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Even Faster Web Sites: Performance Best Practices for Web Developers

From O'Reilly Media

Author : Steve Souders
Binding : Paperback
DeweyDecimalNumber : 006.76
EAN : 9780596522308
Edition : 1
ISBN : 0596522304
Label : O'Reilly Media
Manufacturer : O'Reilly Media
NumberOfPages : 256
ProductTypeName : ABIS_BOOK
PublicationDate : 2009-06-10
Publisher : O'Reilly Media
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Summary: After You've Mastered High Performance Web Sites
Comment: Steve Souders has been a leader in documenting and evangelizing techniques for improving web site performance, and his previous book High Performance Web Sites: Essential Knowledge for Front-End Engineers (or the web posting from which it evolved) is essential reading. Even Faster Web Sites is not an updating of that book, but a collection of additional advice from Souders and eight contributors. So the first thing to note is that you should probably only tackle this book if you've already mastered the techniques outlined in High Performance Web Sites.

The one exception to the advice above may be if you're a web developer who makes heavy use of Javascript, since over half of this book is devoted to AJAX. The remainder of the book addresses a variety of topics of interest to web development professionals in general--optimizing images, writing efficient CSS, advanced techniques for implementing gzipping, and more.

As with Souders previous book, there is little that will be new to professionals who've kept up with best practices via blogs and the like, but it's still nice to have all the information in one handy book. For those who are just starting to investigate web performance optimization, High Performance Web Sites plus Even Faster Web Sites will get you up to speed quickly.
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Summary: Take your development to the net level
Comment: 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!
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Summary: Excellent Book - Must Read For Web Developers
Comment: Going beyond the excellent work in his first book _High Performance Web Sites: Essential Knowledge for Front-End Engineers_, this book includes great information on how to parallelize Javascript, minimize images, sprite images and write your web pages so that they don't block on one element. This along with the more basic stuff in his first book, like turning on compression, has speed up our page delivery times by a factor of 50%.

Remember that every 1 second longer your page loads costs you 10% of your users and you can use this book to convince management to invest resources in speeding up your site.


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Summary: A must for every web developer
Comment: This book was referred to me by a friend. I have been browsing internet for resources that will address the performance of web in simple and easy to implement way. I did find some articles and videos on that subject. All the articles and videos were about one or two particular topics for web site optimization. This books covers the whole science of website speed and performances in detail. The book lays the foundation and tries to make us understand the stake holders and important concepts. Then it takes each aspect and covers in detail. You will get the feeling as if you knew too little in some areas.

This book gives you good understanding and solution for different types of web site. I allows us to think in more web browser perspective. We as developers have always thought of accomplishing the business requirement and not focusing on how a browser will react.

Excellent book. I recommend this to everyone. Must have for any web development shop.

Good Luck!
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Summary: A Minor Disappointment
Comment: 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.