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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 006.76
EAN: 9780596529307
Edition: illustrated edition
ISBN: 0596529309
Label: O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Manufacturer: O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 168
Publication Date: September 11, 2007
Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Studio: O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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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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By the title, I expected this book to cover configuring Apache, MySQL, PHP, Memcache, etc for high performance. Instead, this book covers optimization of client side code. The chapters appear to coincidence with Yahoo's YSlow plugin for Firefox (http://developer.yahoo.com/yslow/).
Although it wasn't particularly useful for me, this would be an essential reference for a newbie web developer who is not sure about things like headers, Content Deliver Networks (CDN), or things of that nature.
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There can be little dispute that the information contained in this very thin volume is of great value to anyone interested in website optimization.
Your site could benefit greatly by putting into practice the '14 performance rules' espoused in this book. You will learn abut the importance of making fewer HTTP requests, reducing DNS lookups, minifying javascript, avoiding redirects and other important "rules".
The book is written in a very authoritative manner. Whether you will actually be able to implement -all- the rules is doubtful as some of the rules are extremely technical in nature and execution. Creating CSS Sprite Images, for instance, is not something many people would be able to execute, nor is minifying javascript or using a Content Delivery Network. Some of the rules are geared towards large websites backed by companies with pockets deep enough to finance the solutions suggested by the rules.
The main problem I have with this book is the ... Read More
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This book is like the dictionary of Web Site Performance. This is a great book to have on your shelf and pull out as a reference. I got halfway through and realized I had read most of the content already when parsing through the ySlow application documentation. Also, much of this information is available online, but it is nice to have the book to refer to when you are working on a specific problem.
There are so many ideas here that implementing them all at the same time will be nearly impossible for most people. I like having the book so I can pull it off the shelf in a few months and read my underlining and dog-eared pages so keeps Steve's ideas and my own in one place.
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Starts out with some decent information, and then slowly degrades as it goes on. Very repetitive, the author makes it pretty clear he has a minimum page requirement. There are some better O'Reilly books that would serve the same purpose more effectively. Definitely not worth the money.
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Every few often there comes a book that's so impactful that it influences the rest of your career; this is one of them. It was especially revealing to learn that front-end engineering is where the biggest bang for the buck is in terms of optimizing your site.
It's great how this book is in distilling the best optimizations to do for a website into 14 simple rules, that doesn't take up hundreds of pages; it really speaks volumes to the author's writing ability.
It's also an added bonus that the author provides the free tool YSlow to help analyzing your website. Overall I'm really glad I read this book :).
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