As an important follow-up to O’Reilly’s bestselling High Performance Web Sites, this second edition offers additional rules for speeding up web page loading and responsiveness. High Performance Web Sites demonstrated that 80% of the time it takes for a web page to load is due to inefficient browser activity, and the book provided 14 rules to cut 20% to 25% off the response time. Now, Even Faster Web Sites presents 15 more rules that author Steve Souders has developed from his work as web operations manager at Yahoo! and Google. Completely practical, and easy to understand and apply, the rules in this book show you how to shave precious seconds off display and response times for web pages. Even Faster Web Sites includes contributions from guest authors on hot-button issues such as dynamic JavaScript, event handling, and images.
About the Author
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.
Book Details
- Paperback: 254 pages
- Publisher: O’Reilly Media, Inc. (June 18, 2009)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0596522304
- ISBN-13: 978-0596522308
- File Size: 2.5 MiB
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