High Performance Web Sites - Steve Souders

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Auteur(s) : Steve Souders

Editeur : O'reilly Media, Inc.

Langue : Anglais

Parution : 01/10/2007

Nombre de pages : 168

Expédition : 287

Dimensions : 23.3 x 17.7 x 1.2

ISBN : 0636920529309

Biographie:

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.

Sommaire:
Praise for High Performance Web Sites; Foreword; Preface; How This Book Is Organized; Conventions Used in This Book; Code Examples; Comments and Questions; Safari? Books Online; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1: The Importance of Frontend Performance; 1.1 Tracking Web Page Performance; 1.2 Where Does the Time Go?; 1.3 The Performance Golden Rule; Chapter 2: HTTP Overview; 2.1 Compression; 2.2 Conditional GET Requests; 2.3 Expires; 2.4 Keep-Alive; 2.5 There's More; Chapter 3: Rule 1: Make Fewer HTTP Requests; 3.1 Image Maps; 3.2 CSS Sprites; 3.3 Inline Images; 3.4 Combined Scripts and Stylesheets; 3.5 Conclusion; Chapter 4: Rule 2: Use a Content Delivery Network; 4.1 Content Delivery Networks; 4.2 The Savings; Chapter 5: Rule 3: Add an Expires Header; 5.1 Expires Header; 5.2 Max-Age and mod_expires; 5.3 Empty Cache vs. Primed Cache; 5.4 More Than Just Images; 5.5 Revving Filenames; 5.6 Examples; Chapter 6: Rule 4: Gzip Components; 6.1 How Compression Works; 6.2 What to Compress; 6.3 The Savings; 6.4 Configuration; 6.5 Proxy Caching; 6.6 Edge Cases; 6.7 Gzip in Action; Chapter 7: Rule 5: Put Stylesheets at the Top; 7.1 Progressive Rendering; 7.2 sleep.cgi; 7.3 Blank White Screen; 7.4 Flash of Unstyled Content; 7.5 What's a Frontend Engineer to Do?; Chapter 8: Rule 6: Put Scripts at the Bottom; 8.1 Problems with Scripts; 8.2 Parallel Downloads; 8.3 Scripts Block Downloads; 8.4 Worst Case: Scripts at the Top; 8.5 Best Case: Scripts at the Bottom; 8.6 Putting It in Perspective; Chapter 9: Rule 7: Avoid CSS Expressions; 9.1 Updating Expressions; 9.2 Working Around the Problem; 9.3 Conclusion; Chapter 10: Rule 8: Make JavaScript and CSS External; 10.1 Inline vs. External; 10.2 Typical Results in the Field; 10.3 Home Pages; 10.4 The Best of Both Worlds; Chapter 11: Rule 9: Reduce DNS Lookups; 11.1 DNS Caching and TTLs; 11.2 The Browser's Perspective; 11.3 Reducing DNS Lookups; Chapter 12: Rule 10: Minify JavaScript; 12.1 Minification; 12.2 Obfuscation; 12.3 The Savings; 12.4 Examples; 12.5 Icing on the Cake; Chapter 13: Rule 11: Avoid Redirects; 13.1 Types of Redirects; 13.2 How Redirects Hurt Performance; 13.3 Alternatives to Redirects; Chapter 14: Rule 12: Remove Duplicate Scripts; 14.1 Duplicate Scripts-They Happen; 14.2 Duplicate Scripts Hurt Performance; 14.3 Avoiding Duplicate Scripts; Chapter 15: Rule 13: Configure ETags; 15.1 What's an ETag?; 15.2 The Problem with ETags; 15.3 ETags: Use 'Em or Lose 'Em; 15.4 ETags in the Real World; Chapter 16: Rule 14: Make Ajax Cacheable; 16.1 Web 2.0, DHTML, and Ajax; 16.2 Asynchronous = Instantaneous?; 16.3 Optimizing Ajax Requests; 16.4 Caching Ajax in the Real World; Chapter 17: Deconstructing 10 Top Sites; 17.1 Page Weight, Response Time, YSlow Grade; 17.2 How the Tests Were Done; 17.3 Amazon; 17.4 AOL; 17.5 CNN; 17.6 eBay; 17.7 Google; 17.8 MSN; 17.9 MySpace; 17.10 Wikipedia; 17.11 Yahoo!; 17.12 YouTube; Colophon;