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IIS Traffic Monitor

Shad — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 08:28:19 GMT

While trying to work out which users on a server were consuming the most resources, I realised there was no easy way to see how much bandwidth an IIS website has used for a given period in time. A quick search showed plenty of commercial products that could be installed as filters to keep track of this kind of thing, but there didn't appear to be anything quick, simple and importantly, free.

So I found some source code that uses Microsoft Log Parser (also free) to interrogate the log files for each site, and come up with a number to show how much traffic has gone through a website. I packaged it up into a nice little application and that's what you see here.

IISxpress 2.5

ripcord — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 19:48:02 GMT

IISxpress is a powerful and highly configurable compression plug-in for IIS. IISxpress enhances the latest Microsoft web technologies like ASP.NET and Ajax (not forgetting ASP, ISAPI Coldfusion and CGI) by reducing page footprint allowing you to concentrate on deploying rich content without worrying about end user download performance and bandwidth costs.

With IISxpress you can significantly reduce the download footprint of HTML, JS, CSS, XML, SOAP, XMLRPC and most binary content types.

IISxpress is FREE to use on Windows Vista, and XP Professional. On Windows 2003 and 2008 IISxpress is FREE for non-profit organizations, for commercial and government use IISxpress is $79 per installed server.

Free versions of IISxpress do not contain spyware or adware and are functionally identical to the full commercial version. You just get 100% compression and nothing else.

CacheRight

port80 — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 15:34:10 GMT

Speed up repeat Web site and application visits (and reduce server strain) with cache control... A 304 Not Modified Web server response is a waste of time. Why should repeat Web visitors request the same content over and over when it can be cached and accessed faster from a local browser or proxy cache? CacheRight allows developers to easily craft and administer effective cache control policies for every Microsoft IIS site resource through a single rules file -- dramatically speeding up sites and eliminating unnecessary requests for more throughput. Use CacheRight to centralize caching policies rather than creating rules in a one-off fashion via IIS, and deliver faster pages for happier customers and more productive corporate users. Cache control for many developers is limited to using the META tag or relying on the Last-Modified date for a file. Unfortunately, this technique is time consuming, fails to leverage browser and proxy caches, works poorly for HTML output, and does nothing at all for the most cache-worthy items in a site – images! With CacheRight, a simple configuration rules file in the Web site's home directory enables developers to set up rules that control expiration by file location or file type. After first access, unchanging images, PDFs, Flash, multimedia files and other page elements are delivered crisply from the repeat user's browser cache. Dynamic content is served guaranteed fresh, without competing with validation requests and static content for precious server cycles and bandwidth. Send data less often for IIS speed and Web server efficiency with CacheRight! CacheRight is available as a free 30-day trial, and, like all Port80 Software products, CacheRight includes free IIS technical support.

w3compiler

port80 — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 19:11:00 GMT

Develop leaner more secure code, for faster, safer Web sites with the w3compiler. Leading sites like Google and eBay hand optimize their mark-up and Ajax JavaScript files before upload, gaining up to 70% in file size savings. This best practice is time-consuming for most Web developers, but with the w3compiler, code optimization is automated and integrates smoothly with your work flow. Port80 Software’s w3compiler works the way developers do: create pages in developer-friendly mark-up and script, then let the tool optimize the changes and deploy them in your target Windows Microsoft IIS Web server directory – a natural final step before launching new pages. w3compiler is also extremely safe. Feed it perfect XHTML and that's what your optimized targets will be: perfect XHTML. Feed it less than stellar mark-up, and your pages still won't break! w3compiler always employs safe compression techniques, and you can verify work with side-by-side visual and code comparison tools. w3compiler uses a complete JavaScript parser, making it the most advanced compressor on the market. Like a programming language compiler, the tool optimizes all or selected JavaScript, (X)HTML, CSS, ASP, ASP.NET, PHP, and CFM files, removing redundant structures and creating optimized duplicates of your pages ready for any browser. Variables, functions, objects, and redundant syntax are all minimized automatically. w3compiler is so syntax-aware that it won't break even sloppy code. In addition to code optimization, w3compiler can also manage file names and extensions, making sites smaller and more secure by renaming files to minimal form. The tool strips file extensions, enabling persistent, negotiable 'clean' URLs using PageXchanger for IIS. By reducing your file sizes by up to 30-60%, you will lower your bandwidth expenses. By removing white space and comments, your code will be harder to steal and hack. By sending your users leaner code, your pages will load noticeably faster. Start w3compiling today! w3compiler is available as a free 30-day trial, and, like all Port80 Software products, w3compiler includes free technical support.

