from your background images
- Optimizes Sprite PNG format and compression
- Minifies CSS and Javascript
- Optimizes [caching headers and ETags] (http://github.com/mwrock/RequestReduce/wiki/Will-browsers-cache-the-css-and-image-files-that-RequestReduce-serves%3F)
- Runs on any IIS web site including Classic ASP and PHP
- Can sync content across [multiple web servers] (http://github.com/mwrock/RequestReduce/wiki/Will-RequestReduce-sync-css-and-sprite-image-files-across-all-of-the-web-servers-in-my-web-farm%3F)
- Works well with [CDNs] (http://github.com/mwrock/RequestReduce/wiki/Can-I-have-all-RequestReduce-CSS-and-sprite-resources-pulled-from-a-CDN%3F)
- Compiles [Less, Sass and Coffee script] (https://github.com/mwrock/RequestReduce/wiki/Less%2C-Sass-and-Coffee-Script-Compilation)
##Getting started
- If you have [Nuget] (http://docs.nuget.org/docs/start-here/installing-nuget), simply enter
Install-Package RequestReducein the Package Manager Console and skip steps two and three, otherwise download the latest RequestReduce version [here] (http://www.requestreduce.com/) - Extract the contents of the downloaded zip and copy RequestReduce.dll and optipng.exe to your website's bin directory
- If you want to sync multiple servers with SqlServer copy te DLLs in RequestReduce.SqlServer to your bin directory
- If you have Less, Sass or Coffee scripts, copy the DLLs from RequestReduce.SassLessCoffee to your bin to compile these to CSS and Javascript
- Add the RequestReduceModule to your web.config or using the IIS GUI.
Assuming you are using IIS 7, you would add it by ensuring that your web.config's system.webServer/modules element contains an add element as follows:
<system.web>
<httpModules>
<add name="RequestReduce" type="RequestReduce.Module.RequestReduceModule, RequestReduce" />
</httpModules>
</system.web>
<system.webServer>
<validation validateIntegratedModeConfiguration="false"/>
<modules>
<add name="RequestReduce" type="RequestReduce.Module.RequestReduceModule, RequestReduce" />
</modules>
</system.webServer>
All background images you want to sprite [must have an explicit width in their css class] (http://github.com/mwrock/RequestReduce/wiki/Can-I-make-changes-to-my-CSS-classes-to-optimize-RequestReduce-spriting%3F). Otherwise RequestReduce cannot guarantee that the background positions it injects will not cause adjacent sprites to bleed into a background image's view port. Also, RequestReduce will ignore repeating images so make sure to mark the image no-repeat if it is not a repeating image.
##Troubleshooting If RequestReduce does not appear to be doing anything, check out this [troubleshooting wiki] (https://github.com/mwrock/RequestReduce/wiki/RequestReduce-is-not-working.-I-don%27t-see-any-spriting-or-minification.-How-can-I-troubleshoot-this%3F) which provides several scenarios, options and debugging tips for figuring out why your content may not be being reduced. Also check the [list of wiki support pages] (https://github.com/mwrock/RequestReduce/wiki) which provides documentation addressing several topics to help you optimize RequestReduce and explain how RequestReduce works.
##Requirements
- The Core RequestReduce Dll is Compatible with Framework versions 3.5 and 4.0
- Sql Server integration and Less, Sass and Coffee compilation require .net 4.0
- Standard Features are Medium Trust compliant
- The identity that your asp.net worker process runs under must have write access to your web root directory for creating sprite and css files
##What's Next? There are a ton of features I intend to add in order to make web performance optimizations just happen as part of installing Request Reduce. Here is what's at the top of the backlog:
- Support defered javascript loading
- Leverege CSS 3 to allow RequestReduce to sprite more images without any need for css modifications for supporting browsers
- Options to sprite foreground images
- Provide a command line utility for incorporating RequestReduce optimizations into a build task
##Resources
- Read more about what is available in Request Reduce on the [wiki] (http://github.com/mwrock/RequestReduce/wiki).
- Follow [@mwrockx] (http://twitter.com/mwrockx) for updates on twitter
- Report a bug or suggest a feature [here] (http://github.com/mwrock/RequestReduce/issues)
- Get details on upgrades, upcoming features and case studies on my blog at Http://mattwrock.com
##Acknowledgements RequestReduce uses the following excellent OSS and other Free projects:
###RequestReduce Core
- Microsoft Ajax Minifier licensed under Apache 2.0 : http://ajaxmin.codeplex.com/
- StructureMap by Jeremy D. Miller, The Shade Tree Developer and Joshua Flanagan licensed under Apache 2.0 : http://structuremap.net/structuremap/
- nQuant by Matt Wrock licensed under Apache 2.0 : http://nquant.codeplex.com
###RequestReduce.SqlServer
- Peta Poco by TopTen Software licensed under Apache 2.0 : http://www.toptensoftware.com/petapoco/
###RequestReduce.SassLessCoffee
- .less by Christopher Owen, Erik van Brakel, Daniel Hoelbling and James Foster licensed under Apache 2.0 : http://www.dotlesscss.org/
- SassAndCoffee by Paul Betts under the Microsoft Public License (Ms-PL) : https://github.com/xpaulbettsx/SassAndCoffee
###RequestReduce Internal Code (testing and building)
- XUnit by Brad Wilson and Jim Newkirk under the Microsoft Public License (Ms-PL) : http://xunit.codeplex.com/
- Moq by Clarius, Manas and InSTEDD under BSD License: http://code.google.com/p/moq/
- PSake by James Kovacs under MIT License : http://code.google.com/p/psake/
- ILMerge by Mike Barnett licensed under Apache 2.0 : http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/people/mbarnett/ILMerge.aspx
- TestDriven.net by Mutant Design : http://www.testdriven.net
- Resharper by Jetbrains under OS License : http://www.jetbrains.com/resharper/
##License Licenced under [Apache 2.0] (http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0)
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