High Performance Web Sites
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This highly streamlined text doesn't have a "Who Should Read this Book" section but I guess it should be obvious that anyone who designs websites for a living needs to read it. "High Performance Web Sites" is literally a list of 14 steps (one chapter per step) on techniques you can use to get your web pages to load more quickly and generally improve the performance of your sites on the web. The author has the qualifications to write such a book with authority. He's responsible for performance management at Yahoo! You'd have to assume he knows what he's talking about.
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The Preface contains all of the introductory information regarding the subject of website performance to get the reader warmed up for what
comes next. Then, Rule 1 starts in Chapter 1 which in this case is "Make Fewer HTTP Requests". Souders wastes no time (he doesn't have it to
waste with only 168 pages to play with in the entire book) but launches into this mini-tutorial (eleven pages for Chapter 1) at rocket-speed.
He provides references for all of the code examples used in the chapter directly in the text and cites highly trafficked sites (Amazon, CNN,
Google, and of course, Yahoo) in terms of the concepts and practices he's illustrating. Don't blink, or you'll miss the end of this chapter
and the beginning of the next one. Full Story |
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