PageXchanger

port80 — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 15:34:20 GMT

Negotiate language and file preferences with browsers -- and remove pesky file extensions from your Web sites! PageXchanger offers a unique approach to Web site content, source code and even URLs. This Microsoft IIS server tool separates content from the underlying Web technology, providing a powerful form of content negotiation so that Web sites can use cleaner URLs in source code and Web browser displays. Eliminate and hide accessed file types from the site visitor by enabling developers to remove any extension (.html, .aspx, .php, .js, .gif, etc.) from source code, making your IIS-based Web sites and applications more secure (application layer masking), more friendly (file presentation based on browser and server preferences) and easier to maintain (faster migration to new technologies). With clean URLs, site security is strengthened by masking the technology a Web site was built upon from potential hackers. Obscure your Web site's technology platform with PageXchanger to stop hacker exploits like direct URL guesses and source sifting. PageXchanger allows for multiple forms of content to be served automatically by separating content from underlying site technologies. Deliver the same page in multiple languages, with content served up appropriately based on the user's default language settings in their Web browser. Developers can present multiple forms of images or other data – use PNG images, XHTML, client-side XML and other advanced technologies along side existing content safely and easily without complex browser detection or rewriting the entire site. Save time and money when you present persistent URLs in all company communications and avoiding annoying redirects, broken links or lost search engine rankings. Migration from one technology to another, say from ColdFusion to ASP.NET, is also faster, more reliable, and completely transparent to end users. Get into content negotiation on IIS with PageXchanger today! PageXchanger is available as a free 30-day trial, and, like all Port80 Software products, PageXchanger includes free IIS technical support.

httpZip

port80 — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 15:37:14 GMT

HTTP compression accelerates page load, speeds up web apps, and reduces bandwidth costs dramatically. HttpZip transparently compresses Web pages to reduce file sizes to as little as 2% of their original size (that’s 98% smaller!).

Safe defaults make httpZip an excellent choice for hosting providers or any site/app with complex code.
With MIME type, file, and directory exclusions, browser compatibility checking delivers granular control over safe file compression.
HttpZip's in-memory compression cache minimizes CPU overhead by serving static and many dynamic pages in a pre-compressed format.
Optional white space removal for HTML and CSS delivers an additional 5-10% savings (and prevents hackers from source sifting).
Access Compression settings via a GUI settings manager, a COM interface for developers seeking in-code compression control
Accurate HTML reporting measures performance gains.

HttpZip will quickly pay for itself by reducing bandwidth costs and dramatically improving network response times for Web sites and applications.

HttpZip is available as a Free 30-Day Trial, and, like all Port80 Software products, httpZip includes free IIS technical support.

ZipEnable 4.0 (for IIS 6)

port80 — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 15:20:37 GMT

64-bit support - New in Version 4.0 (released March 2009)

Windows Server 2003/ IIS 6.0 offers great out-of-the-box compression embedded in the core web server code. ZipEnable is an add-on tool that allows easy configuration and additional features so you get the most out built-in compression.

Granularly Manage IIS 6.0 Native Compression
Enable Real-time Browser Compatibility Checking - a feature absent with built-in compression
Make Changes at Global, Site, Directory, and File levels
Access Via a GUI Settings Manager -- without writing a line of code or editing the IIS metabase
Easily Configure Compression on All Static and Dynamic Files
CPU roll-off keeps compression CPU cycles in check.

IIS 6 compression works -- you just need ZipEnable to deploy and manage it safely.

ZipEnable is available as a Free 30-Day Trial, and, like all Port80 Software products, ZipEnable includes free IIS technical support.

WCat 6.3 (x64)

Microsoft — Tue, 15 May 2007 09:44:25 GMT

Web Capacity Analysis Tool (WCAT) is a lightweight HTTP load generation tool primarily designed to measure the performance of a web server within a controlled environment. WCAT can simulate thousands of concurrent users making requests to a single web site or multiple web sites. The WCAT engine uses a simple script to define the set of HTTP requests to be played back to the web server. Extensibility is provided through plug-in DLLs and a standard, simple API.

