Hello Ian,
I've configured the CRF at DNN 6.1.1 and it helped me to combine css and js files. Although i see only one css file, for js it is about 4. I think Client Dependency Framework has some problems with collecting js files.
Although i have full access to server, I'm seeing that compression is not enabled at some of the Js files generated by CRF using axd format. I checked headers and at request header there is gzip placed but for response i am not getting the gzip...
After that i enabled Failed Request Tracing and logs tell me that axd files not compressed because of non-frequent visits. Although it is a development environment, i want to make sure compression is working by IIS, since DNN compression is not working now.
Whatever i tried, I'm getting very slow load time compared to a DNN 5.x release. Is this because of buggy compression? Or an app pool problem?
My supervisor told me to go back to DNN 5.x. Will i really need to abondon DNN 6.1.1? I also have Pageblaster license to use (thanks to John). But, for some reason I'm a bit puzzled.
I haven't had time to check your new project but I'll certainly have a look. Besides, i must find a silent environment to think about the issue.
In the mean time, I want to think that DNN Team will fix Compression issues prior to fixing any other non-critical ones.