Even faster web sites

Even faster web sites

by Steve Souders
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Performance is critical to the success of any web site, and yet today's web applications push browsers to their limits with increasing amounts of rich content and heavy use of Ajax.

In this book, Steve Souders, web performance evangelist at Google and former Chief Performance Yahoo!, provides valuable techniques to help you optimize your site's performance.

Souders' previous book, the bestselling High Performance Web Sites, shocked the web development world by revealing that 80% of the time it takes for a web page to load is on the client side.

In Even Faster Web Sites, Souders and eight expert contributors provide best practices and pragmatic advice for improving your site's performance in three critical categories:JavaScript—Get advice for understanding Ajax performance, writing efficient JavaScript, creating responsive applications, loading scripts without blocking other components, and more.

Network—Learn to share resources across multiple domains, reduce image size without loss of quality, and use chunked encoding to render pages faster.

Browser—Discover alternatives to iframes, how to simplify CSS selectors, and other techniques.

Speed is essential for today's rich media web sites and Web 2.

0 applications.

With this book, you'll learn how to shave precious seconds off your sites' load times and make them respond even faster.

This book contains six guest chapters contributed by Dion Almaer, Doug Crockford, Ben Galbraith, Tony Gentilcore, Dylan Schiemann, Stoyan Stefanov, Nicole Sullivan, and Nicholas C.

Zakas.

First published
2009
Publishers
O'Reilly
Language
English

This book helped me solve site issues in approximately 10 minutes. If you are a web developer, you need this book to help you round out your skill set as you move on to an architect role.

Wolfe's heroine in this Canadian mystery series is the irascible, formerly prescription painkiller-addicted Detective Hazel Micallef, a dinosaur defending her niche in the Port Dundas Police department against the influx of new technology and the streamlined methods currently embraced by modern law enforcement, including her replacement as top dog, Ray Green, soon to be her supervisor. Hazel has a finite amount of time to solve the current homicide of a popular local figure, Henry Weist, and learn how such a successful, well-liked businessman might get himself killed outside a nearby Indian reservation.

This is a great, detailed follow-up to [[ASIN:0596529309 High Performance Web Sites]].Browsers are changing fast, so some of the optimizations presented in this book could end up being unnecessary or even counterproductive.

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