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There's a time bomb on the web: user patience. It starts ticking each time someone opens one of your pages. You only have a few seconds to get compelling content onto the screen. Fail, and you can kiss your customers and profits goodbye.
You can't count on fast connections either. Most of your customers are still sucking content through a 56K straw. You have to serve up greased lightning or they'll bail. That's why you picked up this book. In it you'll learn how to cut file sizes in half. You'll trim (X)HTML, CSS, graphics, JavaScript, multimedia, and bandwidth costs. Real-world examples illustrate techniques with before and after code and percentage savings. After reading this book, you'll know how to make your pages literally "pop" onto the screen.
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Speed Up Your Site: Web Site Optimization shows you how to shrink the size of your web pages and reduce their complexity for maximum speed. Not everyone has cable modems or the luxury of a T1 line. With 56.6K modems still in many households, it's increasingly important for web sites to be optimized for faster download times. Face it, consumers are impatient. By maximizing page display speed, bailout rates are reduced and bandwidth costs are minimized. The result is happier users and happier bosses. After reading this book, readers will know how to make their pages literally "pop" onto the screen. This book emphasizes valid code and languages like HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and PHP. Everything that goes into creating a web site is covered, from optimizing HTML and XHTML, to CSS, graphics, JavaScript, multimedia, and server-based techniques. Throughout the book, real-world examples illustrate the techniques discussed, with before and after code and percentage savings. Finally, 20 popular web sites are analyzed over time, reviewing how their size and complexity have changed since 1996. A companion web site, www.websiteoptimization.com, will include code examples and tutorials, site critiques, and other resources.
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