Snapt Turbo is an idea which was originally (to our knowledge) started by the WordPress community. “Turbo” is the idea of using Google Gears to accelerate a website as opposed to storing an offline copy. With Snapt turbo and Google Gears you can store all of the CSS, images and javascript on your local machine meaning even over a latent or slow link your Snapt experience is Turbo-Charged!

How To Use It

When you first go to Turbo, you’ll notice it will either tell you to install Gears as in the screenshot below (and guide you through it) or if you have installed Gears it will skip to step 2.

Once you have it running, you’ll be presented with a screen allowing you to “begin the download of files”. Once you start that process you will see a progress bar guiding your download. Depending on your connection to the framework it may take a while! If you are on a LAN connection it should be over in less than a minute. A preview of what to expect is below.

After the download you can refresh the page and you should see a confirmation message letting you know everything is fine (as seen below). Now your experience is Turbo-Charged!

This feature is included free with all Snapt Frameworks, and includes the acceleration of any Snaptin modules.