WCat 6.3 (x86)

Microsoft — Tue, 15 May 2007 09:39:12 GMT

Web Performance Monitor

jtackabury — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 09:36:47 GMT

Web Performance Monitor is an easy to use web-based performance monitoring application. It allows you to monitor performance counters from your local or remote computer, in real time. It supports all major browsers, supports running over SSL and uses Ajax for smooth updates.

Runtime Page Optimizer (RPO)

edrob — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 14:34:04 GMT

RPO (Runtime Page Optimizer) is an IIS 6/7 webserver software component that increases performance of ASP.NET and SharePoint websites up to 200% or more.

The RPO works at runtime (no code changes required)

It applies three techniques:

Compress + minify JavaScript and CSS files
Combine multiple JavaScript, CSS and images into fewer files
Caches optimized resources on the server and better client side caching - automatically caching images, JSS, CSS cached until they change on the server

Results: performance improvements by reducing the effect of latency from slow networks and long distance

SmartPeak Workload Management (WLM)

smartpeak — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 22:09:17 GMT

SmartPeak WLM's comprehensive workload management and optimization allows consolidation of multiple web application pools on to a single IIS server, reducing cost and improving manageability. SmartPeak WLM can be implemented on servers running Microsoft IIS to dynamically partition the allocation of system resources to individual Application Pools within IIS. This enables IT Administrators to dynamically maintain Service Level Agreements whilst consolidating multiple web applications, whether on physical or virtual servers. Even when only a single web application is being hosted on an IIS server, SmartPeak WLM can prevent contention with other system processes. SmartPeak WLM can also help to mitigate the effects of Denial of Service attacks by ensuring that processes are not permitted to monopolize the CPU.

LinkFreeze

helicontech — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 21:39:02 GMT

LinkFreeze is a fast and easy solution to optimize dynamic or database-driven website for search engines. It optimizes all dynamic links on your site removing all unwanted characters and making links look like static. No need to change anything in the existing web applications, simply apply LinkFreeze and entire your site becomes search engines friendly. Even more, all old backward links will still be valid.

ISAPI_Rewrite

helicontech — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 21:38:04 GMT

ISAPI_Rewrite is a powerful URL manipulation engine based on the regular expressions. It acts mostly like Apache's mod_Rewrite but was designed for Microsoft IIS web server. It can be used to allow dynamic pages be indexed by search engines, stop hotlinking, proxy another server content, manipulate incoming request headers and strengthen server security. It supports regexp rules and conditions to create really flexible URL manipulations. And there is also freeware Lite version of this product!

WebQuota

flicks — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 21:34:24 GMT

Limit concurrent logins to your website and automatically terminate compromised accounts. Apply throttles to usage - by KBytes, requests or logins in a given period. Includes dictionary attack prevention and referral protection.

Realtime Anti Profanity Content

smartiis — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 22:11:12 GMT

Filter your webserver content in realtime, by replacing a list of defined words. Replacing the "bad words" with a pattern is ideal for communities, forums, blogs with children's audience. Using highly optimized routines, it works with the smallest demand of hardware resources. You can download different "bad words" language dictionaries, and edit them by using a simple text editor.

Realtime Compress Content

smartiis — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 22:10:30 GMT

Compress Content is designed and optimized for real time compression of the result of application programming backends, such as ASP.NET. The solutions on the market usually don't compress the output produced by backends, because this involves a significant increase in CPU processing and lower efficiency. Today most of the web sites are powered by dynamic engines. Common web information systems, blogs, forums, CRMs: almost all of their parts are produced by programming backends. Compress Content is made to satisfy the requirements of today's web sites, where the logic and complexity are committed to a programming backend, and where the mission critical services require a 100% reliable QA modeled software, with the highest possible efficiency.

Aptimize Website Accelerator

aptimize — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 01:04:12 GMT

The world's biggest companies trust Aptimize to accelerate their websites and intranets. Aptimize Website Accelerator is an ISAPI filter for Microsoft IIS that automates performance tuning by dynamically optimizing web pages for high performance at runtime - just before a page is sent from web server to browser. Aptimize helps you reduce page load times by up to 75%.