My viewstate used to be at the bottom of my page and now it is at the top. I am not sure when\how that changed. Could someone point me in the right direction on how to fix that?

The Free PageBlaster for DotNetNuke Performance and SEO will move it back down to the bottom.

Viewstate is used to keep information about the state of your form (input boxes, grids, etc.) so that when you do an update on a page it "remembers" the state that the form was last in before the post.  As in what page you were on in a grid for example.  Or the Address information you filled in before posting, but it had an error that needs to be corrected.

If you are using Http Compression, then manipulating the viewstate to remove it from and add it back to each page request might actually hurt performance instead of helping it.