Web Performance in Action : Building Faster Web Pages (Edition 1) (Paperback)

Name: Web Performance in Action : Building Faster Web Pages (Edition 1) (Paperback)
Brand: Jeremy Wagner
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Web Performance in Action is your companion guide to making websites faster. You'll learn techniques that speed the delivery of your site's assets to the user, increase rendering speed, decrease the overall footprint of your site, as well as how to build a workflow that automates common optimization techniques.

Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications.

About the Technology

Nifty features, hip design, and clever marketing are great, but your website will flop if visitors think it's slow. Network conditions can be unpredictable, and with today's sites being bigger than ever, you need to set yourself apart from the competition by focusing on speed. Achieving a high level of performance is a combination of front-end architecture choices, best practices, and some clever sleight-of-hand. This book will demystify all these topics for you.

About the Book

Web Performance in Action is your guide to making fast websites. Packed with "Aha!" moments and critical details, this book teaches you how to create performant websites the right way. You'll master optimal rendering techniques, tips for decreasing your site's footprint, and technologies like HTTP/2 that take your website's speed from merely adequate to seriously fast. Along the way, you'll learn how to create an automated workflow to accomplish common optimization tasks and speed up development in the process.

What's Inside

Foolproof performance-boosting techniques
Optimizing images and fonts
HTTP/2 and how it affects your optimization workflow

About the Reader

This book assumes that you're familiar with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Many examples make use of Git and Node.js.

About the Author

Jeremy Wagner is a professional front-end web developer with over ten years of experience. Foreword by Ethan Marcotte.

Table of Contents

Understanding web performance
Using assessment tools
Optimizing CSS
Understanding critical CSS
Making images responsive
Going further with images
Faster fonts
Keeping JavaScript lean and fast
Boosting performance with service workers
Fine-tuning asset delivery
Looking to the future with HTTP/2
Automating optimization with gulp

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Paperback
Fiction/nonfiction
Non-Fiction
Genre
Computing & Internet
Pub date
20170116
Pages
376
Edition
1

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9781617293771. New condition. Trade paperback. Language: English. Pages: 376. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 376 p. Contains: Illustrations. DESCRIPTION As an increasing number of users access websites from mobile networks, optimization is becoming a crucial part of the user experience. To succeed, the delivery of content must be optimized. There is also a need to stay focused on aspects that can impact website speed, such as conservation of bandwidth, overall content delivery speed and responsiveness. Web Performance in Action teaches web optimization as a discipline. The book begins with explaining the importance of optimized websites, and the impact of site speed on users. As the book progresses, readers learn how to optimize CSS, JavaScript, images, and fonts. By the end of the book, readers should be able to apply these techniques to their web development projects, and develop an automated workflow that incorporates this newfound knowledge. KEY FEATURES * Creating better user experiences * Real-world techniques that can be immediately applied * Foundational optimization practices such as minification and compression * Optimizing images to save bandwidth * Optimal handling of fonts * Automating an optimal workflow with Grunt AUDIENCE This book assumes readers are familiar with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. ABOUT THE TECHNOLOGY At its core, optimized websites improve upon the user experience. By making sites faster, you're improving the user experience by speeding up the delivery of content. Optimized sites are also more responsive, scale better, and save you money by using less bandwidth.

Foolproof performance-boosting techniques
Optimizing images and fonts
HTTP/2 and how it affects your optimization workflow

Understanding web performance
Using assessment tools
Optimizing CSS
Understanding critical CSS
Making images responsive
Going further with images
Faster fonts
Keeping JavaScript lean and fast
Boosting performance with service workers
Fine-tuning asset delivery
Looking to the future with HTTP/2
Automating optimization with gulp

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Paperback

Fiction/nonfiction

Non-Fiction

Genre

Computing & Internet

Pub date

20170116

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