Even Faster Web Sites
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Author(s): S. Souders
Publisher: O'Reilly
ISBN: 9780596522308
Format: softback
231pp
Price: £26.99, $34.99, €28
Review Date: 01 October 2009
Review: This is a follow-on from High Performance Web Sites, giving best practice for developers to keep up with next-generation websites. The chapters are organised into three sections: (1) JavaScript performance – this gives an understanding of Ajax performance, writing efficient JavaScript, creating responsive applications, loading scripts without blocking other components etc.; (2) Network performance – sharing resources across multiple domains; reducing image size without loss of quality and using chunked encoding to render pages faster; and (3) browser performance – alternatives to iframes, simplifying CSS selectors etc.