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High Performance Web Sites: Essential Knowledge for Front-End Engineers |  | Author: Steve Souders
Publisher: O'Reilly Media
Category: Book
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Media: Paperback
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Pages: 176
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Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 6.8 x 0.4
ISBN: 0596529309
Dewey Decimal Number: 006.76
EAN: 9780596529307
ASIN: 0596529309
Publication Date: September 11, 2007
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Product Description
Want your web site to display more quickly? This book presents 14 specific rules that will cut 25% to 50% off response time when users request a page. Author Steve Souders, in his job as Chief Performance Yahoo!, collected these best practices while optimizing some of the most-visited pages on the Web. Even sites that had already been highly optimized, such as Yahoo! Search and the Yahoo! Front Page, were able to benefit from these surprisingly simple performance guidelines. The rules in High Performance Web Sites explain how you can optimize the performance of the Ajax, CSS, JavaScript, Flash, and images that you've already built into your site -- adjustments that are critical for any rich web application. Other sources of information pay a lot of attention to tuning web servers, databases, and hardware, but the bulk of display time is taken up on the browser side and by the communication between server and browser. High Performance Web Sites covers every aspect of that process. Each performance rule is supported by specific examples, and code snippets are available on the book's companion web site. The rules include how to:
- Make Fewer HTTP Requests
- Use a Content Delivery Network
- Add an Expires Header
- Gzip Components
- Put Stylesheets at the Top
- Put Scripts at the Bottom
- Avoid CSS Expressions
- Make JavaScript and CSS External
- Reduce DNS Lookups
- Minify JavaScript
- Avoid Redirects
- Remove Duplicates Scripts
- Configure ETags
- Make Ajax Cacheable
If you're building pages for high traffic destinations and want to optimize the experience of users visiting your site, this book is indispensable. "If everyone would implement just 20% of Steve's guidelines, the Web would be a dramatically better place. Between this book and Steve's YSlow extension, there's really no excuse for having a sluggish web site anymore." -Joe Hewitt, Developer of Firebug debugger and Mozilla's DOM Inspector "Steve Souders has done a fantastic job of distilling a massive, semi-arcane art down to a set of concise, actionable, pragmatic engineering steps that will change the world of web performance." -Eric Lawrence, Developer of the Fiddler Web Debugger, Microsoft Corporation
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 lacks content April 23, 2010
charles (usa)
0 out of 4 found this review helpful
The book lacks content. Fortunately the author arranges the book from most important first, to least important last. I am at page 30 and am struggling to stay awake. So far I have learned nothing from this book that I didn't already know. That means that the rest of the book will be useless to read. I will return the book at the earliest possible opportunity.
 Yes, worth it April 14, 2010
J. Fox (Ohio, OH, US)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Everyone that is involved with creating or maintaining websites should read this book. Contained within the pages are important concepts everyone should be aware of, from designers to developers to IT folks and project managers.
The book is not very thick; it is an easy read and easy to understand.
Easy cheap tricks to improving your site March 18, 2010
Patrick (Des Moines, WA, United States)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
In this book Souders presents 14 rules that will cut the response time of a site by up to 50%. Steve Souders, Chief Performance Yahoo!, discovered these best practices while optimizing one of the highest traffic sites on the internet.
Unlike other books that focus on server side optimizations, this book focuses on client side performance improvements for Ajax, CSS, JavaScript, and images. Souders focuses on client side optimizations because the bulk of display time is in communications between the browser and the server. High Performance Web Sites provides specific examples and code snippets for the following 14 rules:
Make Fewer HTTP Requests
Use a Content Delivery Network
Add an Expires Header
Gzip Components
Put Stylesheets at the Top
Put Scripts at the Bottom
Avoid CSS Expressions
Make JavaScript and CSS External
Reduce DNS Lookups
Minify JavaScript
Avoid Redirects
Remove Duplicates Scripts
Configure ETags
Make Ajax Cacheable
I recommend this book to anyone interested in improving the performance of their website on a budget. The majority of these rules take very little time or money to implement. I've already added the YSlow extension to my FireBug extension in Firefox to start testing my site. I'm interested to find out what new information Steve Souders discusses in Even Faster Web Sites: Performance Best Practices for Web Developers, his second book.
 Poses problems but few solutions and/or tools March 9, 2010
mind dump
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
Really thought this would help. He seems to have a good handle on the rules. But the solutions and tools area is lacking. Plus there is little if any emphasis on IIS.
If you work on the web, and haven't read this, you're doing it wrong January 2, 2010
E. Caron (Minneapolis, MN USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Steve Souders is an absolute genius. He generously shares his knowledge, in digestible tidbits, and structures everything so that its easy to grasp a complex topic (front-end website optimization) in a very reasonable amount of time.
Whenever I hire someone for web development, I make them read this book before doing a single line of code. Whether you're a CSS designer who never does back-end work, or a Ruby on Rails guru who'd never dream of opening Photoshop/Gimp, this book strikes a common chord that all web developers need to understand.
Of the scores of computer books that I've read, none of them has resonated so much and for so long as this book. My websites are better because of it, and everyone that I've lent this book to says that same thing.
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