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High Performance Web Sites
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! Searc...more
Paperback, 170 pages
Published
September 18th 2007
by O'Reilly Media
(first published September 2007)
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An excellent read for anyone creating web sites. While a bit dated now, the background information and advice is nonetheless a must have for optimizing performance. While many people now use things like bundling, CSS sprites, and script placement to increase performance, they're often doing so without understanding why it helps. This book helps fill in those gaps and adds in a wealth of information about browser caching, headers, proxy considerations, etc. It's well worth the few hours it'll tak...more
Jul 29, 2012
Eric Phetteplace
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Recommends it for:
People who build enterprise websites
Shelves:
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A good overview of building performant websites, especially the first few chapters. Souders' book is essential primarily because no one else has published a competing work that does such a thorough overview of web performance. I particularly liked the focus on the network layer as that's the piece I know the least about, so learning about caching & HTTP headers was very useful.
Some the advice may be a bit outdated; the number of parallel downloads allowed in browsers has certainly changed &...more
Some the advice may be a bit outdated; the number of parallel downloads allowed in browsers has certainly changed &...more
Amazing! a must read book for all web developers and a real eye opener on front end performance.
This book suggests a lot of solutions to real- world problem issues. This book with "High performance Web Sites" recommendations will have huge impact on the performance of any Web Site.
It's really a very interesting reading, from the first to the last page!
Thanks to everybody who contributed in writing this great book
This book suggests a lot of solutions to real- world problem issues. This book with "High performance Web Sites" recommendations will have huge impact on the performance of any Web Site.
It's really a very interesting reading, from the first to the last page!
Thanks to everybody who contributed in writing this great book
An excellent resource on how to wring better performance out of a website.
Souders provides a series of ideas and approaches based upon his experiences. Further, I found it well written and highly readable. He knows how to present ideas while not dragging the reader into a morass of irrelevant detail.
I highly recommend that anyone responsible for a website read this book.
Souders provides a series of ideas and approaches based upon his experiences. Further, I found it well written and highly readable. He knows how to present ideas while not dragging the reader into a morass of irrelevant detail.
I highly recommend that anyone responsible for a website read this book.
I remember when I first started using the Internet. Dial ups were extremely slow at the time, so I’d type in a URL, then go make a sandwich. By the time I came back, hopefully the page would be loaded.
Today, we expect more. Often if a page takes more than a few moments to load, I don’t bother. I tend to equate professional with quick. If a site doesn’t load quickly or if parts of the page are slow, I naturally assume that the information provided might be as shabbily compiled. I simply move ont...more
Today, we expect more. Often if a page takes more than a few moments to load, I don’t bother. I tend to equate professional with quick. If a site doesn’t load quickly or if parts of the page are slow, I naturally assume that the information provided might be as shabbily compiled. I simply move ont...more
This is a must-read for anyone that ever touches a website. There's tips for front-end people, back-end people, and ops. Even the introduction blew my mind.
This will make you want to tear down every website you've ever built and make it as efficient as possible, even if it only gets four views a month.
This will make you want to tear down every website you've ever built and make it as efficient as possible, even if it only gets four views a month.
Need-to-know knowledge about we site performance, in a very compact form. On the other hand, much of this book has been distilled into the YSLOW tool suite, and a thorough sift through its documentation and some experimentation make reading the book kind of redundant.
This book is straightforward and definitely worth reading if you haven't encountered any of the ideas he presents (such as minification, gzip, and expires headers) before. It is critical for web developers to be aware of the topics he presents.
(140 pages)
.. whenever I see an O'Reilly book I tend to pick it up and buy it. Such crucial information made very accessible. If you are a webmaster of a site that is rapidly growing you should definitely read this and keep it with you.
.. whenever I see an O'Reilly book I tend to pick it up and buy it. Such crucial information made very accessible. If you are a webmaster of a site that is rapidly growing you should definitely read this and keep it with you.
This book is showing its age a bit, most of this content seems to be common knowledge these days.
Still, a good review and explanation of some of the most common techniques.
Still, a good review and explanation of some of the most common techniques.
molto illuminante , ed anche piuttosto pratico, ma da questo punto di vista, è più che altro un'estensione teorica a strumenti come YSlow e Google Speed
This is a *fantastic* book. A must read for anyone involved in web programming.
Outstanding book, I consider it the first huge step into web performance optimization
Every web developer, frontend and back, should probably read this book.
great book, one day of pure new things to learn.
Really liked this book. I learned a lot from it.
This book provides 14 ways to speed up how a page renders itself in a browser. Many of the techniques presented are trivial to implement, and most of them have little in the way of significant drawbacks. As code optimization is often an exercise in fabricating a sufficient complexity of rope in order to hang one's self, it was refreshing to find simple means of improving performance.
At less than 150 pages High Performance Web Sites leaves little reason to ignore looking into this subject if you...more
At less than 150 pages High Performance Web Sites leaves little reason to ignore looking into this subject if you...more
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Really good book.
I would probably give this book a higher rating except that the information contained is already so available online, and in the author's invaluable YSlow FireBug plugin. I had hoped for lengthier explanations beyond what is already found online, and was surprised by the only ~120 pages of the book.
That said, the information contained is very accurate and useful. It is nice to have a hard copy of the data found in YSlow.
That said, the information contained is very accurate and useful. It is nice to have a hard copy of the data found in YSlow.
a real eye-opener and tremendous shift in web optimization. Very practical, straight to the point and valuable. You cannot consider yourself a web developer if you haven't read this book and totally understand it. You can read the whole book over the week end, go and get it :)
You think you're an expert in web development! wait till you read this book!
You think you're an expert in web development! wait till you read this book!
If you've ever made even a small webpage, you'd be happy to read that book. Very straight to the point advices, with hard numbers and real-life proofs. Of course this kind of knowledge is ephemeral, as things evolve and change from day to day - but that makes it even more important for you, to read it as soon as possible.
A so well explained text, that certainly I'll buy the second part: Even Faster Web Sites: Performance Best Practices for Web Developers.
A must read for any web developer. It's an easy but extremely informative read, revealing a lot of non-intuitive optimization tips. Steve is the creator of the YSlow plugin, and perhaps the leading expert in this field.
Essential reading for all web developers. I can't recommend this highly enough - with most developers focus on back-end optimisation, this book clearly shows that there are significant gains to be achieved on the front-end.
Most of the stuff I already knew but it was still in interesting read. If I am every part of building a major site from scratch again, I know the majority of stuff I need to know to keep the front end efficient.
Is there anything as beautiful as a well crafted website? Great book with extremely concrete points that (nearly) any web programmer can follow to improve their website's front-end performance.
Faster! Faster!
Great reference for Front-end developers on how important it is to minimize http requests, and the organization of your code to make your pages load faster.
Great reference for Front-end developers on how important it is to minimize http requests, and the organization of your code to make your pages load faster.
Not much information you can't get from the freely available Yslow recommendations. There is a little bit of extra flavor though and it's nice to have it in book form.
This book makes me a chick magnet.
You should see the stares I get at the coffed
shop while reading this.
You should see the stares I get at the coffed
shop while reading this.
Lots of good information. The breakdowns of the most popular websites on the web show some good insights.
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