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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.
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Steve Souders works at Google on web performance and open source initiatives. His books High Performance Web Sites and Even Faster Web Sites explain his best practices for performance along with the research and real-world results behind them. Steve is the creator of YSlow, the performance analysis extension to Firebug with more than 1 million downloads. He serves as co-chair of Velocity, the web performance and operations conference sponsored by O'Reilly. Steve taught CS193H: High Performance Web Sites at Stanford, and he frequently speaks at such conferences as OSCON, Rich Web Experience, Web 2.0 Expo, and The Ajax Experience.
Steve previously worked at Yahoo! as the Chief Performance Yahoo!, where he blogged about web performance on Yahoo! Developer Network. He was named a Yahoo! Superstar. Steve worked on many of the platforms and products within the company, including running the development team for My Yahoo!. Prior to Yahoo! Steve worked at several small to mid-sized startups including two companies he co-founded, Helix Systems and CoolSync. He also worked at General Magic, WhoWhere?, and Lycos.
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Essential reading for cutting-edge browser development,
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This review is from: Even Faster Web Sites: Performance Best Practices for Web Developers (Paperback)
This book contains information I just couldn't find elsewhere. I haven't had a chance to explore the whole book, but what I've read so far contains a rich mine of information about Comet, making the JavaScript itself more efficient, loading scripts asynchronously, optimizing images (e.g. CSS Sprites) and a host of other topics. It's not a thick book, but if you're interested in cutting edge client-side browser development, you can't really go wrong with this book.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
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Dissappointing,
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This review is from: Even Faster Web Sites: Performance Best Practices for Web Developers (Paperback)
I bought this book in the hope that it would deal with matters that were omitted from it's forerunner (by the same author), but I found that it was more of the same less-than-definitive guidance. I tried incorporating some of the recommendations, but found that in most cases, either no benefit resulted or the code in the book was faulty. Inevitably, the book is also somewhat out-of-date.For those of you who are thinking of purchasing this book (or the previous similar book) I would recommend that you save your money and follow the guidance that is available free of charge on the web via 'YSlow'. The author of these books was involved in the implementation of YSlow, and much of what these books contain is covered adequately in the notes that accompany YSLow or those in Google's on-line WebsiteOptimizer.
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everyone producing a web site should read this book,
This review is from: Even Faster Web Sites: Performance Best Practices for Web Developers (Paperback)
Everything is in the title.The approach is clear, each dimension of improvement for a web site is described in details. You just have to follow the path and the experience just get better
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