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Performance is critical to the success of any web site, and yet today’s web applications push browsers to their limits with increasing amounts of rich content and heavy use of Ajax. In this book, Steve Souders, web performance evangelist at Google and former Chief Performance Yahoo!, provides valuable techniques to help you optimize your site’s performance. Souders’ previous book, the bestselling High Performance Web Sites, shocked the web development world by reve… More >>
Even Faster Web Sites: Performance Best Practices for Web Developers
#1 by Joseph S. Strazzere on May 31, 2010 - 10:52 am
After really liking Steve Souders’ “High Performance Web Sites: Essential Knowledge for Front-End Engineers”, I really wanted to like his latest offering “Even Faster Web Sites: Performance Best Practices for Web Developers”. I liked it, but not nearly as much.
While “High Performance Web Sites” is centered around Souders’ “14 Rules” for better web performance, “Even Faster Web Sites” isn’t rule-oriented. Instead, it is organized into the three areas of JavaScript performance, network performance, and browser performance. And six of the fourteen chapters were written by contributing authors, rather than by Sounders himself.
All this adds up to a somewhat uneven, and less widely applicable, set of ideas.
A good book, but still a minor disappointment.
Rating: 3 / 5
#2 by Mark Rall on May 31, 2010 - 11:21 am
There’s stuff in here you may not have thought about as well as things you have where you want an expert opinion. Great read!
Rating: 5 / 5
#3 by Mostafa farghaly on May 31, 2010 - 1:14 pm
An important note is that this book isn’t 2nd edition of O’Reilly high performance web sites, it’s totally new book starts where O’Reilly high performance web sites finishs, it contain new researches, techniques and best practiceses, written by web front-end performance guru Steve Souders and co-authored by well known experets: Chapter1 about Ajax performance and performance wisdom written by Douglas Crockford the discoverer of JSON data interchange format and JavaScript architect at Yahoo . Chapter2 about responsiveness, threading and latency written by the guys of Ajaxian blog Dion Almaer and Ben Galbraith. Chapter3 about defering the load of unused functions and libs and spliting the intial payload written by Steve Souders. Chapter4 about loading scripts without blocking techniques and the benefits of each technique and its effect on user experience like busy indicators and browser behavior of ordered execution. Chapter5 about coupling async loaded scripts with inline script techniques and the benefir of each and its uses in real world libs like Dojo and YUI loader. Chapter6 about positioning inline elements and its blocking behaviour and how to overcome this. Chapter7 about effecient performant JavaScript best practices written by Nicholas Zakas the Author of Wrox JavaScript for web developers. Chapter8 about Comet a.k.a reverse ajax performance written by Dylan Schiemann the CEO of sitepen and the cofounder of DoJo. Chapter9 about how to enhance performance of the users who can’t take advantage of Gzipping by Tony Gentilcore, software engineer at google. Chapter10 about Optimizaing images written by nichole sullivan the author of Object Oriented CSS and Stoyan stefanov the author of Packet Object Oriented JavaScript and both work at yahoo. Chapter 11 Sgarding Dominamt domains, Chapter 12 Flushing Document early, Chpater13 using iframes sparingly, Chapter14 simlifying CSS selectors performance all by Steve Souders and at the end of the book performance tools reference . after all it’s a must read book for front end engineers and any one want to make even faster web sites .
Rating: 5 / 5
#4 by Douglas Crockford on May 31, 2010 - 2:20 pm
Chapter 1. Understanding Ajax Performance, Douglas Crockford.
Chapter 2. Creating Responsive Web Applications, Ben Galbraith and Dion Almaer.
Chapter 3. Splitting the Initial Payload.
Chapter 4. Loading Scripts Without Blocking.
Chapter 5. Coupling Asynchronous Scripts.
Chapter 6. Positioning Inline Scripts.
Chapter 7. Writing Efficient JavaScript, Nicholas C. Zakas.
Chapter 8. Scaling with Comet, Dylan Schiemann.
Chapter 9. Going Beyond Gzipping, Tony Gentilcore.
Chapter 10. Optimizing Images, Stoyan Stefanov and Nicole Sullivan.
Chapter 11. Sharding Dominant Domains.
Chapter 12. Flushing the Document Early.
Chapter 13. Using Iframes Sparingly.
Chapter 14. Simplifying CSS Selectors.
Appendix. Performance Tools.
Rating: 5 / 5
#5 by Scott Galloway on May 31, 2010 - 2:51 pm
This, along with the previous book is truly an essential for any web developer. Get it, read it, live it.
Rating: 5 / 5