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1 online resource |
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text file |
| Note |
"Because web performance simply matters"--Cover |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Lean Websites; Table of Contents; Preface; Who Should Read This Book; Conventions Used; Code Samples; Tips, Notes, and Warnings; Supplementary Materials; Acknowledgements; Want to take your learning further?; Performance Simply Matters; A Lean Website; The Psychology of Speed; What Is "Too Slow", and When Do Websites "Feel" Slow?; Maister's First Law of Service; Satisfaction; Perception; Expectations; Abandonment Rate: When Your Users Decide to Leave; Response Time; Speed Matters: Everybody Cares, Even Google; Cool Down; User Experience and Performance; Warm Up; UX Principles. |
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Information Architecture and WireframesDesign for Performance; Perceived and Preemptive Web Performance; The Performance Point System; Measurable Performance Modules; Case Study: Time Magazine Website; Current Performant Order Based on MDMs; Suggested Performant Order based on MDMs; Cool Down; Measuring & Monitoring Performance; Warm Up; Measuring Performance; HTTP Archive: Tracking Performance Trends; Useful Performance Tools; Browser-based Developer Tools; Resource Waterfall; WebPagetest; Dedicated Perceived Performance Metrics; Above Fold Time; Speed Index; PageSpeed. |
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Anatomy of an HTTP TransactionUnpredictable Side Effects: Connection Speed, Bandwidth and Latency; Bandwidth and Latency; Last Mile Latency; Monitoring Performance; Synthetic Measurements; WebPagetest; Result Page; WPT's Waterfall; Domain and Content Breakdown; Unique ID; PageSpeed Insights; Browser Extensions and Plugins; Advanced Analytical and Programming Tools; The Power to Query = Big Query + HTTP Archive; APIs; Real User Monitoring; Navigation Timing; Resource Timing; Free RUM Tools; Boomerang; Google Analytics; A/B Testing; Comparing RUM and Synthetic; Cool Down. |
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Performance Boot Camp SetupWarm Up; Measure First, Then Optimize Towards a Goal; Your Website's Waterfall; Performance Monitoring: Set up Your Performance Dashboard; Create Your Private HTTP Archive; How Big Is the Biggest Image?; What Is the Slowest Page?; What Pages Exceed 200 Requests Per Page?; Create Your Private RUM Tests; Set Up Alerts; Google Analytics; Pingdom; CopperEgg; Set up a Performance Budget; Competitive Comparison; Create Business Hypotheses and Prove Them; List and Commit to Your Performance Metrics; Cool Down; Mastering Lean HTTP Requests; Warm Up. |
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Understanding How the Browser WorksCritical Rendering Path; Optimizing the Critical Rendering Path; Follow the 14KB Rule; Reducing HTTP Requests; (Smart) Concatenation; CSS; JavaScript; Conditional Loading; Tools; Image Spriting; Optimizing HTTP Requests; Minifying; Tools; Pre-browsing; rel=dns-prefetch -- rel=subresource -- rel=prefetch -- rel=prerender -- Browser Support; Cool Down; Producing Lean Web Assets: Part 1; Warm Up; Optimizing HTML; Keeping Things Tidy; Further Tips on Optimizing HTML Files; Optimizing CSS; Lean CSS; CSS Optimization Tools; Optimizing JavaScript. |
| Summary |
A practical book on website performance for web developers, concentrating mainly on front-end performance improvement. It covers plenty of solid theory, but is also packed with useful, real world hints and tips that you can use on your sites today. Topics covered include: User experience, design and performance Measuring and monitoring performance Setting up a page weight budget Network and server improvements Optimizing images and video Optimizing scripts and third party content Lean DOM operations The book also comes with a handy "cheat sheet" summarizing many of the key tips contained within the book |
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English. |
| Subject |
Web sites -- Design.
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Web sites -- Performance.
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Sites Web -- Conception. |
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Web sites -- Design |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Bermes, Barbara. Lean websites. Victoria, Australia : Sitepoint Pty. Ltd., [2015] 9780992279462 (OCoLC)886487961 |
| ISBN |
9781457192913 (electronic bk.) |
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1457192918 (electronic bk.) |
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0992279461 |
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9780992279462 |
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9781457192883 |
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1457192888 |
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